Educational facilities; Schools; Military academies; Kentucky Military Institute (1845-1971); Cadets
Cadet by cannon, Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky. A young man in uniform sits on a cannon with large wooden wheels among trees, bushes, and fallen leaves. The school was founded in 1845 by Colonel Robert Thomas Pitcairn Allen. It...
Educational facilities; Schools; Military academies; Kentucky Military Institute (1845-1971); Cadets
Cadet inspection, Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky. A man in dark uniform inspects the cadets, who are wearing white pants and dark jackets. Most of the cadets stand in two rows, and the dark uniformed man inspects the rifle of the...
Educational facilities; Schools; Military academies; Kentucky Military Institute (1845-1971)
Cadets, Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky. Two rows of cadets plus one cadet in front and one in back march on a field of closely cut grass; the cadets in rows hold rifles over their shoulders. The school was founded in 1845 by Colonel...
Educational facilities; Schools; Military academies; Kentucky Military Institute (1845-1971); Cadets
Cadets, Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky. Young men in uniform of white pants and dark jackets stand at attention in a field. The cadet in front holds a sword. In the background are some more cadets, then a line of trees. There is a...
Four uniformed Salvation Army adults and one girl stand in auditorium near stage filled with baskets of vegetables and harvest displays. A sign behind the stage, beneath a portrait of an elderly bearded man, reads "He Giveth the...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men; Costumes; Posing; Military uniforms
Full-length character portrait of French actor Constant-Benoît Coquelin in costume as Napoleon II in "L'Aiglon," in which he performed opposite Sarah Bernhardt at Macauley's Theatre on March 18, 1901. He stands with hands on hips,...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of George Crockett Strong (1832-1863), a Union major general in the United States Civil War. He wrote Cadet Life at West Point (1862). During an assault against Fort Wagner, he received a gunshot wound to the thigh and later died of...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Boys; Cadets; Military uniforms
Portrait of Walter H. Girdler, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing his military cadet uniform. Girdler is the son of Walter H. Girdler, President of Girdler Corporation and of the Herald-Post. The photograph had paper attached to the bottom and...
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...
Three-quarter length character portrait of French actor Constant-Benoît Coquelin in costume consisting of floppy hat with ostrich plume; bulbous nose; upturned mustache; small patch of hair on chin; round collar; and tunic. It may be the costume...
Willis Overton Harris was born in 1847 in Powhatan County, Virginia. He entered Virginia Military Institute in 1863 and fought in the Civil War with VMI cadet corps until wars end, receiving an honorary degree in 1867. He attended University of...
