Mammoth Cave Hotel at Mammoth Cave National Park, built by John Croghan in 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1916. Hotel was 200 feet long with piazzas extending the whole length of the building and two buildings adjacent to each end which held a...
A runged, metal oil derrick which narrows at the top is shooting oil and surrounded by two low, sloping wood structures. The well is set back in a field in front of a row of leafy trees.
A rock cliff curves around a plunge pool. The rock cliff is very high on the left side and has trees visible above the right side. A light stream of water falls from the center of the cliff into the pool. At the foreground of the photograph, a...
Oil well drilling rigs; Oil wells; Men; Smokestacks
An oil derrick with a projecting wood chute and wooden shelter. There are wood boards lying on the ground. Left of the derrick, two men stand in front of a cylindrical engine which is blowing steam. Further left is a smokestack.
Rock cliff with hanging icicles. Below the cliff is a flat-topped log also bearing icicles. Beyond the cliff are closely spaced, tall, narrow, bare trees, although there is a clearing in front of the cliff, at the photograph's left. The ground is...
Entrance to Mammoth Cave: a large hole with foliage on its far side and a rocky dirt path which curves around it at the front of the photograph. Along the rim of the cave there is an interesting tree which grows horizontally and is curved in the...
A man stands and waves something above his head at the very top of an oil derrick. Another man stands at the top edge of the wooden structure within the derrick. Four men stand on the ground alongside the derrick. The projecting part of the wood...
Governors; Military personnel; Tents; Flags--United States
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, who served as governor of Kentucky from 1900-1907, and four men in military uniform stand in a row in front of a tent flanked by smaller tents, with an American flag and another flag on poles.
