Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map showing, in blue, the areas of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes Street Index on recto, and description of the flood, chart of elevations of the Ohio River during floods dating back to 1832,...
A little girl sits in a chair near a large window. The room is decorated for Christmas with a tree that has tinsel, bulbs, and lights on it. Under the tree is nature scene and next to it is a miniature village scene surrounded by a toy train. There...
A series of boats are docked along the Ohio River. One is the from the Rose Island Excursion Company. The next is from the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company which has a sign indicating, "Up river boats leave week days except Saturdays...
A young child, Alice Hanlon, faces a strange-looking inanimate creature atop a base reading "Cant [sic] You Talk." This scene, from the Hanlons' "Fantasma, or Funny Frolics in Fairy Land," appears within a five-sided shape...
Dredges; Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
According to the photographer's notes, "Cincinnati dredge on grade." Presumably this is the Cincinnati dredge that was launched in 1908 from Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana, and the sternwheeler under...
Buildings; Restaurants; Bars; Vienna Model Bakery & Restaurant (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 133-135 S. Fourth Street (Building no longer exists.) The Vienna Bakery and Restaurant was founded by German immigrant Frank L. Erpeldinger in 1893 and operated as one of downtown Louisville's premiere dining establishments until 1927....
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969) . The classical façade of the Rialto made extensive use of white-glazed terra cotta tile from Cincinnati's Rookwood Pottery. This scene shows some of the machinery used in the construction as well...
Address: Waterfront, Louisville, Kentucky. Men haul nets as two horses stand waiting. The horses are attached to a cart that says "Standard Oil Co." on the side. A pallet near the water includes a Coca-Cola box. A steamboat on the Ohio...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ARTHUR HIDER, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (163 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1898. Owned by Mississippi River Commission, the tugboat operated on the lower Mississippi River until 1935 when she was sold to A. O. Kirschner...
College administrators; Students; Basketball players; Events; University of Louisville--Sports; University of Louisville--Basketball; Miller Information Technology Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Assistant deans of women and men at the "Big Red Day" pep rally held on the patio on the south side of University Center take a refreshment break. Faculty Members at Pep Rally as Part of "Big Red Day" for the Cincinnati...
At least three railroad cars in front of a set of white buildings. A faint outline of a mountain is visible in the background. Four men stand next to the train, with a fence on the other side, and at least one man stands at the back of the engine...
Bear Pitts at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio. Four people are sitting on a bench while another man stands in front of the Bear Pitts. Title supplied by cataloger.
Brownsboro Road, intersection of Kentucky US Highway 42 toward Cincinnati and Kentucky Highway 22 toward Crestwood. Person walking, on right toward background of image. Title supplied by cataloger.
Big Four Bridge; Rivers; Steamboats; Men; Women; Carriages & coaches; Boathouses; Piers & wharves; Waterfronts
Busy dock on the Ohio River. Three wharfboats line the shore and the City of Cincinnati steamboat is docked behind them. The City of Cincinnati steamboat traveled daily between Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky. Several people and a horse...
Busy dock on the Ohio River. Three wharfboats line the shore and two steamboats are docked behind them. The larger of the two boats is the City of Cincinnati steamboat which traveled daily between Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Ky. Several people...
Character portrait of left profile of actress Mary Anderson wearing a white shawl around her shoulders and a crown of laurels around her head. Mary Anderson is the stage name of Mme. de Navarro. Born in 1859, she made her stage debut at Macauley's...
Character portrait of left profile of young woman wearing a tam and a dark dress with a bow at the collar. She is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed at Macauley's Theatre in "Natural Gas" in...
Character portrait of stage and screen actor Alphonse (sometimes spelled Alphonz) Ethier in costume as Ben Hur, a role he performed at Macauley's Theatre in March 1905. He wears a helmet, chain metal vest, short tunic, and Roman sandals. Ethier was...
Children riding and exiting a toboggan slide on a lake at Chester Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. Only the end of the slide is visible; a pair of children are seen riding on a toboggan near the bottom. A large, apparently wood, building with porches and...
