Engraving, from John G. Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America.
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...
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...
Portrait of Betty Leonard of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing her hair short with curls. The photograph is marked with discolorations and age. Handwritten on back of image: credit, Rieger Studio (Louisville), Miss Elizabeth Leonard, known as (Betty...
More than a dozen cars are parked along a slope by the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. The steamboat America is featured prominently. Further along are the coast guard station and another steamboat which appears to be leaving shore. In the...
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...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
The old Coast Guard station in the shallows of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky. The white two-story station has a balcony and a United States flag and a pointed turret and small windows. The first Louisville Lifeboat Station was a wooden...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
New Coast Guard station or Life Saving Station in the shallows on the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky. Compared to the old station, the windows are large and the trim is dark. There is a rope across the water to the shore and men on both sides....
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
New Coast Guard station or Life Saving Station on Ohio River with a steamboat and bridge visible as seen from Louisville, Kentucky, 1929. The first Louisville Lifeboat Station was a wooden houseboat built in 1881 and located at the Falls of the...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
Coast Guard members, formally posed, from left: John F. Gillooly, John J. Tully (holding a row with a star), and William Devan. Louisville, Kentucky, 1934. The first Louisville Lifeboat Station was a wooden houseboat built in 1881 and located at...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
On the cobblestone in front of the Louisville, Kentucky, Coast Guard station, five coast Guard members wearing uniforms and boots stand at attention, shouldering rifles, while their captain looks on. From left, they are: Captain Walter Farrell,...
United States. Coast Guard; Buildings; Lifesaving stations
Nine Louisville, Kentucky Coast Guard members in dark suits. On back of image: (left-to-right) "Capt. Walter Farrell, commander; Walter Fugit, boatswain's mate, first class; Frank Pezulo, surfman; Harry LaFever, surfman; William Seibert,...
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.
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.
