Portrait of the photographer's mother, Charlotta Anne Clark Matthews, also known as Grandmother Matthews. Signed by photographer on mount below lower right edge of print: "Kate Matthews, Feb. 1910 (or perhaps 1908)." Title supplied by...
A copy photograph of a framed portrait of a dark-haired woman with hair pulled back, wearing a black dress with white collar. She may be Jean Thomas' grandmother, Sarah Mefford Bell. The name Mary Culbertson has also been associated with this...
Charlotta Matthews, wearing a long dark dress, stands at the top of the terrace steps at Clovercroft, the Matthews family home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "Grandmother Matthews"....
Amanthis Jungbluth poses as Grandmother Amanthis Lloyd, deceased wife of the Old Colonel in the Little Colonel book series. Wearing a dark lace shawl and a dark hat with a light veil, Amanthis stands in profile next to a stone pillar on the porch...
Charlotta Matthews serves tea to her sons Edward and Michael on the lawn at their family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Handwritten on mount in an unidentified handwriting: "Grandmother Matthews serves tea to Edward and...
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...
Jean Thomas, wearing a coat and tam, walks through the gate of a frame house that may have belonged to her paternal grandmother, Sarah Mefford Bell. The man and woman are unidentified. Title supplied by cataloger.
Jean Thomas, wearing a coat and tam, stands near the chimney of a frame house that may have belonged to her paternal grandmother, Sarah Mefford Bell. Title supplied by cataloger.
Portrait of Edith Marie Cress. In 1908, when Edith was a 12-year-old orphan living with her poor grandmother, she wanted an education so desperately that she took what few clothes she had and began to walk over twenty-five miles to ask Professor...
Boys; People with disabilities; Women; Beds; Chairs
A boy with an injured leg lies in bed. A woman, probably his mother or grandmother, sits in the chair next to the bed. The walls are covered with newspapers and there is a shelf on the wall next to the bed. Handwritten on bottom border: 509. See...
Portrait of the photographer's mother, Charlotte Anne Clark Matthews, also known as Grandmother Matthews. Handwritten on verso: "Photographed Jan. 1906." Title supplied by cataloger.
A two-story house with a large front porch sits behind several large trees. Built around 1855, the house was originally called "Sunnyside." It was renamed "Edgewood" by the Craig family around the time of the Civil War. Mrs....
