Based on note made when this image was acquired, it is believed to be Amelia Weissinger Cochran. She was the mother of Hattie Cochran, the real-life model for the title character in Annie Fellows Johnston's series of Little Colonel books. Title...
Women; Trails & paths; Dirt roads; Dogs; Baskets; Country life
A woman, with a large basket of laundry balanced on her head, walks home with a dog at the end of the day. A single, small wooden house sits behind a fence. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also...
A portrait of Mrs. Annie Craig, the real-life model for the character Grandmother MacIntyre in the Little Colonel books written by Annie Fellows Johnston. She is wearing a black lace dress and light reflects off her silver hair. Annie was the widow...
Hattie Cochran and Annie Fellows Johnston pose with the book, "The Little Colonel at Boarding School" (1903). They are sitting on a small wood settee in front of a bookcase by a window. Hattie, the real-life person upon whom Annie Fellows...
Annie Fellows Johnston and Hattie Cochran pose under trees on the driveway at The Beeches, an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Mrs. Johnston holds an open parasol over her right shoulder. Hattie is the real-life person upon whom Annie Fellows...
Annie Fellows Johnston and Hattie Cochran pose under trees on the driveway at The Beeches, an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. They are holding hands and Mrs. Johnston holds a folded parasol in her other hand. Hattie is the real-life person upon...
Photograph of an oil painting by Herbert Ross of Annie Fellows Johnston, author of the Little Colonel series of children's books. Title supplied by cataloger.
Young woman in an antebellum dress and bonnet is picking flowers outside the open windows of a home. On the oval print's lower right border is photographer Kate Matthews' signature and also in her handwriting "June, 1860". Given that...
Tree-lined Ashwood Avenue in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "'Ashwood Avenue". Inscriptions in the album, which Kate Matthews gave to her great-nephew, Charles B. Fletcher, Jr., include:...
The photographer's sister, Florence Matthews, poses with a sled and a dog in a snow scene in Vermont. Handwritten on verso: "With Christmas Love, To Florence, From Kate" An inscription on another print of this image (1985.09.021)...
The tree-covered path alongside Central Avenue in front of the old Post Office in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The sign on the tree reads: "Pewee Valley Post Office" and the front of the post office building is visible behind the tree on the...
A beech tree with letters carved into the bark of the trunk apparently commemorating an event or relationship. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the album page. Title supplied by cataloger.
A large two-story frame house with a front porch spanning its entire width, is partially obscured by large trees. The home, known as The Beeches, was once owned by the Lawtons, the model for the Walton family in the Little Colonel books. The author...
A large two-story frame house with a front porch spanning the entire width of the building is partially obscured by large trees. The home, known as The Beeches, was once owned by the Lawtons, who were models for the Walton family in the Little...
Large two-story frame house, with a front porch spanning its entire width, is partially obscured by large trees. The home, known as The Beeches, was once owned by the Lawtons, who were models for the Walton family in the Little Colonel book series....
A circular driveway leads to The Beeches, Annie Fellows Johnston's home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The two-story frame house is partially obscured by large beech trees. Two women sit in the shade of a tree on the left. Mrs. Johnston bought The...
Elizabeth Matthews Feagin sits in a large wooden chair with a book in her lap, her right elbow on the arm of the chair and her chin in her hand. The pose resembles that in a rather famous photograph taken of Elizabeth decades earlier when she...
