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  Service Club

  Construction of Camp Zachary Taylor, possibly the Service Club.
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  Armored train in France

  A heavily armored engine leads a train through the French countryside.
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  Soldiers at an encampment in France

  A soldier sits by field tents with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
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  Inside the cabin of the Robert E. Lee, n.d.

  Interior cabin of the Robert E. Lee. The Robert E. Lee, nicknamed the "Monarch of the Mississippi," was built in New Albany, Indiana, in 1866. The hull was designed by DeWitt Hill, and the boat cost more than $200,000 to build.
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  United States Steamer "Lexington," ca. 1861

  U. S. steamer Lexington, labeled "United States Steamer Lexington" at the base of the drawing, which is signed "F. Muller," image from the Herald-Post.
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  Steamboat Tarascon

  The steamboat Tarascon was built in 1863 for the Louisville and Henderson Mail Line. It was used in service during the Civil War.
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  Steamboat Congo

  Men loading whiskey barrels onto the Steamboat Congo in Prestonville, Kentucky, during the fall of 1893. The captain was George H. Simpson of Madison, Indiana, and the clerk was Shuley Bradley. The Congo was a sternwheel packet that ran between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. She was built in Harmar, Ohio, in 1890. She collided with a barge and sank in 1896.
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  Steamboat on river

  An unidentified image of a steamboat on a river, undated.
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  Steamer Southland

  Southland, built by Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1910, was originally named Nashville. It was rebuilt at Paducah, Kentucky, in 1922 and named Southland. It ran from Louisville to Stephensport to Evansville. It burned on December 16, 1932. Here it is shown at the Louisville Waterfront, ca. 1922 to ca. 1930.
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  Steamboat being constructed

  Unidentified image of a steamboat being constructed, undated.
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  The Steamer Sprague

  The Sprague built at Dubuque, Iowa's Iowa Iron Works in 1901 by Captain Peter Sprague for the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, was the world's largest steam powered sternwheeler towboat. She was nicknamed Big Mama, and was capable of pushing 56 coal barges at once. In 1907 Sprague set a world's all-time record for towing: 60 barges of coal, weighing 67,307 tons, covering an area of 6 1/2 acres and measuring 925 feet (282 m) by 312 feet (95 m).
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  Charles T. Campbell Towboat

  Charles T. Campbell, Towboat (1936-1937) was built by Dravo in Neville Island, Pennsylvania, for the Camp Transportation Co., Pittsburgh. Sold in 1947, its name was changed to the John J. Rowe.
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  Steamboat Disaster on the Ohio

  Hand-colored print from Harper's Weekly showing the collision and fire when the steamboats America and United States collided on December 4, 1868.
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  General Pike Broadside

  Broadside advertising the Regular Packet General Pike with Captain William F. Fuller and E. Eugene Bowers, Clerk. Customers are advisted to apply for freight or passage on board or at the Cincinnati Daily Commerical Steam Press.
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  Through the Bayou by Torchlight, n.d.

  A Currier & Ives lithograph of a steamboat moving through the bayou with torchlight, undated. Printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced some of the most popular American art of the 19th century. The company specialized in publishing inexpensive hand-colored lithographic prints for the growing American middle class.
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  Derby hats

  Kentucky Derby hats are a long-standing tradition started by women; however men have taken part in the tradition as well over the years. For well-to-do late 19th and early 20th century women, Derby day was an opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions.
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  Today's "Long Shot" at Churchill Downs

  Vintage postcard, Greetings from Louisville, KY. Today's "Long Shot" at Churchill Downs, undated.
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  Aerial view of the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center

  Postcard of an aerial view of the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center that was completed in 1956. The back reads, "The new state fairgrounds cover an area of 375 acres, and the entire cost is $16,000,000. The large Stadium, shown in center, has a seating capacity of 25,000."
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  Fontaine Fox at the drawing board, n.d.

  Fontaine Fox sketches the Toonerville Trolley, the rickety trolley car that would become the iconic image of his fictional suburban town.
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  Fontaine Fox with his family, n.d.

  Fontaine Fox, his wife Edith, and his daughters Edith "Elizabeth" and Mary. Fox denied that either of his daughters provided the inspiration for his Tomboy Taylor character.