Portrait of cows, sheep, an older man (probably Al G. Field), a young boy, and various barns and outbuildings at Maple Villa Farm, which was located outside Columbus, Ohio, and belonged to minstrel showman Al G. Field. Alfred Griffith Hatfield,...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actresses; Women; Costumes; Posing; Families
Group portrait of three Vokes sisters (Victoria, Rosina, and Jessie), who, with Fred and Fawdon Vokes, wrote and performed sketches as the Vokes Family in the 1880s. They are wearing dark, winter-weight dresses and hats. They performed "The...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actresses; Women; Costumes; Posing
Group portrait of three Vokes sisters (Victoria, Rosina, and Jessie), who, with Fred and Fawdon Vokes, wrote and performed sketches as the Vokes Family. They are wearing striped dresses with pinafores and wide-brimmed hats. These costumes may...
Thomas H. Hanks was born in 1823 near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He received a common school education, and at the age of twenty-four was elected to represent Anderson County in the Kentucky legislature. He was elected circuit clerk of Anderson County...
William J. Hendrick was born near Flemingsburg in 1855. He graduated Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1873. He read law and was admitted to the Fleming County bar in 1870. In 1881, he was elected to the Kentucky legislature and he represented...
Laban Theodore Moore was born in Wayne County, Virginia. (now West Virginia), near Louisa, Kentucky, in 1829. He attended Marshall Academy in Virginia and graduated from Marietta College in Ohio. He attended the Transylvania Law College at...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Judges; Portraits
William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...
Clarence Dallam was born in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1863. He attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., from 1881 to 1884, before entering the University of Virginia. After graduation, he was admitted to the University of Virginia law...
George Washington was born on Christmas Day of 1844 in Newport, Kentucky. He was a great-great-grandson of Samuel Washington, brother of President George Washington. He was educated at Newport and at Cincinnati, Ohio. He enlisted in the...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1881-1882. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, program information, medical class 1880, graduation details, and advertisements. Printed on cover: Twenty-Fifth Annual Announcement of the...
Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. This original fourteenth century leaf is from a calligraphic manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz, the collected poems of the poet also known as Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz or Shamsoddin Mohammad...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Othello. In this full-length character portrait, he wears a turban and robes and carries a curved pipe or staff. Born in 1840, Keene appeared at Macauley's...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Bertuccio in "The Fool's Revenge." In this full-length character portrait, he wears a hat and tunic with plaid cape, pointing with his right hand...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Hamlet. In this full-length character portrait, Keene leans his right elbow on a mantle, with his head resting on his right hand. He wears a tunic and...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Macbeth. In this full-length character portrait, Keene wears a helmet, tunic of armor with plaid sash, two swords in scabbards, and knee-length laced sandals,...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Gloster (in one of Shakespeare's plays about King Richard(s)--the page is torn after the word "Richard"). In this full-length character portrait, he...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Shylock in "Merchant of Venice." In this full-length character portrait, Keene wears a gray beard and mustache and a robe, and holds a document with...
Rectangular lithograph of Eliza Weathersby, in short dress with shawl, sword, and bangles, posed underneath a larger portrait of her (wearing more traditional clothing and jewelry). This appears to be an advertisement for her in a performance of...
