For Your Viewing Pleasure

What's really neat about old boat photos is what you can find. Like the four guys with a ladder working on the forward roof and the two really neat hulls showing. One alongside and the other in the background tied off to a wharfboat?? Nice photo

Here's for an "identify the boat" challenge! Anyone know anything about that little "barge" next to the City of Louisville in the photo above? It looks way to sleek to be a standard old barge, looks like it has some history. Former wooden hulled sidewheeler?

In 1893 and 1894 Howard's built a fleet of six 135' x 28' x 5' model barges for the Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. They cost $3,650.00 each. That is one of them.

Imagine Standing Next To Capt. Jim

Imagine standing next to Capt. Jim Howard as he was preparing to take this picture and saying to him, "Capt Jim in a hundred years or so almost everyone in the civilized world will have a box in their homes. With that box anyone could put in the picture you are about to take,press a button and that picture will go all around the world instantly, and everyone in the world will be able to see it." Think he'd throw you in the river?
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Close up of the model barge. Wouldn't it make a dandy houseboat hull!

WOW! I had no idea that would be so easy...just goes to show how awesome it is to have such capabilities Jim, then internet and how we're so connected these days. Thanks for the input Cap'n Bates!

HAY ALL;;;
Nice pix JIM,,,.. Wish I could have made it down for Monday,,..

Captain Jim would have said, "I believe it will happen."

Just before he died, he told me, "I don't mind dying and being dead. I just hate to miss what's coming next."

Photo Technical Question

That is a great quote from Capt. Jim.
A technical question about this forum and the great photos. Is there a zoom feature that I am missing out on. All I can do is click on the photo offered and a small version shows up in the middle of my screen. Is there some way to zoom in closer to find the great details here? I think I am missing something.....not the first time.

What a legacy Capt. Jim left us with all those hundreds of FABULOUS PHOTOS he took of steamboats and other Howard Shipyard activities. I am so sorry that I arrived on the planet too late to know Capt. Jim, as there are a lot of questions I'd love to ask him! But I was VERY fortunate to know Loretta and she talked about Capt. Jim so much that I felt that, through her, I did know him if only vicariously.

By the way, the camera that Capt. Jim used to take those glass plate images is on display at the museum. The glass plates are safely stored at the University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

Click on the thumbnail photo, then click on the enlarged version. The picture will go to a blank page. On the right side of the control panel, click on "page". The resulting window should have a zoom feature. However, the resolution on that picture was not very high, so it got blurry as I enlarged it. I just discovered this. I have Windows XP. Presumably, you could also print out the enlarged version. Hope this helps.

Back again. I tried printing out an enlarged version of the giant balls on the Bisso crane. It worked. Also, that photo had better resolution and enlarging it did not have as much blurring.

Thanks Lex. It worked. Now I can zoom in on the details.

Ted here's the way I do it. First of all you need a good photo. I scan the photo in at 600 DPI which makes a large file that can be enlarged with out much lose of resolution. Are you using the PICASA 3 program, which you can get for free through the link on steamboats. org? It's a good photo program, particularly now with the retouch feature.
Anyway here's how I do it. I crop the area I want to enlarge...then hit apply and only the enlarged part remains. Then I export the enlarged part to My Pictures. Then go back into PICASA and undo the crop and you have your original picture back. It sounds complicated but it's easy with a little practice.

Thanks! I've been wondering how to do this and how everyone else is able to see details that I have been unable to distinguish.