Schools; African Americans; Hammers; Saws; Hand tools; Fences; Hats; Fraternal lodges; Buildings; People
Address: 316 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Seven young African American men stand by a fence on the Prentice School property. The hammers and saws they hold and the freshness of the fence wood indicates that they may have just built it....
A boy wearing a hat, short pants, and a large grin sits on a split-rail fence. A man wearing a suit and holding a straw hat and a woman wearing a long dress and holding a parasol stand beside the fence. Title supplied by cataloger.
An African American man in a white shirt and black pants sits on a rail fence near Mt. Sherman in LaRue County, Kentucky. His attire includes a black tie tucked into his shirt and a pair of white suspenders. Tire tracks can be seen in the dirt road...
Two women in the backyard garden of a house at 2438 Cypress Street. The women are in dresses and sitting on the fence. They are both holding housecats. The woman on the left is Lucile A. Furnas.
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Military training; Barbed wire; Wire obstacles; Fences
French soldier, leaning on his rifle, appears to be using his foot to test tension on a barbed-wire fence as other soldiers look on. Believed to have been taken during the photographer's field training at Autun, France in 1915.
Jean Thomas, wearing a calico dress and holding a bonnet and two books, stands at the fence of the McGuffey Log School (so marked by a wooden handwritten sign). Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as...
Jean Thomas, wearing a calico dress and holding a bonnet and two books, stands at the fence of the McGuffey Log School (so marked by a wooden handwritten sign). Her 'Wee House in the Wood' brick home is visible at left. Thomas acquired possession...
Fiddler Jilson Setters (a pseudonym for James William (J.W.) Day, 1860-1942) carries a basket with a drinking gourd, a fiddle case, and a chair to an outdoor spot near a split rail fence.
Boys; Stringed instruments; Guitars; Fences; Baskets; Costumes--United States; American Folk Song Festival
A boy identified as "Little Chad," wearing overalls, plays guitar while sitting on a split-rail fence surrounded by trees and plants, with a basket at his feet. "Little Chad" has been named after a child Jean Thomas met at the...
Jean Thomas' notes read: "Robie Ferguson 'On Death' a fraud who played me false on 'We the People' New York, NBC, Philips Lord." Robie Ferguson was likely Robert Franklin Ferguson, a native Kentuckian who worked for Ashland Oil and...
Jilson Setters (a pseudonym for James William (J.W.) Day, 1860-1942), wearing a jacket and tie, plays fiddle standing near a fence. A woman stands next to him, with a chair and a basket in front of her. Title supplied by cataloger.
Jilson Setters (a pseudonym for James William (J.W.) Day, 1860-1942), wearing a jacket and tie, plays fiddle standing near a fence. A chair and a basket are next to him. Title supplied by cataloger.
A close-up shot of a man (who head is partially out of frame) wearing collarless shirt, three-piece suit and tie, and a woman in a white blouse and a wide-brimmed hat. They are standing outside an iron fence in front of a white house with columns....
Two women wearing long Victorian dresses, one wearing a hat and the other carrying a parasol, walk with a young boy (in knee pants) along a path abutting a split-rail fence. Title supplied by cataloger.
