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 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...
A large two-story frame house with a front porch spanning its entire width, is partially obscured by large trees. The home, known as The Beeches, was once owned by the Lawtons, the model for the Walton family in the Little Colonel books. The author...
Profile of a man sitting in a chair. He is leaning forward with his left elbow on his knee and his chin in hand. He holds a Meerschaum pipe in his right hand. The man appears to be the photographer's brother, Ed Matthews. Handwritten by...
Villa Ridge School, also known as Miss Fannie Craig's School, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The one-story building located on the property of Edgewood where Fannie Craig lived opened around 1902. Handwritten on verso of postcard in Kate Matthews'...
Catherine Lawton, dressed as the character Kitty Walton in the Little Colonel books, sits on a lawn with a basket of flowers. She is wearing a full dress and a straw hat with flowers. Handwritten on verso of postcard in Kate Matthews' handwriting:...
A girl with long hair wearing a white, or light-colored, dress poses in a swing suspended from a tree. The girl is believed to be the photographer's niece, Elizabeth Matthews, who was the real-life model for the character Betty Lewis in the Little...
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...
Edward Matthews, posing as a soldier in a military uniform, stands with the reins of a horse in his left hand and the hand of a woman, who is turned away from him, in his right. Title supplied by cataloger.
Profile of Mary Johnston, partially back-lit by sunlight coming through a gothic arched window in Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church. Mary Johnston was the stepdaughter of Annie Fellows Johnston, author of the Little Colonel series of books. Title...
Real-life models for seven characters in Annie Fellows Johnston's Little Colonel books pose outdoors. Fanny Craig (Miss Allison McIntyre) sits in the center chair, holding a book as if reading to the group. Hattie Cochran (Lloyd Sherman, a.k.a. The...
Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, a great-niece of photographer Kate Matthews, reenacts "Alice Through the Looking Glass." She wears a white dress and is kneeling on a dresser, looking into the mirror. There is a clock on the dresser and an...
Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, a great-niece of photographer Kate Matthews, is curled in chair holding a ball of yarn in her hands and a kitten in her lap. She appears to be reenacting a scene from "Alice in Wonderland," except the cat is...
Charlotta Matthews Osborn, another woman and a man enjoy tea at a table under a large tree on the lawn of Twigmore, Lillian Fletcher's home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The other woman may be Lillian Fletcher. There are also two garden benches, a...
Jesse Fletcher, wearing a World War I U. S. Cavalry uniform, walks down stone steps, away from a house and toward the photographer. Jesse was a nephew of photographer Kate Matthews. Title supplied by cataloger.
Elizabeth Fletcher, wearing a light spring dress with matching hat and heels, is holding a flower up as if to show it to a bird in a birdcage. The birdcage is hanging from a large tree on the lawn of Twigmore. Elizabeth is daintily holding her...
Elizabeth Barrows Fletcher, niece of photographer Kate Matthews, poses in her wedding gown and veil. She stands against a plain background with sunlight illuminating the right side of her torso and face. Miss Fletcher married Charles William...
Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, a great-niece of photographer Kate Matthews, curled in chair holding ball of yarn in her hands and with a kitten in her lap. She appears to be reenacting a scene from "Alice in Wonderland," except the cat is...
Elizabeth Brackett, a great-niece of photographer Kate Matthews, reenacts "Alice Through the Looking Glass." She is wearing a white dress and is kneeling on a dresser top holding a kitten in her arms. Title supplied by cataloger.
Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett, a great-niece of photographer Kate Matthews, viewed from rear, is gazing at a stuffed white rabbit sitting under a tree. She is apparently reenacting "Alice in Wonderland." Title supplied by cataloger.
