Delacoosha, an estate in Pewee Valley, was owned by Albert Burge in the late nineteenth century. Annie Fellows Johnston was visiting the Burges when she met Hattie Cochran, Rebecca Porter, and the Old Colonel, George Washington Weissinger, and was...
Giant's Coffin in Mammoth Cave. This rock formation, resembling a large coffin, is forty feet long, twenty feet wide, and eight feet high. It is on the right of the Main Cave, one mile from the entrance. Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in...
Buildings; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Machinery
A giant wheel-and-pulley system is shown inside the Kentucky Pipe Line Company building. The building appears to be lined in sheet metal. On the wall to the right is a desk attached to a series of meters. Handwritten on the photograph is:...
Address: 728 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. The Welsworth Hotel was built in the Italianate style. Its pediment and eaves have modillions supporting them and the arch above the entryway has dentils under it. Notice the changing shape of the...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
Children; Animals; Men; Play (Recreation); Toys; Campaigns & battles; Flowers; Trees; Buildings; Body parts; Military personnel; Reading; Indians of North America; Maps; Alphabets (Writing systems); People associated with religion
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: rat and boy among plants; man in wide-brimmed hat, cape, and sash riding horse, holding onto long whip; boy spinning top while little girl watches; men battling with swords and guns...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: woman seated in chair, reading; boy in sailor suit standing on shore, pointing to approaching ship; children riding in horse-drawn sleigh; dog and sheep; man on horseback approaching...
Animals; Money; Boston Tea Party, 1773; Demonstrations; Costumes; Children; Men; Women; Snow; Play (Recreation); Kites; Domestic life; Reading; Sewing; Monks; Rescue work; Windmills; Indians of North America
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the dog dropping something in water, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: dog...
Flooded field with a barbed wire fence running around the perimeter and through the giant pool of water. Farm buildings are in the background. Title supplied by cataloger.
Construction; Construction equipment; Hoisting machinery; Roads; Dirt roads
Multiple views of a construction site with a giant hole and mounds of dirt surrounded by a dirt road. Cranes and other construction machinery are on site.Title supplied by cataloger.
A group of uniformed Salvation Army members stand on stage along with a group of children, some holding American flags, and props including a giant pot of Peacock Coffee (with mug); an oversized "In God We Trust" coin (dated 1932); a drum...
