Water flows out of two spouts in an artesian mineral water well, landing in two buckets. To the right of the well, a man is drinking from a cup. Left of the well, a woman; three men; and a boy pose for the camera. The well is situated on some lumpy...
A car labeled "World's Fair Auto Transit Co." filled with riders passes in front of two horse sculptures at the edge of the "Grand Canal" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The Palace of Education and Social Economy is...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Bagobo (Philippine people); Indigenous peoples; Men
Young man with hair to his waist over a bead-adorned jacket and shorts, posing outdoors in front of trees. He is likely Bulon, a nineteen-year-old Bagobo Moro (a Muslim tribe from the western coast of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands). Since the...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, three barefoot men in bead-adorned shorts, jackets, and sheaths, each wearing a different style of hat, hold swords. Behind them is a hut and trees. They are Bagobo Moros, a Muslim tribe from the western...
Baptist churches; Churches; Education; Universities & colleges; Men; Liberty Female College
The Baptist Church of Glasgow, Kentucky, a brick church with a pointed turret and arched windows, is seen in the foreground; a man in a suit stands in front along one of the weathered picket fences encircling parts of the yard, which also contains...
A church in Winchester, Kentucky, misidentified in the Ford albums as a Baptist church (a postcard of the same large brick church with a prominent bell tower, fronted by a brick sidewalk bore the title First Presbyterian Church).
Theological seminaries; Historic buildings; Men; Boys
Baptist seminary in London, Kentucky is a simple-lined brick building with a two-story mid-section with a pediment supported by square brick pillars, and two one-and-a-half-story wings. A man in a suit stands on the porch, and two barefoot boys in...
A crowd of African Americans, mostly men and boys, stop beside a cart of tobacco and in front of a three-story dark wood building which has an awning over the first floor. One man in front holds a load of tobacco. A man sits on the awning and two...
A group of men, two in suits and the rest in work clothes, in front of the Bean Brothers carriage shop (possibly in Clark County, Kentucky), with several carriage wheels.
Over two dozen young women, graduates of Beaumont College, which existed from 1895-1915, and an older man stand or sit in front of a tree, behind a small, stone-edged road or path. There are more trees in the background, as well as a horse and...
Twenty-one college women in pale striped shirts and dark skirts stand and sit in a group with five musical instruments, some chains of flowers, and a pillow decorated with a musical staff as well as some other decorative pillows. They are in front...
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, an Ainu woman in a robe and scarf bends down to greet Lorenza, a Tehuelche woman (from Santa Cruz, Argentina) wearing a string headband who is sitting on the dirt ground wrapped in a blanket in which she...
A steamboat with two large tiers and a small third tier that is inscribed with "Stellawilds" is parked at Paducah Drydock on the Mississippi River. The dry dock is a platform in the river shallows at river height, and has segments of...
About two dozen men pose with a dry docked boat, which has a small cabin. The boat is high above the dock, and ladders run up to the boat. One man sits on the boat with his leg hanging over the edge. The dock is covered in small pieces of wood and...
Caves; Rock formations; Historic sites; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
A man sits atop a large rock formation, with a boarded up entrance to a cave below. Kentucky explorer and early settler Daniel Boone spent the winter of 1769-1770 in a cave on the Shawnee River in Mercer County, Kentucky.
The lower part of an oil derrick; within its base is an open-mouthed wood structure the width of the base, inside which a few men are standing. There are several small wood shacks to the left of the oil well, with a man nearby, and a man a stands...
Exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Enclosed by an open, pillared wall, a sign over one segment reads, "Coffee Exportation, annual mean for the years 1899-1903 in bags of 60 kilograms; every bag represents 50000 bags; Brazil...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Railroads
Brazil Exhibit at World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, consisting of four model horses and one model ox (all are harnessed) in an open, pillared room with two signs on interior walls saying, "Estrada de Ferro Central do Brazil" (the name...
