As my curatorial thesis project, I chose to curate an exhibit of George Washington Morrison's paintings. George Morrison was a well-known portrait painter in New Albany, Indiana during his time here from 1840-1893. His paintings are on display in...
Beds; Brasswork; Mansions; Howard Steamboat Museum
Brass bed in James E. "Captain Jim" Howard's bedroom in the Howard Mansion, now the Howard Steamboat Museum. The bed, which is out of focus in the picture, was purchased at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The image is out of...
Decorative shield with a torch on either side. At the top is an insignia featuring a ship with sails. In a circle around the insignia are the words "The Handcraft Shops Founded 1904." On the scrolls below the insignia is the phrase...
Governor's Mansion, in Frankfort, Kentucky, a two-story limestone Beaux-Arts building with a flat roof, columns, and wings, viewed from the front with an expanse of lawn in the foreground.
Guest room at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. The room features two four-poster double beds, two armchairs, a desk and chair, and a dresser. Tiny portraits are on the wallpapered walls.
Ballroom at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. It is a curved room with three high, curtained windows shown, a piano, and wooden chairs all along the wall. The parquet floor is empty. Two crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling, which...
State dining room at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky, featuring ornate wallpaper and designs on the ceiling, a table with two chairs and a floral centerpiece, a rug, and chairs against the wall.
Main entrance to the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. An arched doorway flanked by patterned armchairs leads to two curved staircases and one central staircase heading down to French doors.
Main drawing room at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. On a carpet with circular motifs, light colored armchairs line the walls. A mirror at the end of the room reflects the chandelier.
Century-old Guthrie Homestead, Fern Creek, Kentucky. Corner view of brick mansion fronted by trees with new leaves and small, manicured pines and bushes close to the house, which has pillared one and two story porches and a small curved wall of...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Where Foster Wrote Song." Federal Hill, a two-story brick Greek Revival mansion with shutters and white curtains in every window and a flat roof with two chimneys, was the estate of the...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Federal Hill." Entrance hall of Federal Hill, the Bardstown, Kentucky, estate of the Rowan family, whose cousin, Stephen Foster, composed "My Old Kentucky Home." Federal Hill Mansion, on...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
Parlor musicians at Federal Hill. On back of image: "Bardstown Ky. My Old Ky. Home. July 1933. Singing Foster songs." A man wearing a tuxedo plays piano, a woman plays harp, and four other women gather around listening at Federal Hill...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
A man and woman approach Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky Home," in Bardstown, Kentucky, followed by an African-American man carrying luggage, as three women stand and one woman sits on the entrance steps. Federal Hill...
Bashford Manor, now a shopping center on Bardstown Road, near Buechel, Louisville, Kentucky, 1923. Right diagonal view of light colored three-story house with a porch that has pillars and a central portico. The third floor has attic rooms with...
Bashford Manor, now a shopping center on Bardstown Road, near Buechel, Louisville, Kentucky. Behind tall grass and a picket fence and flanked by two trees sits a light colored house with shuttered windows featuring small, two dimensional pillars; a...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
The Silas Miller mansion, former home of the College of Arts and Sciences. The front and side entrances are visible. There are a few trees in front of the building. A wrought-iron fence is visible at the front edge of the image. In 1925 the...
