A child wearing a long vest over pants stands on the running board of a Model A Ford. A man wearing a suit and hat sits at the wheel of the car looking at the child. The convertible has its spare tire attached to the side of the car near the front...
A couple with a young child heads toward the steamboat of the Rose Island Excursion Company. Flags of the United States are mounted at the front of the boat and along the sides. A number of cars are parked along the dock and a bridge is visible in...
A crowd of people fill the Municipal Bridge during its opening in October 1929. The bridge was later renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The bridge spans the Ohio River from Second and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, to Illinois...
A crowd of people lines the sidewalk in Jeffersonville, Indiana during the opening of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. A police officer stands in the middle of the street at the beginning of the bridge....
A flooded house and street in Port Fulton or Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1913. According to the photographer's notes, this is "Ed Hoover's (?) house" on "Apr. 2, 1913 at 3:10."
A freight train crosses a short bridge running over a dirt construction trench. Two men are visible in the engine car, which is labeled K&I.T.R.R.Co. (Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad). Title supplied by cataloger.
Railroad cars; Electric railroads; Indiana Railroad; People; Transportation
A group of well-dressed people sit in a railroad car. The seats are couches and armchairs and face each other as if one were in a sitting room. The car includes side tables with lamps and standing ashtrays. The men wear suits and the women wear...
A man in bib overalls and a hat stands in a railroad car for hauling raw materials for making cement. The cars are parked on tracks at the mouth of a mine. Another man in a buttoned-up shirt and pants with suspenders stands next to the car and...
A man is standing on Devil's Backbone, a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River. A group of people are further up on the rock formation. Devil's Backbone is currently situated outside Charlestown...
Snow; Ice; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
A man sits on the snow covered deck of a boat that is under construction on the ways at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana in January 1910. According to the photographer's notes, the boat is "Gil's."
A man stands fishing at the mouth of Fourteen Mile Creek, a creek in Clark County, Indiana, with the Ohio River in the background. It is so named because it is fourteen miles away from the Falls of the Ohio. The area was known as Fern Grove in the...
Floods--Ohio River; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company; Boat & ship industry
A man, perhaps Edmonds J. Howard, stands on an unfinished hull in Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana during the 1913 Ohio River flood. The sternwheel of the steamboat BOAZ is visible in the background.
Streets; City & town life; Automobiles; Stores & shops; Horses; Carriages & coaches; Buildings; Transportation
A median separates two brick streets in a business district of Jeffersonville, Indiana. At the end of the median is a long low building with a rounded roof where a number of horse-and-carriage rigs are parked. More carriages and cars are parked...
Railroad cars; Electric railroads; Indiana Railroad; Transportation
A railroad car sits on a track in a grassy area. A line connects it to wires above. "Indiana Railroad" is written on the side of the car as is an insignia with an I and an R with an arrow through them. The number 50 is also lettered on...
A small horse, hitched to a two-wheel cart, stands in front of the stable at the Howard Mansion on Market Street in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The photographer's notes describe this picture as "Horse and buggy," and,...
A small podium has been erected on the Municipal Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. One man stands at a microphone with other men on the podium and people are seated and standing around the stage to watch. This is the opening ceremony of the Municipal...
A steamboat is shown leaving the Louisville & Portland Canal and entering the Ohio River. Painted on the back of the boat is "East St. Louis, Port of Louisville." The boat is multiple stories and has two large black steam pipes near...
A tall, ornamental pillar marks the Louisville, Kentucky, approach to the Municipal Bridge. Now known as the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge or the Second Street Bridge, it spans the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville,...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
HANDY, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (110 ft. x 22 ft. x 3 ft.), was built at Howard in 1903-04. She operated in the Monroe, Louisiana area until she was lost in a storm in September, 1909.
