A man walks into a white clapboard building with a large stone chimney. Another white clapboard building, with shuttered windows (some shutters missing) and many broken window panes, is the Old Mud Meeting House, built in 1800 as the first Dutch...
Albert Neurath home at 1556 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Dutch Colonial stone-clapboard house. Two-story house with shutters on the windows. A gazebo is attached to the left of the house. Steps lead from the street to the front door. Stamp...
Boy and girl in "Dutch" costume framed in a white heart. The girl is knitting and the boy holds her ball of yarn. The boy wears wooden shoes. The card is also decorated with blue flowers. Printing information dates this card to before the...
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
Caricature Dutch girl sits on a bench next to a black cat. She is framed by a heart of blue flowers that is pierced by a golden arrow. Postmarked 1915 on verso.
Character portrait of actor Robert McWade in costume for the role of Simonides in "Ben Hur," which was produced at Macauley's Theater in March 1905. He wears a turban and a stern expression. Robert McWade Jr. was born in Buffalo, New York...
Children in wooden shoes and traditional Dutch caps watch a nest of chicks and eggs, some of whom are hatching. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, part of "Dutch Easter" series, no. 759. Postmarked 1916 on verso.
Amish--Books and reading; Amish--Ohio--Social life and customs; Literacy--Ohio
Following in the tradition of scholars who treat literacy in context such as Deborah Brandt, Shirley Brice Heath, and David Barton and Mary Hamilton, I conducted my dissertation research not in an academic classroom but in the valleys of Hanley, a...
Full-length character portrait of actor Robert McWade in costume for the role of Simonides in "Ben Hur," which was produced at Macauley's Theater in March 1905. He is seated on a wooden throne, wearing patterned robes with fringed ends....
Girl in stereotypical Dutch clothing leaning over a rail. She is set off in a circular frame. Around her are "tiles" with images of boats, windmills, and other scenes evoking Holland. Postmarked 1913 on verso.
Male figure in wooden shoes sits in chair; the image of a woman's head floats nearby as if in his mind. The man is smoking a cigar. "Not like this tho" is handwritten near the cigar, which has been circled. The man and the woman wear...
Man and woman near oversized snowball. A small animal, probably a dog, peers around the snowball, which is as tall as the woman. The man and woman wear stereotypical Dutch costumes: both wear wooden shoes, and the woman wears a white cap....
Three-story building on cobbled street corner on Chestnut & Sixth, Louisville, Kentucky. Lannom Old Dutch Cleaner or grocery shop. Sign in window advertising furnished rooms above shop. One window on third floor may have broken glass. Streetcar...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co. Printers, Binders and Blank Book Manufacturers," with printing press shown; narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co....
