Covered bridge across a small and rocky waterfall. A man sits on rocks in the foreground. Title: On the Wissahickon, near Philadelphia. Descriptive information on back of card: Sold by Jas. W. Queen, Optician, No. 924 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia....
Looking into a temple with a group of people inside. A woman kneels at the outside wall. Flowers are along the wall of the temple. Title: Japanese Worshipers, Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto. Text on left: Published By The Atlas View Company. 147 Fifth...
Buildings; Awnings; Men; Women; Streets; Business districts
A row of businesses at the corner of Fourth Street and Jefferson Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Several of the storefronts have awnings and "watches and jewelry" is printed on the first awning on the street. George Wolf, whose name is on...
Wide canal between two rows of brick buildings. In front of the buildings on the left is a wooden dock. A boat is tied under an elevated building. A bridge is in the background. Title: 1669. Weigh Lock Junction Oswego & Erie Canal Syracuse,...
Buildings; City Hall (Louisville, Ky.); City & town halls
Built between 1870 and 1873, the Louisville City Hall was designed by John Andrewartha and C.S Mergell. It is located at 601 West Jefferson Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Prominent features of the building are the clock tower and the symbolic...
Buildings along Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky. Trees line the sidewalk in front of the buildings, while the foreground is dominated by Broadway. In the 1870s Broadway was considered a suburb with many large residences. By the end of this decade...
Buildings; Schools; Louisville Female High School (Louisville, Ky.)
The Louisville Female High School, located on First Street, in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1856 but moved to this location in 1864, where a new structure was built for it in 1873. People are standing around the front of the building.
The Courier Journal/Will Sales building at the southeast corner of Fourth Street and Green Street (now Liberty Street) in Louisville, Kentucky. A statue of George Prentice, a former editor of the newspaper, stands above the main entrance to the...
Buildings; Soldiers' homes; United States Soldiers' Home; United States Soldiers' and Airmens' Home
Two small cannons on the grounds in front of a large, white, three-story building with a four-story tower in the center. Text on left: J.F. Jarvis' Stereoscopic Views. Text on right: 135 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. Descriptive information on back of...
Close up view of debris, including twisted metal and wood, from the tornado that hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. Buildings with their facades damaged or completely gone are seen further down the street. The tornado killed an estimated...
Front of a building on Market Street between Tenth Street and Eleventh Street that was damaged by the tornado which hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. The walls of the building have been peeled away, so that the inside rooms of the three...
Buildings; Tornadoes; Disasters; Debris; Men; Women
Men stand perilously close to a structure with the roof collapsed following the tornado which hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. Men and women are on the sidewalk walking past other damaged buildings at the corner of Eleventh Street and...
Façade of buildings on Broadway between Fourth Street and Fifth Street in Louisville, Kentucky. A wide brick sidewalk sits between a row of trees and a wrought iron fence in front of the houses. Caption: 74. View on Broadway, between 4th and 5th...
A large shorthorn bull stands in front of a large barn. The University of Louisville Photographic Archives houses another copy of this stereograph as Image Number ULPA 2000.89.07.
Business people; Mail-order businesses; Sales catalogs
Man in a suit with a moustache sits at a desk in an office. Catalogs, papers, and a telephone are on the desk. Title: No 1. Mr. R.W. Sears, President Sears, Roebuck & Co., At His Desk. Text across top: Look At This Picture Through a Stereoscope.
Elevated railroad tracks for a cable car ascending a hill with trees, small fields, and water below. Buildings are in the background. Title: Cable Road, Hoboken N.J. Text on left: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood Baltimore, Md. Ottawa, Kas....
Stone canal wall in front of a rocky cliff with a pool of water below and trees in the distance. A few small buildings are along the top edge of the stone wall. Descriptive information on back of card: A Ramble in Wayne County-Penn. No. 5876. The...
Two men stand at the front of a train between a narrow rock canyon. Title: 4829. The Great Gorge, Crawford Notch, U.S.A. Text on right: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1891 by B.W. Kilburn in the Office of the Librarian of...
Overhead view of train passing through a narrow rock canyon with a short tunnel or set of gates at the end. One man stands next to the front of the train. Three men stand on the back of the front or engine car. Title: 309. Gates of the Crawford...
