Portrait of Etta (Mrs. Charles) Lorber of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a hat and a scarf tied around her neck. The photograph has been marked with discolorations. Stamped on back of image: April 23, 1933. Handwritten on back: Mrs. Charles Lorber,...
Installation of brew tanks, Fehr's Brewery, Louisville, Kentucky. A huge brew tank is suspended on its side by a crane (to which it is tied by one cable) outside Frank Fehr Brewing Company, where there is a square hole cut in the second floor brick...
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Drawing room. Dark wallpaper and parquet floor with area rugs. Two stiff backed armchairs, and sofa with padded bench. Cupboard with lower drawers...
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Dining room. Polished oval table with silver tureen and candlesticks and eight chairs, plus two chairs and a small child's chair also in the room....
Bedroom in Shackleford Miller home on Upper River Road, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Carpeted room with wallpaper and a four poster bed with white spread and dust ruffle. Fireplace partly shown at left has a bin and an extra rug in front. Small...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Bow and port side of CITY OF SAVANNAH (Way #1135), almost complete, tied to the bank of the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. CITY OF SAVANNAH, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (186 ft. x 31 ft. x 5 ft.), was built in 1889. Owned by St. Louis &...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ARTHUR HIDER, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (163 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1898. Owned by Mississippi River Commission, the tugboat operated on the lower Mississippi River until 1935 when she was sold to A. O. Kirschner...
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; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF HICKMAN, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (285 ft. x 44.5 ft. x 9.5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1890. Owned by Anchor Line, CITY OF HICKMAN operated on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans. She sank on August 23, 1896...
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...
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
H.ST.L. COPPEE, a stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (140 ft. x 30 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1904. Owned by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Vicksburg District, H.ST.L. COPPEE operated on the lower Mississippi River. H.ST.L. COPPEE...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF MUSKOGEE backing out from Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana on a trial run up the Ohio River. CITY OF MUSKOGEE, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (127.6 ft. x 28.5 ft. x 4.7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1908. Owned by Merchants...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Fires; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ISLAND MAID, a stern-wheel excursion boat with wood hull (190 ft. x 36 ft. x 5 ft.), was originally built by Howard as G.W. HILL in 1909. In 1923, she was sold to Coney Island Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio and renamed ISLAND MAID. After a fire in spring...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
MORNING STAR, a side-wheel packet with wood hull (225 ft. x 38 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1901. Owned by Louisville & Evansville Packet Co., MORNING STAR operated on the Ohio River between Louisville and Evansville until 1910 when she...
Ferries; Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CITY OF WARSAW, a stern-wheel ferry with wood hull (100 ft. x 35.4 ft. x 3.1 ft.), was built at Howard in 1895. Owned by Frank Myers, she operated in the Cairo, Illinois area and was taken out of service after 1908.
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
COL. A. MACKENZIE, a side-wheel snag-boat (160 ft. x 33 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she initially operated on the upper Mississippi River. When Captain David Tipton died at her wheel in Lake...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
J.E. TRUDEAU, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (160 ft. x 30 ft. x 4.2 ft.), was built at Howard in 1889. Owned by New Orleans & Washington Packet Co., J.E. TRUDEAU operated in the New Orleans and Atchafalaya area. She burned at Belle River,...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
KENTUCKY (Way #3267), a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (176 ft. x 33 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1904. Owned by St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co., KENTUCKY (Way #3267) operated on the Tennessee River. In winter of 1922-23,...
Ferries; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DELTA, a side-wheel ferry with wood hull (226 ft. x 45 ft. x 7 ft.), was built at Howard in 1891. Owned by Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad, she operated in the Vicksburg area and was dismantled in 1906.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Boat engines; Launchings; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
GOUVERNEUR, an electric stern-wheel towboat with steel hull (121.9 ft. x 23 ft. x 5 ft.), was built in 1926 at Howard Ship Yard and Dock Company in Jeffersonville.
