Tipples; Buildings; Mine buildings; Mine railroads; Mine railroad cars; Men
View of the Nortonville Coal Company, with a man overseeing a row of railroad cars pulled up to be filled. One of the stacks emits black smoke, and some white steam billows out of the building.
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...
A hotel in Cerulean Springs, consisting of a three-story main building with porches on each story and dormer windows on the top floor, and a long two-story building with porches on both stories and benches on the first-story porch. Two men sit on...
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....
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.,...
Several women in long dresses and hats, one with a parasol, and several children sit on a rocky wooded hillside, presumably at the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
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.
Women; Children; Rock formations; Leisure; Bridges
Several women in long dresses and hats, one with a parasol, and several children stand on or by a small footbridge connecting two rocky ledges in the woods. This group is apparently visiting the mineral springs in Cerulean Springs.
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.
