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...
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...
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.
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...
Dwellings; Mansions; Stone buildings; Men; Children; Girls; Hunting trophies
Romanesque Revival residence of Daniel Lawson Moore (founder of D. L. Moore Distillery and state senator): a stone building with a crenellated tower; dormers; and a front porch with arched pillars and, above, a balcony rail. On the porch, which...
Distilling industry; Buildings; Wooden buildings; Men
This distillery is a large building surrounded by a wood fence. Several men look out of the second story windows. Two men push a cart down a ramp from the second story on the other side of the building. There is dark smoke coming out a chimney.
This distillery is a large building surrounded by a wood fence. In the foreground are two chickens and a cow. Barrels are visible through some of the windows.
Two men on a pontoon bridge starting across the Dix River. A road and several paths lead down to the river, and a house is up the road among the trees.
Black men and boys with fishing poles sit at the top of a log dam beside a building made of logs and stone. Below the dam, two white men in a boat with a paddle appear to be fixing the fishing line of one of the boys.
Large, ivy-covered three-story brick home with columns. People look out of the open windows, and two men are sitting on a bench in the front along with two dogs, while a woman stands on the porch and another man and a woman stand to the side. A...
A group of black and white men and boys stand on the banks of a stream, separated from a row of houses with picket fences by a dirt road lined with utility poles. Downstream from the group there is a small bridge and more houses. Apparently this...
Over a dozen men and women lounge in four clumps on the large rocks surrounding a placid, unevenly shaped river which at the front of the photograph widens and branches around a boulder. Some rowboats are parked on either side of the water. The...
Drawing of a dark stallion named Gambonito. At the bottom of the drawing, a scroll reads: "Gambonito, 8419. 2:27 1/2, property of W. M. Rue and Son." (The rest of the scroll is illegible.) Gambonito is listed in the Year Book, Trotting...
Men; African Americans; Men; Springs; Stone buildings; Stone walls; Springs; Horses; Carriages & coaches; Dirt roads
Four men (three white, one black) sit on the stone wall next to a small stone structure over a spring. There is a horse-drawn carriage on the dirt road beside the spring.
A horse and wagon travel on Harrodsburg Pike, a dirt road running alongside a stone fence. The property beyond the fence includes a large home. Title supplied by cataloger.
