A group of men in suits and hats, evidently members of the Hopkinsville Bankers Association, stand in front of the Hotel Latham. This Italian Renaissance style hotel was erected in 1894, and named for Hopkinsville native and philanthropist, John C....
Jefferson Davis Memorial seen from road between Russellsville and Hopkinsville in Fairview, Kentucky. A car drives into the distance on a road with a fence and church on the left and many trees and an obelisk on the right, the Jefferson Davis...
Entrance to Jefferson Davis monument, Fairview, Kentucky. Stone stairs lead to the base of the stone monument, which features a shadowy door or entrance surrounded by an edifice which is slightly peaked on top.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Monuments & memorials; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
A Baptist church in Fairview, Kentucky, obscures all but the top of a monument dedicated to Jefferson Davis two years before his death. Trees line the dirt road tapering into the distance, where there are cars. On back of image: "Fairview, Ky....
Bethel Baptist Church, a two-story brick church with a steeple, sloped roof, and turrets, was built in 1901 near the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The first floor windows and the...
A group of men with mule-drawn wagons stand on a road with a table in the middle of it. The table has a stack of cans arranged on it and there is a shovel, axe and sledge hammer arranged leaning on one another in the road in front of the table.
Deer and turkeys in a large fenced area with small trees and shrubs and corn cobs on the ground. I. H. Wheatcroft, owner of this hunting ground, was president of Wheatcroft Coal & Mining Co., Wheatcroft, Kentucky.
A view of the Empire Coal Company alongside railroad tracks, with several railroad cars loaded with coal. A person is standing on the tracks and another is standing on top of a railroad car full of coal. Steam or smoke rises around the cars,...
A view of the Empire Coal Company alongside railroad tracks bearing two railroad cars loaded with coal and three men overseeing the process. On the right there is a horse and buggy and several small buildings which may be employee housing. A couple...
Deer; Turkeys; Men; Game preserves; Animal feeding
A man in a long coat and hat standing among the deer and turkeys in I. H. Wheatcroft's deer park (hunting ground). There is a burlap bag at his feet and corncobs on the ground. I. H. Wheatcroft was president of Wheatcroft Coal & Mining Co.,...
A group of miners, both black and white, from St. Bernard Coal Company at Martins Gap in Christian County, Kentucky. Some of the men are sitting on mules in the back row, and a few have dinner pails.
A group of men standing around a row of cars filled with coal at St. Bernard Coal Company in Christian County, Kentucky. The mine face or entrance is in the background.
Men at St. Bernard Coal Company in Christian County, Kentucky stand on the second story of the structure and near the mule-drawn wagons in front of the building, and one perches on a carload of coal stationed on the railroad tracks adjacent to the...
Miners at St. Bernard Coal Company in Christian County, Kentucky, posed near a row of cars filled with coal from the mine and flanked by men on horseback.
Monuments & memorials; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Parks
Woodland park behind Jefferson Davis monument in Fairview, Kentucky. Two suited men stand with a small boy between them (holding the hand of the man at right) amid tall slender trees, with a faint white vision of the Jefferson Davis monument in the...
