Air pollution; Rivers; Boats; Transportation; Military facilities
Address: River Road and Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A boat comes out of the covered shelter of the U.S. Coast Guard station. A man in a white cap is seated at the front of the boat and two men in dark uniforms are standing at the rear of...
Boat & ship industry; Steamboats; Military facilities; Transportation; Bridges; Rivers
The City of Louisville was built in 1894 for trade between Louisville and Cincinnati. The U.S. Life Saving Station, or the U.S. Coast Guard, is next to the boat and the Big Four bridge in in the background. Caption under photo reads "Wharf in...
Boat & ship industry; Steamboats; Transportation; Military facilities; Rivers
A steamboat is coming in towards the bank of the Ohio River in winter. Ice is visible in the water. The U.S. Life Saving Station, or the U.S. Coast Guard, is in the background. Title supplied by caption under photo.
Bridges; Rivers; Steamboats; Buildings; Transportation; Military facilities
Two steamboats are docked along the shore of the Ohio River. In the background are the Louisville Municipal Bridge, now known as the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, and the Big Four Bridge. A truck is parked on shore next to a ramp leading to...
"Artifacts from the wreck include: the ivory figurine of a female acrobat with her feet on her head; a gold pendant of a nude fertility goddess holding gazelles in her hands; a partly gold-clad bronze figurine of a goddess, perhaps the ship's...
"A full-scale replica of the ship in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey." (Caption, p. 315); "Without doubt it was a royal cargo. And an exceptional one, at that. We can only guess how its loss, toward the end of...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Brigman Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities
Truck parked in front of a metal tower on the grassy area in front of Grawemeyer Hall to the east at the University of Louisville Belknap campus. The sign on the truck reads U.S. Dept of Commerce Coast & Geodetic Survey no. 308.
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
Souvenir postcard folder from Long Beach, California. Includes images of buildings such as the Municipal Auditorium and Horseshoe Pier (under construction), various hotels, and the Polytechnic High School. There are also scenic shots, including...
“A. The large mercantile harbour [harbor] of Kantharos; B. The main naval harbour [harbor] of Zea; C. The smaller naval harbour [harbor] of Munichia.” (caption, p.13); “Faced with certain Spartan retaliation, the Athenian assembly took the...
Hotels; Tampa Bay Hotel (Tampa, Fla.); Gardens; Towers
Tampa Bay Hotel, a large red building with several turrets. The turrets are rounded with Middle Eastern influenced styling. There are gardens on "islands" in front of the hotel. Text printed on verso reads, "Tamp Bay Hotel. Florida....
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Bagobo (Philippine people); Indigenous peoples; Men
Young man with hair to his waist over a bead-adorned jacket and shorts, posing outdoors in front of trees. He is likely Bulon, a nineteen-year-old Bagobo Moro (a Muslim tribe from the western coast of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands). Since the...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, three barefoot men in bead-adorned shorts, jackets, and sheaths, each wearing a different style of hat, hold swords. Behind them is a hut and trees. They are Bagobo Moros, a Muslim tribe from the western...
A girl in a beaded dress and head covering stands with her arm in front of a tree trunk. In her hand she holds a cloth. She may be Bagobo Moro (a Muslim tribe from the western coast of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands). Since the World's Fair in...
Topographic map on a scale of 1:125000 of the area near Huntington, West Virginia, with Lawrence County, Ohio to the northwest. Cabell, Wayne, Lincoln, Putnam, and Logan Counties of West Virginia are shown. Kentucky, to the west, is only shown in...
