A man stands in front of a house on Madison Street destroyed by the tornado that struck Louisville, Kentucky on March 27, 1890. The tornado killed an estimated 100 people and many more were injured.
Two-story wooden building with upper-level balcony/deck at the corner of Ninth and Madison, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor building has advertisements for beer, Union Leader Cut Plug, Pearline Soap, and tobacco, although some of the signs seem...
Louisville artists Norman Kohlhepp and his wife, Dorothy Kohlhepp, dressed in evening wear. The photograph is marked with a few blemishes. Attached to front of image: Please Credit…Rotoetos…Prominent personalities attend the opening of the...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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 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...
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....
Set of railroad tracks with lumber lying next to it. The tracks run across a rocky terrain with mountains in the background. Title: Mount Adams and Madison from Mount Washington. Text on left: New Hampshire. Text on right: Published by Rice &...
City & town life; Street railroads; Railroads; Pedestrians; People
Busy and crowded city street. The sidewalks are packed with pedestrians with more crossing the cobblestone or brick street. Streetcars are on tracks down the center of the street with wagons and carriages on either side. Buildings line the streets....
Cities & towns; Buildings; Flatiron Building (New York, N.Y.); Streets
View of Flatiron Building in New York from down the street. Twenty-story wedge-shaped building at the intersection of two streets. Pedestrians and horses and wagons are on the street. Title: 10 Most striking of Sky-scrapers - the 'Flatiron' Bldg.,...
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...
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...
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."
Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky. Wide dark three-story building with corner roofed towers and two central domed turrets around entrance. A dome of clouds has been painted in black and...
Merchants & Manufacturing Building at Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky, at night. Against a black sky the well lit building glows. Part of the building is shown, from a corner roofed tower to a domed turret. The Old Kentucky...
