Color cardstock promotional card printed for B.F. Avery & Sons, Plows and Agricultural Implements, Louisville, Kentucky. The inside of the card is an ad for the Avery Universal Plow, featuring a lithograth of Neptune plowing the Isthmus of Panama with an Avery Plow pulled by two horses. The back of the card depicts a horse falling in a field, with an attached plow and laborer in the air behind it. On the otherside of a fence, a horse is calmly pulling an Avery Plow while the laborer guiding the plow looks at the other person. Below the scene is the text "If you're trying to fly, you're all right
Print of the 1883 Louisville Fair Association exposition building. The Louisville Fair Association organized the forerunner of the Kentucky State Fair, undated.
This cottage was erected for the Southern Exposition by the Swiss colonists in Kentucky, under the direct of the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Bureau of Immigration. Photographed by E. Klauber in 1883.
Mule-drawn streetcar in front of Southern Exposition building, 1883. Mule-drawn streetcars were eventually replaced by the faster and more comfortable electric streetcars. Louisville's first electric streetcar line began operation in 1889.
Color lithograph of the Southern Exposition buildings, 1883. An electric rail line, visible in the background, circled the Exposition grounds and delighted visitors by traversing an underground tunnel lit by Edison's incandescent bulbs.
