Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Shipping; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Packet ALBERTA No.3 unloading bales of cotton. ALBERTA No.3, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (145 ft. x 28 ft. x 3.6 ft.), was built in 1884 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by A. B. Smith, ALBERTA No.3 on...
Barges; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men riding wooden barge named "Maud" down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana in 1900. Stern wheel packet ALMA is under construction at the bank of the river. ALMA (Way #0189),...
The Howards' Haynes-Apperson motor carriage, probably built in 1897-1898, parked on the lawn of the mansion at 1029 East Market Street in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Another view of this car is in image ULPA 1986.90.0979.
Ferries; Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
It appears the photographer labeled two of these three images "B.J. Ferry" and the other "J.B.", but no other information is available. They may have been sister ships built around the same time, or they may actually be the same...
Barges; Launchings; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Small barge is launched onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Sidewheel steamer INDIANA (Way #2754) is under construction at the riverbank.
Barges; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men ride a transfer barge hull down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The JULIEN POYDRAS is being disassembled at the bank down river from the launch.
A girl with long hair wearing a white, or light-colored, dress poses in a swing suspended from a tree. The girl is believed to be the photographer's niece, Elizabeth Matthews, who was the real-life model for the character Betty Lewis in the Little...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
BIG KANAWHA, on the Ohio River near Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. A stern wheel packet with a wood hull (152 ft. x 30 ft. x 4.5 ft.), BIG KANAWHA was built at Madison, Indiana in 1887. Owned by Captain Marlin Brown,...
Charlotte Matthews and her daughter Florence lounge in a two hammocks under the trees at Clovercroft, the Matthews' family estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Two other Matthews children, Jessie and Edward, are sitting on the ground. Jessie has...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
COL. A. MACKENZIE, a side-wheel snag-boat (160 ft. x 33 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she initially operated on the upper Mississippi River. When Captain David Tipton died at her wheel in Lake...
Character portrait of actor Daniel Sully in costume for the role of Father John Whalen in the drama "The Parish Priest," of which there is no record of a Macauley's Theatre performance. He wears the black jacket, shirt, and white clerical...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); Portrait photographs; College presidents; African Americans
Back of the photograph reads "Dr. P---ce President." Probably Dr. Charles Lee Purce, president of State University from 1894-1905. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
E.T. SLIDER, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (110 ft. x 24 ft. x 3.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by Slider Sand & Gravel Co., she operated in the Louisville area until she was dismantled in 1914.
A tree-lined drive leads to Locust, a country estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Two small stone pillars stand at the entrance, each connected to a white rail fence. Main sections of the house are believed to have been built around 1800, making it...
University of Louisville. Medical Dept.; Medical students; Teachers
University of Louisville medical department 1900 - Composite photograph for the University of Louisville school of medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students for the medical school class of 1900. Individual oval-shaped...
