Sketch of champion harness racer Prince Wilkes, with the horse racing and pulling a jockey in a sulky, or two-wheeled cart. "D. W. Smith, 1887" is written in the left corner, and "2.14 3/4" and "Prince Wilkes" in the...
Four carts, each led by a mule team and carrying passengers, in front of a small, open-sided shack in the woods, at the base of a large hill covered in bare trees. Four onlookers stand in a row at the edge of the shack, to the left of which is a...
A team of horses and mules, one with a rider, pull four men (three standing, one sitting) on a cart. One man holds onto a large wheel. Two men stand on the dirt road; one is holding onto a yoke. At the right of the road are some unpainted wood...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Horses; Farms; Horse farms; African Americans; Men; Boys
A group of six brood mares and six colts in a field behind the main house at Woodburn farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. A white man and three African American boys hold the mares with ropes attached to halters. A white man with a white beard and a...
Broom & brush industry; Industrial facilities; Brooms & brushes; Men
Seven men work at different stages of making brooms in front of a building of unpainted, long vertical wood boards. The building has two peaked roofs and several porches with slanting roofs. A row of brooms leans along the front porch railings;...
A group of nine people, mostly women, eat burgoo (spicy stew, a specialty of Western Kentucky) in the woods; a man in suspenders smiles and ladles the burgoo. One woman sits on a tree trunk also used as a table. Two people sit in a cart and two...
A man sits on a circular stone wall in the middle of a field. This is the burial place of Colonel Gabriel Slaughter (1767-1830), a politician who served in the Kentucky state house of representatives (1797), Kentucky state senate (1801), and as...
Five turbaned men and two harnessed donkeys in front of a building with a metal grid, part of the "Orient" concession along the "Pike" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On the building to the left of the grid, a notice...
A group of people and a couple of dogs on the bank of a stream. Two women are fishing in the foreground and several others are fishing further downstream. This group is apparently visiting the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
