Three men break hemp on a rolling field of hemp and craggy trees, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Two men operate hand brakes and the man in center holds aloft a mass of hemp dangling to the ground like a large blanket. A shack and outhouse...
Outside a wooden house with one and two story sections, a horse and buggy is parked and another horse grazes beside a tree. A woman and two children or--possibly--seated adults sit on the porch, and a man leans on the outside of a four board fence...
Four many-passengered canoes float low in the water on a placid lake glinting in the sun; one woman holds a parasol and some passengers wear hats. Part of a rocky shore is visible in the photograph's lower right corner. The backdrop of the lake is...
Two women (one of whom is African American) and two men stand spaced apart in front of a substantial two story stone and brick house, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Several outbuildings surround the building, along with a number of large,...
A man and two women pose at the center of the photograph, having climbed a good way up a vertical cliff of rock strata and occasional patches of weeds.
Over a dozen men and women lounge in four clumps on the large rocks surrounding a placid, unevenly shaped river which at the front of the photograph widens and branches around a boulder. Some rowboats are parked on either side of the water. The...
A placid river cuts diagonally across the left part of the photograph, with large bare trees growing close to the river and leaning inward on either side of the river. A fence also edges the left bank, and at a greater distance on the right is a...
A man in black holding a black umbrella (the day is pleasant) stands with downcast eyes among old, slanting, white, gravestones with rounded tops in a yard with high grass, weeds, and several trees.
Over two dozen young women, graduates of Beaumont College, which existed from 1895-1915, and an older man stand or sit in front of a tree, behind a small, stone-edged road or path. There are more trees in the background, as well as a horse and...
A man, his back to the camera, stands viewing the gently rolling countryside, which is marked here and there by wood or stone fences and occasionally edged by trees. A barn can be seen in the distance.
Two men in hats and a woman with a parasol sit in a rowboat at the edge of a river. The man in center is sitting on a raised seat. Right behind the rowboat is a conical boulder. The shallows and shore are rocky. Beyond the rocks the area is...
Horizontal oval photograph of a man in hat and vest standing behind a flock of ten white sheep, many of them grazing, in a huddle near a tree. Behind the tree is a split rail fence and some rolling fields.
Twenty-one college women in pale striped shirts and dark skirts stand and sit in a group with five musical instruments, some chains of flowers, and a pillow decorated with a musical staff as well as some other decorative pillows. They are in front...
Four men stand and five women sit in front of a large log house with a shingled roof and stone chimney. A small round-topped leafy tree grows in front of the house; there are bare trees to the sides of the house.
A man sits on a two-wheeled cart holding the reins of a dark horse for balance as they pose for the camera. There are a few leaves on the ground, and beyond the man and horse are some trees which are starting to lose their leaves. Beyond the trees...
Women; Boys; Dwellings; Houses; Stone buildings; Hitching posts; Windmills; Dirt roads; Religious communities; Shakers; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Several women wearing dark dresses and white bonnets stand in the front yard of a large white stone house. Another woman stands on a stone platform at the gate of a picket fence that apparently runs the length of a row of houses. A boy stands on...
