Black men and boys with fishing poles sit at the top of a log dam beside a building made of logs and stone. Below the dam, two white men in a boat with a paddle appear to be fixing the fishing line of one of the boys.
Three men break hemp on a rolling field of hemp and craggy trees, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. Two men operate hand brakes and the man in center holds aloft a mass of hemp dangling to the ground like a large blanket. A shack and outhouse...
Brooklyn Bridge in Boone Tunnel on Kentucky River at Mercer County and Jessamine County, Kentucky. The bridge has high, wide stone pillars and ends at the tunnel into the high rock bank amid trees growing there. Caption on back of image:...
Kennedy Bridge, with some curved spans but mostly without rails, above icy water, near High Bridge, Kentucky. Behind it is a telephone tower. The Kennedy Bridge, which was built in 1924, crosses Herrington Lake between Mercer and Garrard counties....
Four many-passengered canoes float low in the water on a placid lake glinting in the sun; one woman holds a parasol and some passengers wear hats. Part of a rocky shore is visible in the photograph's lower right corner. The backdrop of the lake is...
Outside a wooden house with one and two story sections, a horse and buggy is parked and another horse grazes beside a tree. A woman and two children or--possibly--seated adults sit on the porch, and a man leans on the outside of a four board fence...
Caves; Rock formations; Historic sites; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
A man sits atop a large rock formation, with a boarded up entrance to a cave below. Kentucky explorer and early settler Daniel Boone spent the winter of 1769-1770 in a cave on the Shawnee River in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Vertical cliff of rock strata and some greenery (mostly near the top and base). A winding wood staircase runs a good way up the cliff. Higher up there seem to be three people, and near the top it looks like there is a shack.
Three men stand on a brick path in front of the courthouse, a two-story brick building with a clock tower topped by a weather vane. The building's windows are arranged in a pattern of a middle frame with four panes flanked by two narrower, side...
Two workers in a hemp field in Mercer County, Kentucky, with tall bundles of hemp in the background. One worker is gathering the hemp and the other is breaking the hemp (breaking down the hemp fibers).
In front of a wooded bank, the Kentucky River flows over a dam. At the front of the photograph is a cross section of a lock's chamber, containing the lock gear including the paddles and winding gear. A man stands at the top of a ladder on the...
This distillery is a large building surrounded by a wood fence. In the foreground are two chickens and a cow. Barrels are visible through some of the windows.
Distilling industry; Buildings; Wooden buildings; Men
This distillery is a large building surrounded by a wood fence. Several men look out of the second story windows. Two men push a cart down a ramp from the second story on the other side of the building. There is dark smoke coming out a chimney.
