City & town life; Elevated railroads; Street railroads; Railroads; Pedestrians; People
View of streets and elevated railroad tracks in New York City. Buildings line the streets on the right, while the railroad tracks run perpendicular to the streets. Carriages, streetcars, and pedestrians are on the streets. Trains run on the tracks....
Cities & towns; Buildings; Flatiron Building (New York, N.Y.); Streets
View of Flatiron Building in New York from down the street. Twenty-story wedge-shaped building at the intersection of two streets. Pedestrians and horses and wagons are on the street. Title: 10 Most striking of Sky-scrapers - the 'Flatiron' Bldg.,...
Map of the Great Lakes area extends south to Tennessee and North Carolina covering Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New York, and the Western Territory. Details include state borders, mountain ranges, rivers, large creeks, cities, and...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Starboard side of NEW SOUTH at the bank of the Ohio River. NEW SOUTH, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (257 ft. x 42.6 ft. x 7 ft.), was built in 1887 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Owned by Shelby & Perkins...
Promotional ad in the New York Tribune for J. M. Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella," starring Maude Adams, which apparently played at the Hollis St. Theatre in New York in January 1917. It features four images from the play, with actors...
Large five-story building with domed roof and short tower. Viewed from across the street. A streetcar passes in front. Pairs of columns mark the front door. Title: New York Post Office, New York. Text on left: 98 Nassau Street, New York. Text on...
City & town life; Street railroads; Railroads; Buildings; Pedestrians; People
Busy city street lined by shops and other buildings. Men and women walk on the sidewalk and in the street. Streetcars, wagons, and carriages are on the street. Title: Broadway from Prince St., New York, U.S.A. Text on left: Strohmeyer & Wyman,...
Elevated railroads; Railroads; Cities & towns; Parks
View from above of elevated railway with a train on the tracks. Below is a park with paths, a gazebo, and trees. A ship is in the water in the distance. Title: Battery Park - extreme southern part of Manhattan Island - Elevated Railway and New York...
City & town life; Elevated railroads; Railroads; Buildings; Pedestrians; People
View down the Bowery of the cobblestone street and the elevated railroad tracks on either side in front of the buildings. Streetcars, carriages, and pedestrians are on the street. Trains are on the elevated railroads on both sides of the street....
City & town life; Elevated railroads; Railroads; Buildings; Pedestrians; People
View down the Bowery of the cobblestone street and the elevated railroad tracks on either side in front of the buildings. Streetcars, carriages, and pedestrians are on the street. A wagon carrying lumber is in the center of the street. Title: (3)...
Man stand on a snow covered bank at the shore of the Ohio River in New Albany, Indiana. A tower is in the background on the left. Caption: Winter View Falls, Ohio River at New Albany, Jan. 1879. Handwritten on back: Ice scenery from river bank. On...
Railroad stations; Railroads; Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.); Luggage; Buildings
Interior view of railroad station. Behind an iron fence and gate are multiple sets of railroad tracks with a platform in the center. Trains are on tracks on the left. A curved ceiling is above. A stack of suitcases is in the right corner. Title:...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Ekstrom Library (Louisville, Ky.); Libraries; Trees;
Ekstrom Library, west entrance (new wing). The entrance has broad steps and large plate glass windows. There are large trees in the foreground that obscure the building. The leaves on the trees are yellow. A lone figure walks in front of the...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Indians of North America--Kentucky--Bullitt County--Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology)--Kentucky--Ashworth Rockshelter site; Ashworth Rockshelter site (Ky.)
Reinvestigation of a National Register property, the Ashworth Rockshelter (15BU236), northeast of Shepardsville, Bullitt Co., Kentucky, revealed stratified Early Archaic through Mississippian components (ca. 7900 B.C.-1500 A.D.). Primary occupation...
Jane Carroll sitting at a piano, singing. Stamped on back of image: July 17, 1928. Attached to the back: Associated Press Photo, From New York; New Metropolitan Opera American Star; Miss Carroll's real name is Helen Howard. She is a daughter of...
Jane Carroll sitting on the arm of a chair. Photograph has been slightly damaged. Stamped on back of image: July 17, 1928. Attached to the back: Associated Press Photo, From New York; New Metropolitan Opera American Star; Miss Carroll's real name...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of CITY OF NEW ORLEANS at the bank of a river, probably in Louisiana. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (290 ft. x 48 ft. x 8.5 ft.), was built in 1881 at Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company in Jeffersonville,...
Ferries; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
NEW SHALLCROSS tied to the snow covered bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. NEW SHALLCROSS, a side-wheel ferry with wood hull (160 ft. x 36.9 ft. x 6.1 ft.), was built at Howard in 1878. Owned by Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry...
Ferries; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
NEW ORLEANS, a catamaran ferry with steel hull (144 ft. x 55 ft. x 7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1925. Owned by Algiers Public Service Co., Inc., NEW ORLEANS operated on the lower Mississippi River in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. She...
