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Simmons Album, 1904

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Title

Simmons Album

Date

1904

Repository

University of Louisville Special CollectionsLouisville, Kentucky 40292 USA

Conditions Governing Access note

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation Note

[Identification of item], Simmons Album Collection, KLGF 98.11, Special Collections, University of Louisville, Louisville.

Extent

.25 linear feet (1 album containing 112 photoprints)

Collection Inventory

Confederate Place, SW view of monument

[item: 98.11.001]

Confederate Place, NE view of monument (all buildings in this picture no longer standing)

[item: 98.11.002]

Confederate Place, view of monument to back looking south on 3rd and Confederate Place

[item: 98.11.003]

"Jacobs Park" (named after Jacobs who was the mayor at that time, now Iroquois Park)

[item: 98.11.004]

NE view of Confederate Place monument from Triangle Park

[item: 98.11.005]

Pavillion in Triangle Park (?)

[item: 98.11.006]

Louisville House of Refuge, area SE of Confederate Place

[item: 98.11.007]

Cherokee Park (?) foundation to an old mill by Big Rock (?)

[item: 98.11.008]

Hogan's Fountain, Cherokee Park

[item: 98.11.009]

Jefferson County Courthouse, Gideon Shyrock architect, 6th and Jefferson, civil war cannon was there until, 1942

[item: 98.11.010]

view east on Jefferson, from right of court house, city hall, city fire HQ (with watch tower) after flood this moved to 12th and Jefferson, 1937

[item: 98.11.011]

corner of 5th and Jefferson NW view of court house

[item: 98.11.012]

Deaconess (Methodist founded) Hospital (?) between Chestnut and Walnut, OR St. Joseph Hospital on 4th Street

[item: 98.11.013]

Manual HS, Brook Street side, SE Brook and Oak

[item: 98.11.014]

Manual HS, front door

[item: 98.11.015]

Manual HS, rear view on Oak

[item: 98.11.016]

SE corner of Manual HS

[item: 98.11.017]

forge shop in Manual HS

[item: 98.11.018]

2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.019]

garden, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.020]

garden, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.021]

garden, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.022]

garden, privy and coal shed on right, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.023]

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.024]

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.025]

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.026]

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.027]

back yard, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.028]

little girl

[item: 98.11.029]

girls in back yard, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.030]

girls in back yard, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

[item: 98.11.031]

3 young women sitting on a fallen log and 2 men

[item: 98.11.032]

3 young women sitting on a fallen log and 2 men

[item: 98.11.033]

3 young women and 2 men looking upstream of the Ohio River, Sugar Grove (?)

[item: 98.11.034]

excursion boat (side wheeler) either the Sunshine or the Columbia, stern. They doubled as ferrys. Owned by Falls City Ferry. Ran to Vern Grove (Rose Island)

[item: 98.11.035]

Victorian home in West End (?) of Louisville, (?): could be the beginning of Flaget High School, 4000 block of W. Broadway

[item: 98.11.036]

house and pond on top of Jacobs Hill? (top of Iroquois Park, N/NW)

[item: 98.11.037]

same pond as.037 with children swimming

[item: 98.11.041]

back of Kenwood Hill, aka "Devil's Backbone" (across from Iroquois Park)

[item: 98.11.042]

bridge over Beargrass Creek (Frankfort Ave (?), Brownsboro Road (?), Cherokee Park (?), Lexington Road (?)

[item: 98.11.043]

2 women and 1 man in Shawnee Park

[item: 98.11.044]

2 women and 1 man in Shawnee Park

[item: 98.11.045]

2 women and 1 man in Shawnee Park

[item: 98.11.046]

Shawnee Park

[item: 98.11.047]

Shawnee Park

[item: 98.11.048]

Riverview Park

[item: 98.11.049]

Ohio river by Shawnee Park, remains of a boat wreck (?), or coaling point (where barges unload coal)

[item: 98.11.050]

view downstream of 14th Street Bridge (Pennsylvania Bridge), first bridge built in Louisville, original truss designed by Albert Fink, who become Chief Engineer of L & N RR. It's THE way to build bridges before steel and I beams. Built: replaced, 1873

[item: 98.11.051]

Louisville Wharf, large barrels (hoggshead) contain tobacco leaves. City of Louisville (built or City of Cincinnati (built in background, 1894)

[item: 98.11.052]

K & I Bridge (second bridge in Louisville, built: or 4 replaced: Stern wheeler heading upstream to locks, 1883

