Four carts, each led by a mule team and carrying passengers, in front of a small, open-sided shack in the woods, at the base of a large hill covered in bare trees. Four onlookers stand in a row at the edge of the shack, to the left of which is a...
Railroad cars; Railroad employees; Men; Boys; Electric railroads
Interurban with conductor and two passengers, a man and young boy, sits on a railroad track. The railcar has "54" on the front and a "Silver Hills" sign on the top. It probably carried passengers from New Albany, Ind. to Silver...
Ferries; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
A. BALDWIN, a center wheel ferry with steel catamaran hulls (127 ft. x 58.9 ft. x 7.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1905. Owned by Union Ferry Co., A. BALDWIN operated in the New Orleans area carrying up to thirty-five automobiles and 231...
Ferries; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
A.M. HALLIDAY, a center wheel ferry with steel catamaran hulls (121 ft. x 59 ft. x 7.7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1903. Owned by Union Ferry Co. in New Orleans, she operated in the New Orleans area, carrying up to thirty-five cars and 225...
Ferries; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ALGIERS, a stern-wheel ferry with steel hull (144 ft. x 55 ft. x 7.7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1925. Owned by Algiers Public Service Co., Inc., the ferry operated on the lower Mississippi River in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans,...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of side-wheeler AMERICA (Way #241), loaded with passengers, at the bank of the Ohio River in Madison, Indiana. AMERICA, a side-wheel packet and excursion boat with wood hull (285 ft. x 45 ft. x 6 ft.), was built in 1917 at Howard...
Buildings; Vehicles; Airplanes; Airports; American Airlines, inc.; Biplanes; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Passengers, mostly men wearing suits and white hats with black bands, are greeted as they exit a large American Airlines biplane on the tarmac at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky. The airfield, established in 1919 by Abram H. Bowman, is still in...
Hotels; Buildings; Automobiles; Streets; Stores & shops; Transportation; Street railroads; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 335 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolleys and automobiles line the road in front of the Brown Hotel on Broadway. In the middle of the street is a median strip where passengers of the trolleys embark and disembark. Wide sidewalks...
Train with two cars on steep tracks descending a rocky terrain. Men stand beside the train. Passengers are in the second car. Text on left: Stereoscopic Gems. Handwritten on back: Cars on the Rocky Mountains.
Ferries; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF BATON ROUGE, a centerwheel ferry with steel hull (115.2 ft. x 28 ft. x 7.2 ft.), was built at Howard in 1916. Owned by Baton Rouge Transportation Co., CITY OF BATON ROUGE operated at the the Louisiana city, carrying up to twenty-one...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF CINCINNATI, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (300 ft. x 38 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1899. Owned by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co., CITY OF CINCINNATI operated on the Ohio River opposite the City of Louisville. Every...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF LOUISVILLE, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (301 ft. x 42.7 ft. x 7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1894. Owned by Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co., CITY OF LOUISVILLE operated on the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati. She...
Dunbar steamboat at the Burkesville, Kentucky dock on the Cumberland River. The steamer is filled with passengers, including a brass band on the top level. There is also a crowd on the shore and two harnessed horses in the foreground.
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky...
Eleven men and women stand on the top deck of a docked, smoke-blowing ferry boat which is marked "Katherine" and "Cairo. Birds Point. Wickliffe." The boat, two stories with a small enclosure above, is on the Mississippi River,...
Parades & processions; Beauty contestants; University of Louisville--Students;
Homecoming queen Margie Hunter waves from the back of a convertible during the University of Louisville's homecoming parade. There are other passengers in the car, and automobiles travel in the other lane. People watch from the sidewalk on the...
A man wearing a top hat drives an open horse-drawn carriage with four male passengers on a cobblestone street. They are probably in a parade because spectators appear to be lined up under the awning, and on the curb, behind them. Title supplied by...
Horse-drawn carriages loaded with passengers sit outside the blacksmith shop near London, Kentucky. These carriages, which transported visitors from London to Oneida, appear to be waiting for one of the horses from the front carriage to have a shoe...
Loretta Howard, another woman and a young child, presumably Ed Howard, are passengers in a skiff boat at the Mechanic Street levee during the 1913 Ohio River flood. Several men, a boy and a dog are standing around the levee. According to the...
