A woman and two men pose on the set of "May Blossom, or the Fisherman's Daughter" which debuted at New York's Madison Square Theatre on April 12, 1884, and was staged at Macauley's Theatre in December 1884 and January 1886. Georgia Cayvan...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of side-wheeler AMERICA (Way #241), loaded with passengers, at the bank of the Ohio River in Madison, Indiana. AMERICA, a side-wheel packet and excursion boat with wood hull (285 ft. x 45 ft. x 6 ft.), was built in 1917 at Howard...
Address: 208 E. Madison Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A metal tub sits on a draped table which also holds a couple of stopper bottles, scissors, towels, and other items in the Avgerinos family apartment. Around the table is a crowd of people, some...
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,...
Bridge over Kentucky River, viewed from Boonesboro, Kentucky, with statue of Daniel Boone at left and parked car on embankment. Signs near bridge say "Boonesboro Toll Bridge" and "Enter Madison Co. Leave Clark Co."
A man sits on a circular stone wall in the middle of a field. This is the burial place of Colonel Gabriel Slaughter (1767-1830), a politician who served in the Kentucky state house of representatives (1797), Kentucky state senate (1801), and as...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF LOUISVILLE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (301 ft. x 42.7 ft. x 7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1894. Owned by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co., CITY OF LOUISVILLE operated on the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati. She...
Heat pipes; Solar heating--Passive systems; Solar heating--Research; Solar energy--Research
The one dimensional heat transfer, thermal diode effect of heat pipes makes
them ideal for passive solar applications. Gains in a heat pipe passive solar wall are not
lost during cloud cover or periods of low irradiation. An experimental model was...
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.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
EXPORTER, towing a barge on the Ohio River. EXPORTER, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (186.5 ft. x 35 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard Shipyard in Madison, Indiana in 1895 for St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Company. She...
Dredges; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry
Stern and starboard side view of U.S. Dredge FORT CHARTRES undergoing repairs on ways at Madison shipyard. The paddlewheel has been removed. FORT CHARTRES, a stern wheel dredge was built at Dubuque Boiler & Boat Works in Dubuque, Iowa in 1908....
Dredges; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry
Bow and starboard side view of U.S. Dredge FORT CHARTRES undergoing repairs on ways at Madison shipyard. FORT CHARTRES, a stern wheel dredge was built at Dubuque Boiler & Boat Works in Dubuque, Iowa in 1908. Owned by U.S. Engineers, FORT...
Dredges; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry
Bow and starboard side view of U.S. Dredge FORT CHARTRES undergoing repairs on ways at Madison shipyard. FORT CHARTRES, a stern wheel dredge was built at Dubuque Boiler & Boat Works in Dubuque, Iowa in 1908. Owned by U.S. Engineers, FORT...
Frank William Morancy was born in Madison Parish, Louisiana, in 1858. His father Francis E. Morancy was a prosperous cotton planter who was also learned in both law and medicine. The family was descended from French settlers to the island of...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
G.W. HILL, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (190 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1909. Owned by G. W. Hill, the boat operated in the St. Louis -Calhoun County area initially and, after being converted to an excursion boat, on the...
Graduation dinner in Anderson Hall in May 1913. James Madison "Matt" Hensley and Dr. Preston Jennings Jones are on the left at the front table. Lillie DeZarn sits behind the flowers on the right with Julia Barclay on her left. L. D....
Ferries; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
HENRY WATTERSON on ways at Madison, Indiana. HENRY WATTERSON, a side-wheel ferry with steel hull (170 ft. x 48 ft. x 7.4 ft.), was originally named ANDREW CHRISTY (Way #0256). She was built in 1897 by Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company. Owned by...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Fires; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ISLAND MAID, a stern-wheel excursion boat with wood hull (190 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was originally built by Howard as G.W. HILL in 1909. In 1923, she was sold to Coney Island Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio and renamed ISLAND MAID. After a fire in spring...
Stern wheeler JOHN K. SPEED on the Ohio River near Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. JOHN K. SPEED, a stern wheel packet with a wood hull (261 ft. x 42 ft. x 8 ft.) was built in Madison, Indiana in 1892. Owned by...
