Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map, printed in green in on white paper, of the area of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes description of the flood, chart of elevations and depths of selected sites in Louisville, two photographs of...
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Concrete mixer hull on grade at Howard Shipyard. This is one of two concrete mixer hulls built at Howard for the Corps of Engineers that year. One was for the Memphis district and the other was for the Vicksburg district.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Concrete mixer hull on grade at Howard Shipyard. This is one of two concrete mixer hulls built at Howard for the Corps of Engineers that year. One was for the Memphis district and the other was for the Vicksburg district.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men work on the hull of a concrete mixer barge on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The concrete mixer is probably the one of two that Howard built for the U.S. Corps of Engineers in 1926.
Barges; Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
U.S. Engineers, Huntington, West Virginia District, barge under construction on grade at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Pilothouse of DUNCAN BRUCE is visible in background.
Battlefields; Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military officers; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Stereograph view of Orville Elias Babcock (1835-1884) sitting on a stump and Orlando M. Poe (1832-1895) standing. The men are facing each other. In the background are rolling hills, apparently ravaged and covered with tree stumps. Inscribed on...
Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Steel hull of the MISSISSIPPI (Way #3977) on grade at Howard Shipyard. This hull (185 ft. x 38 ft. x 7.2 ft.) was built for the stern wheel inspection boat MISSISSIPPI in 1927. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the hull was towed to...
Address: 604-612 W. Walnut Street (Building no longer exists). An unidentified building is shown in construction. It might be the Mammoth Building. The building has a suspended canopy, and mostly brick construction. The first floor has large...
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This view of the construction site for the Kosair Temple shows the first floor partially built. A support beam and construction equipment abound. Signs facing Broadway read, "Plumbing by P.H. Meyer Co. / 640 South...
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This construction scene shows Kosair Temple being built. Scaffolding and pallets of bricks are in front of the building. A car is parked in front of a neighboring building which has signs reading, "Franklin /...
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This view of the construction site of the Kosair Temple shows the building with brick and ornamentation, but no windows. A truck is parked in front of pile of bricks. The truck has "Heating / Electrical / Engineers /...
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This construction scene shows Kosair Temple almost completed. Windows are still missing from the first floor. A number of wheel barrows are in front of the building, and a pulley system is attached to one of the upper...
Location: Woodland Avenue and 40th Street. In 1908, Alfred S. Joseph received a commission to design the livestock pavilion for the new Kentucky State Fair Grounds. It was this work which allowed him to found, with his brother Oscar, Joseph &...
This unidentified hotel lobby is decorated with tiled floors, mirrored walls, sconces, grillwork and elaborate inset ceilings. Handwritten on front: Joseph & Joseph / Architects Engineers / Louisville Ky.
Buildings; Hotels; Lodges; Henry Clay Building (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 604 S. Third Street. This drawing of the Henry Clay Hotel shows Joseph and Joseph's signature suspended canopy over the entrance. Originally built as the Elks Athletic Club in 1924, it was converted into the Henry Clay Hotel in 1928 and...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969). This view of the Rialto Theatre stage was probably taken from the balcony and shows an elegant stage, with orchestra pit. The stage is framed by an ornately tiled arch and two box seats....
City & town life; Elevated railroads; Street railroads; Pedestrians
View of streets and elevated railroad tracks in New York City. Buildings line the streets on the right, while the railroad tracks run perpendicular to the streets. Carriages, streetcars, and pedestrians are on the streets. Trains run on the tracks....
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
