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...
Petroleum industry; Railroad stations; Railroad tracks; Railroad cars; Children; Boys
View of railroad tracks, an oil derrick, and several small buildings, including one bearing the name "The Inter-State Petroleum Co." A boy stands in profile at the top of the embankment near the tracks. A few more children stand in front...
Two-story wood building with a three-story brick building to its right. The larger building has an awning and "Uniontown-Roller Mills" painted at its top. One man stands in the doorway of the smaller building; one man stands between the...
Dwellings; Mansions; Ponies; Men; Women; Children; Boys; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Two-story light-colored brick house with two-story ionic pedestals and pediment. People sit on the porch and porch steps, and a boy sits casually on a pony by the steps. A tree covers the left part of the house.
Three men and two boys pose in front of an open-sided sawmill, with two other men seated on logs visible in the background and many cut boards on the ground. A team of oxen are hitched to a wagon hauling a large log in the background.
Electric automobiles; Men; Women; Boys; Dwellings; Houses
The McCracken County, Kentucky postmaster's house is a two-story dormered brick house with a corner porch that curves around a turret. A man sits on the porch; a boy sits on a smaller second floor porch; a woman holding a broom stands in the yard,...
Small, one-story building of vertical wood boards labeled "Uniontown," with a small sign saying "Postal Telegraph Office." A train (number 1748) passes along a track to the right. In between the building and track stand ten men...
Women; Boys; Dwellings; Houses; Stone buildings; Hitching posts; Windmills; Dirt roads; Religious communities; Shakers; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Several women wearing dark dresses and white bonnets stand in the front yard of a large white stone house. Another woman stands on a stone platform at the gate of a picket fence that apparently runs the length of a row of houses. A boy stands on...
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...
Boy on a porch of a log cabin in Letcher County, Kentucky "gritting" corn by scraping an ear of corn along a rough board and catching the grits in a large bowl.
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.
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...
An old man wearing a torn shirt and a wide brimmed hat and holding a pickaxe stands with a boy, in suspenders or overalls and also in a hat, in front of a coal opening on Lum Drake farm. They are covered in dust. The coal opening is a stout...
A woman spinning wool with a great wheel or "walking wheel" in front of a wooden house with a large stone chimney in Harlan County, Kentucky. A young woman with a baby on her lap sits in a chair next to the spinning wheel. A man sits on...
A woman sits in front of a house in Harlan County, Kentucky, spinning flax with a flax wheel. Behind her is a large stone chimney. A man and a boy sit on the front porch, and a young boy sits in a chair in the front of the house.
A small barefoot boy with long hair and a hat sits atop a thin dark horse and turns to face the camera while a small white dog with black ears lies on the dirt road, probably in Butler County, Kentucky. In the background are wood buildings, the one...
A one-story white wood house with a large, central dormer over the front porch. A small girl sits on the top of the porch steps, and a small boy and dog stand in the open gate of a white picket fence bordering the yard. There are trees to the sides...
A man wearing a turban sits on a camel, probably in Festival Hall at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds a stick, and is seated behind what appear to be a pair of drums. A man with a walking stick wearing a turban and white robe...
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...
