Men at work on steeple of Walnut Street Baptist Church in its original location at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1890. The church relocated to Third and Saint Catherine Streets in...
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Eleven wooden barge hulls under construction for the government at Howard Shipyards in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this picture was taken from the "St. Louis ferry."
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Two steel barges under construction one the grade at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana. These appear to be the New Orleans rock barges also seen in images 1986.90.802 and ULPA 1986.90.802A.
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Worker attaches sheet metal to the hull frame of a barge on the grade at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. According to the photographer's notes, this is "Bahmann's S.A. Barge," probably one of two built for a...
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; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Several men watch, and others ride on, the Mengel Box Company Barge No.2 as she is launched onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana.
Barges; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Steel barge slides off the grade and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indian. Towboat ED. J. HOWARD (Way T0679) is tied to the bank down river from the launch.
Damaged barge, J. Walton & Co. 396, floats in the icy Ohio River near the Indiana shore across from the Louisville Water Company pumping station in Louisville, Kentucky.
Barges; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Five men ride a dump scow barge down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The shipyard's raft of logs for future boats and the sidewheel packet KATE ADAMS (Way #3217) are just down river...
Barges; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men ride a transfer barge hull down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The JULIEN POYDRAS is being disassembled at the bank down river from the launch.
Barges; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Inland deck barge makes a big splash as she is launched on the Ohio River at Howard Shipyards in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Stern of ED. J. HOWARD (Way T0679) is visible on the left.
Baseball; Baseball players; Athletes; Group portraits; Men
Group portrait of the Louisville Eclipse team, which played Major League baseball in the American Association from 1882-1884 (following a stint as a semi-pro team from Louisville's West End). The team played at the original location of Eclipse...
Baseball; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.); Contests; Watermelons; African Americans
Watermelon eating contest during baseball game at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky. Six African American boys participate; grandstands filled with people in background. This image depicts African Americans in a stereotyped fashion that may be...
Beds; Brasswork; Mansions; Howard Steamboat Museum
Brass bed in James E. "Captain Jim" Howard's bedroom in the Howard Mansion, now the Howard Steamboat Museum. The bed, which is out of focus in the picture, was purchased at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The image is out of...
Two men play pool in the game room of the University Center. The Student Center was built in 1959, and dedicated (and renamed) in honor of former UofL president James Grier Miller and his wife, Jessie Louise Miller, on March 20, 1995.
Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
According to the photographer's notes, "Raft in river showing boats on grade. Raft in foreground showing how the logs were held together. Saplings called tie poles were laid crosswise and holes were bored through them into the log--then an oak...
Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
According to the photographer's notes, and unidentified "steel tug and dredge on grade" at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana.
