An elderly African-American gentleman is sitting on a porch step with his head resting in one hand. He is holding a hoe in one hand. He may be Henry Porter. The photograph was titled "Unc' Henry" in an album assembled in the early 1930's...
An African-American woman in servant's dress and head scarf sits in a wooden chair reading a newspaper. The woman, Rebecca Porter, was born a slave in Virginia. After the war, she spent most of her life working in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Rebecca...
A girl with long curly hair, wearing a plaid dress and white pinafore, sits in a large wooden chair. She holds a book in her left hand and is looking up as if daydreaming. Her feet and the chair rest on a bearskin rug. Annie Fellows Johnston based...
A girl with long curly hair, wearing a plaid dress and white pinafore, sits in a large wooden chair. She holds a book in her left hand and is looking up as if daydreaming. Her feet and the chair rest on a bearskin rug. Annie Fellows Johnston's...
A rake lies across a small wheelbarrow sitting next to a patch of clover on the grounds of Clovercroft, family home of photographer, Kate Matthews. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on...
An African-American gardener rakes leaves on the grounds of Clovercroft, photographer Kate Matthews' family home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. He wears a vest, jacket, hat, and gloves, and smoke rises from the pile of leaves beside him. The house can...
Tree-lined Ashwood Avenue in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "'Ashwood Avenue". Inscriptions in the album, which Kate Matthews gave to her great-nephew, Charles B. Fletcher, Jr., include:...
Mary Johnston, wearing a light dress, holds hand-picked flowers in her arms as she bends to examine or smell lilies in a garden. The garden is probably at The Beeches in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, which was the home of Mary's stepmother, Annie Fellows...
Women; Trails & paths; Dirt roads; Dogs; Baskets; Country life
A woman, with a large basket of laundry balanced on her head, walks home with a dog at the end of the day. A single, small wooden house sits behind a fence. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also...
A large African-American woman sits on a small wooden porch. Vines climb the wooden posts next to her. The title "Praise de Lord" is part of a copy negative that was made from an original print, but the photographer's niece, Lillian...
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....
Sheep graze in a clearing next to St. James Episcopal Church in Pewee Valley, Kentucky (registered as a national historical place, NHRP Bldg. #85003072). The stone church can be seen through the trees. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on...
Mary Johnston, wearing a light dress, holds hand-picked flowers in her arms as she bends to examine or smell lilies in a garden. The garden is probably at The Beeches in Pewee Valley, Kentucky which was the home of Mary's stepmother, Annie Fellows...
A path or walkway in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. A white fence is on the left side and tree-lined Ashwood Avenue is on the right. Handwritten on verso of print: "To you who oft this, lovely path have trod, with one you loved, in sunlight and...
An old stone mill on a creek in Fraziertown, Kentucky surrounded by trees and other foliage. The water is very low, exposing the rocky creek bed. Handwritten on mount in lower left margin in photographer Kate Matthews' handwriting: "The Old...
Straight, narrow, well-worn path runs between very large trees. Most of the path is shaded by tree trunks and foliage. Written on lower left border in Kate Matthews handwriting: "The Shadowy Lane." Handwritten on the lower right border:...
Herbert Ross, in a shepherd's costume, blows a horn to call for his sheep on a winter day. Ross grew up in Pewee Valley, studied art in Paris, and became an accomplished painter.
Hattie Cochran and Annie Fellows Johnston pose with the book, "The Little Colonel at Boarding School" (1903). They are sitting on a small wood settee in front of a bookcase by a window. Hattie, the real-life person upon whom Annie Fellows...
A tree-lined drive leads to Locust, a country estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Two small stone pillars stand at the entrance, each connected to a white rail fence. Main sections of the house are believed to have been built around 1800, making it...
