Portrait of a young woman with her head tilted to her right, wearing her hair pulled back and a necklace. There is no record of a performance at Macauley's Theatre in August 1890. Inscription on mount verso: To [illegible] from Adelaide Long Branch...
Full-length portrait of actor, playwright, and manager Nathan Salsbury (also known as Nate or N. Salsbury) standing in a garden, wearing a suit and top hat and leaning on a cane. Salsbury was born in Freeport, Illinois on February 28, 1846 and died...
Portrait of actor, director, and stage manager Thomas Coffin Cooke wearing a suit jacket and black bow tie. It is inscribed to Boyd Martin, longtime theatre critic for Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper and also director of the University of...
Illustrated map of Kentucky with small drawings showing cities, landmarks, agricultural crops, and other points of interest. Includes a drawing in the upper left corner based on a painting of Daniel Boone and a horse racing scene below the frame....
Self-portrait of Kate Matthews in a flowered dress standing next to a large vase full of irises on the terrace of her home, Clovercroft. Handwritten on verso: "To Paul, With birthday love, From, Aunt Kate" and "Clovercroft, Aug....
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...
This leather-bound account book has a worn front cover with undecipherable writing at the top and "Cadet O. M. Poe. Sept (?) 1852" written in the center. On top left corner of the inside front cover is a stamp that reads: Sold by David...
Baseball players; Baseball managers; Athletes; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.)
Boston Red Sox baseball player Ted Williams with Louisville Colonels manager Mike Ryba at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection; University of Lou. Photo Archives; Parkway Field...
Distilling industry; Industrial facilities; Stills (Distilleries); Whiskey; Barrels; Men
General Distillers Corporation, located at 1726 Mellwood Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky; worker stands over a barrel of bourbon whiskey, gauging it, as others watch. Stamped on bottom of barrel: "General Distillers Corporation of Kentucky, No....
Female High School in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection; The Female High School west side of First St. north of Chestnut St. was completed in Aug. 1873 at a cost of $115, 242.71....
Children riding and exiting a toboggan slide on a lake at Chester Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. Only the end of the slide is visible; a pair of children are seen riding on a toboggan near the bottom. A large, apparently wood, building with porches and...
One automobile driving on unpaved road. There are other cars lining the road; there are people in and around the cars. The car in the road is occupied by one man; it is an open-air vehicle and the driver is seated on the right rather than the...
