Two sets of railroad tracks curve around a tree-covered mountain. There are trees to the left below a drop-off. This is the area known as Horseshoe Curve. Title: 1. Horse Shoe, looking West. Text on left: American Scenery, Penn'a. Railroad. Text on...
Multiple, long rows of train freight cars on railroad tracks extending far back toward the horizon. Title: P-27148 Freight Cars in a Railroad Freight Yard. Verso: P221 - (27148) Freight cars in a railroad freight yard. Text on left: Keystone View...
Train approaching a curve from the left. Trees are on the right side of the railroad tracks, with a drop-off on the left. A broken wooden fence is on the left in the front. Title: Deep Fill, T. & C. Branch. 323. Text on bottom: Photographed and...
An elderly African-American couple sits on a bench in front of a cabin. The woman appears to be sewing while the man looks at her. A ladder leans against the cabin's chimney. Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin--The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A....
Train tracks around a curve known as Horseshoe Curve. There is a drop-off on either side with trees and a hill or mountain in the background. Title: 341. Horse Shoe Curve. Text on left: The Scenery of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. Text on...
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...
Engine car of a train exiting a curve with a long freight train behind it coming around a hill. There is a drop-off to the left and right of the tracks with tree-covered hills or mountains in the background. Title: Horse Shoe Curve, above Altoona....
Collapsed building on a lot surrounded by other buildings. The lot is covered with piles of rubble. Caption: Louisville Tornado. Ruins of Louisville Tobacco Warehouse. Text on bottom: Copyright 1890 by Geo. Barker. Text on left: Geo. Barker,...
Two sets of railroad tracks curving to the right around a tree-covered mountain. The curve is known as Horseshoe Curve. A man stands to the right of the tracks in front of a drop-off. Text on left: American Scenery, Penn'a. Railroad. Text on right:...
Historic sites; Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (Ky.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Log cabins; Monuments & memorials
Replica of the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The original cabin was mostly destroyed, but a replica, built from some of the original salvaged materials, stands within the Lincoln Memorial at the Abraham Lincoln...
Three harness racing drivers are on the Lexington race course in Kentucky. Since one is going in the opposite direction, it would appear not to be a race. A two-story grandstand and stables are in the background.
A man in a stovepipe hat stands posing among broken fences in front of a log structure. The handwritten caption on the back of the image indicates that this is the oldest tavern in Kentucky, possibly in Boyle County or Nelson County.
Men and women walk across a narrow wooden bridge, possibly over Elkhorn Creek in Kentucky. The bridge is supported by stone columns and has no railings. A house and several large buildings are in the background. A wooded landscape surrounds the...
Buildings and debris along Main Street following the tornado which hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. Several horse drawn trams, a horse and carriage, and people are on the street. Several power poles line the street. There were many...
Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries; Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.); Christy, Howard F.
Monument for Howard Christy in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Thought to have been taken around 1871, this is the earliest known view of Cave Hill Cemetery.
Horse-drawn wagon with tarp in the curve of a mountain road, possibly in Kentucky. Two teams of horses are drawing the wagon and the driver is sitting on the team closest to the wagon. A man stands behind the wagon resting against it. Another man...
Grand Army of the Republic; War casualties; Military camps; Swine
Several men stand holding pigs to roast above a roasting pit during the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Louisville, Kentucky in 1895. Two pigs are roasting in the pit. Title: Roasting Pigs at the Great Barbecue, G.A.R. [Grand Army...
Hotels; Middlesborough Hotel (Middlesborough, Ky.)
Hand-tinted image of the Middlesborough Hotel in Middlesborough, Kentucky. This four-story hotel had approximately 100 rooms. It is no longer in existence.
Women; Houses; Building materials; Lumber; Wooden sidewalks
A woman stands in front of a Victorian era house surrounded by a wrought iron fence, possibly in Boyd County, Kentucky or Ironton, Ohio. A plank sidewalk is in front of the house and unused planks lie in the yard. Title supplied by cataloger.
