Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Stoves; People
A nurse stands by a cast iron stove pouring something from a tea kettle into a bowl. She is dressed in white with a scarf on her head. The little girl watches her. Herbs and bowls are hanging from the walls and ceiling.
Floods; Western Union Telegraph Company; Hotels; Disaster relief; People; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville
Address: 612 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. In 1937, after a January of intense rainfall, the Ohio River Valley flooded. The 1937 flood was one of Louisville's greatest natural disasters. This photo shows police and Kentucky State Health...
Nell Davis, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England), sits by a brick fireplace playing a mountain dulcimer with a quill. A kettle hangs in the hearth, and a spinning wheel appears at right.
Nell Davis, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England), sits by a brick fireplace playing a mountain dulcimer with a quill. A kettle hangs in the hearth, and a spinning wheel appears at right.
Stoves; Porches; Country life; Girls; Crying; Pain
A crying girl stands next to a hot stove sitting on a large stone on a cabin porch. She may have found the kettle or stove too hot, or she may have hit her hand. Title supplied by cataloger.
African-American men, women, and children sit and stand under a small wood shelter. They are sharing food that is being cooked in a large black kettle that sits over a fire pit. One man is wearing a cap that appears to read ". . State...
Hearth in log cabin owned by Samuel W. Hegan, father of Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." A kettle hangs on the left side of the fireplace and other personal items decorate the room. Inscription on...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: dozens of children gathering eggs from chicken coop and series of henhouses; boy reading on stoop, surrounded by barnyard animals including cat, dog, goose, sheep, pig, turkey, and...
Four people in front of a log cabin with shingled roof and stone chimney. An elderly man sits in a chair with two children standing on either side of him and two children sitting at his feet. A large cluster of trees is visible behind the cabin....