[item: 98.11.053]

stern wheeler in the locks

[item: 98.11.054]

stern wheeler leaving locks, 26th Street Bridge & Tarascon, Shipping port in background on island

[item: 98.11.055]

house boat "Watts" end of Jackson (?), coal business (?) for fuel for steamboats (private business)

[item: 98.11.056]

E.A. Woodruff snag boat @ 5th Street. Govt. boat to pull snags or clean up wreckage in the river

[item: 98.11.057]

E.A. Woodruff snag boat @ 5th Street. Govt. boat to pull snags or clean up wreckage in the river

[item: 98.11.058]

City of Jeffersonville excursion/ferry boat at the ferry dock

[item: 98.11.059]

W.C. Hite coming up to ferry dock, ice in Ohio River, Jeffersonville in background

[item: 98.11.060]

City of Louisville, Big Four Bridge in the background at Coast Guard station or "U.S. Life-Saving Station"

[item: 98.11.061]

City of Louisville, Big Four Bridge in the background at Coast Guard station or "U.S. Life-Saving Station" (24-hour watch in the winter)

[item: 98.11.062]

Pennsylvania Bridge in the background, coal station & barge in foreground

[item: 98.11.063]

Pennsylvania Bridge in the background, coal station & barge in foreground

[item: 98.11.064]

"Lucile and Grace" (McDowell?), 1903

[item: 98.11.065]

towboat Atlas Coal switching out coal towboats. Big Four Bridge in the background, hazy & ice

[item: 98.11.066]

"ice blockade" steam boat

[item: 98.11.067]

"ice blockade" steam boat, Tow Head island in background (tows and barges took refuge, shanty boats...)

[item: 98.11.068]

"Pumpkin Patch"

[item: 98.11.069]

Big Four Bridge, man walking across on sidewalk

[item: 98.11.070]

Big Four Bridge, sidewalk

[item: 98.11.071]

L & N shops (built locomotives from ground up), RR coal trestle in background

[item: 98.11.072]

L & N round house, South Louisville

[item: 98.11.073]

man tightening brake on flat car

[item: 98.11.074]

north view from pedestrian bridge, left side: passenger to depot, right side: freight, line out of Louisville

[item: 98.11.075]

south view, on right: unloading station for race horses called "horse unloading platform"

[item: 98.11.076]

L & N shop, South Louisville, transfer table moves cars to different bays

[item: 98.11.077]

Floyd's Fork So. RR near Fisherville station

[item: 98.11.078]

Floyd's Fork So. RR near Fisherville station

[item: 98.11.079]

Pope Lick trestle

[item: 98.11.080]

Fisherville "Ethel's home"

[item: 98.11.081]

Fisherville

[item: 98.11.082]

Ethel, in Fisherville "In the Old Swing"

[item: 98.11.083]

Ethel, in Fisherville

[item: 98.11.084]

Ethel, in Fisherville "ready for work, summer 1904"

[item: 98.11.084b]

Ethel, in Fisherville sitting on porch with dog

[item: 98.11.085]

"Ethel"

[item: 98.11.086]

"Mr. Boswell and horse"

[item: 98.11.088]

Mr. Boswell and dog

[item: 98.11.089]

"raking hay at Uncle Isaac's" Fisherville

[item: 98.11.090]

chickens

[item: 98.11.091]

"Wilma and `Tersie' at Riverside"

[item: 98.11.092]

Wilma and `Tersie' at Riverside

[item: 98.11.093]

"Riverview Park Indianapolis"

[item: 98.11.094]

3 women reading the newspaper

[item: 98.11.095]

"hitching up for town" horse drawn carriage, snow on ground, Indianapolis (?)

[item: 98.11.096]

man pulling 2 kids on a sled

[item: 98.11.097]

"Wilma's home"

[item: 98.11.098]

Wilma's street

[item: 98.11.099]

"Chalmers" horse plow

[item: 98.11.100]

team of horses pulling a plow

[item: 98.11.101]

"Clifton and Clifford" 2 boys with a dog and cat

[item: 98.11.102]

Clifton and Clifford's house

[item: 98.11.103]

"flower store on Ft. Wayne Ave."

