Image from Walter Whipple Spooner's "The Back-woodsmen : or, Tales of the Borders; a Collection of Historical and Authentic Accounts of Early Adventure Among the Indians." Engraved image features emigrants on a boat passing along on the Ohio River.
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.