[item: 98.11.104]

"copy from Paxson" 2 Indians, one with rifle

[item: 98.11.105]

at Telephone Company

[item: 98.11.106]

oval portrait of woman

[item: 98.11.107]

oval portrait of woman

[item: 98.11.108]

Ethel

[item: 98.11.109]

Ethel

[item: 98.11.110]

young boy with shovel

[item: 98.11.111]

2 men in suits and bowlers

[item: 98.11.112]

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Simmons Album, 1904

Author

Title

Date

Repository

Conditions Governing Access note

Preferred Citation Note

Extent

Collection Inventory

Confederate Place, SW view of monument

Confederate Place, NE view of monument (all buildings in this picture no longer standing)

Confederate Place, view of monument to back looking south on 3rd and Confederate Place

"Jacobs Park" (named after Jacobs who was the mayor at that time, now Iroquois Park)

NE view of Confederate Place monument from Triangle Park

Pavillion in Triangle Park (?)

Louisville House of Refuge, area SE of Confederate Place

Cherokee Park (?) foundation to an old mill by Big Rock (?)

Hogan's Fountain, Cherokee Park

Jefferson County Courthouse, Gideon Shyrock architect, 6th and Jefferson, civil war cannon was there until, 1942

view east on Jefferson, from right of court house, city hall, city fire HQ (with watch tower) after flood this moved to 12th and Jefferson, 1937

corner of 5th and Jefferson NW view of court house

Deaconess (Methodist founded) Hospital (?) between Chestnut and Walnut, OR St. Joseph Hospital on 4th Street

Manual HS, Brook Street side, SE Brook and Oak

Manual HS, front door

Manual HS, rear view on Oak

SE corner of Manual HS

forge shop in Manual HS

2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

garden, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

garden, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

garden, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

garden, privy and coal shed on right, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

girls on front porch, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

back yard, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

little girl

girls in back yard, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

girls in back yard, 2438 Cypress, McDowell family home (?)

3 young women sitting on a fallen log and 2 men

3 young women sitting on a fallen log and 2 men

3 young women and 2 men looking upstream of the Ohio River, Sugar Grove (?)

excursion boat (side wheeler) either the Sunshine or the Columbia, stern. They doubled as ferrys. Owned by Falls City Ferry. Ran to Vern Grove (Rose Island)

Victorian home in West End (?) of Louisville, (?): could be the beginning of Flaget High School, 4000 block of W. Broadway

house and pond on top of Jacobs Hill? (top of Iroquois Park, N/NW)

same pond as.037 with children swimming

back of Kenwood Hill, aka "Devil's Backbone" (across from Iroquois Park)

bridge over Beargrass Creek (Frankfort Ave (?), Brownsboro Road (?), Cherokee Park (?), Lexington Road (?)

2 women and 1 man in Shawnee Park

2 women and 1 man in Shawnee Park

2 women and 1 man in Shawnee Park

Shawnee Park

Shawnee Park

Riverview Park

Ohio river by Shawnee Park, remains of a boat wreck (?), or coaling point (where barges unload coal)

view downstream of 14th Street Bridge (Pennsylvania Bridge), first bridge built in Louisville, original truss designed by Albert Fink, who become Chief Engineer of L & N RR. It's THE way to build bridges before steel and I beams. Built: replaced, 1873

Louisville Wharf, large barrels (hoggshead) contain tobacco leaves. City of Louisville (built or City of Cincinnati (built in background, 1894)

K & I Bridge (second bridge in Louisville, built: or 4 replaced: Stern wheeler heading upstream to locks, 1883

stern wheeler in the locks

stern wheeler leaving locks, 26th Street Bridge & Tarascon, Shipping port in background on island

house boat "Watts" end of Jackson (?), coal business (?) for fuel for steamboats (private business)

E.A. Woodruff snag boat @ 5th Street. Govt. boat to pull snags or clean up wreckage in the river

E.A. Woodruff snag boat @ 5th Street. Govt. boat to pull snags or clean up wreckage in the river

City of Jeffersonville excursion/ferry boat at the ferry dock

W.C. Hite coming up to ferry dock, ice in Ohio River, Jeffersonville in background

City of Louisville, Big Four Bridge in the background at Coast Guard station or "U.S. Life-Saving Station"

City of Louisville, Big Four Bridge in the background at Coast Guard station or "U.S. Life-Saving Station" (24-hour watch in the winter)

Pennsylvania Bridge in the background, coal station & barge in foreground

Pennsylvania Bridge in the background, coal station & barge in foreground

"Lucile and Grace" (McDowell?), 1903

towboat Atlas Coal switching out coal towboats. Big Four Bridge in the background, hazy & ice

"ice blockade" steam boat

"ice blockade" steam boat, Tow Head island in background (tows and barges took refuge, shanty boats...)

"Pumpkin Patch"

Big Four Bridge, man walking across on sidewalk

Big Four Bridge, sidewalk

L & N shops (built locomotives from ground up), RR coal trestle in background

L & N round house, South Louisville