Sketch of champion harness racer Prince Wilkes, with the horse racing and pulling a jockey in a sulky, or two-wheeled cart. "D. W. Smith, 1887" is written in the left corner, and "2.14 3/4" and "Prince Wilkes" in the...
Over two dozen young women, graduates of Beaumont College, which existed from 1895-1915, and an older man stand or sit in front of a tree, behind a small, stone-edged road or path. There are more trees in the background, as well as a horse and...
Twenty-one college women in pale striped shirts and dark skirts stand and sit in a group with five musical instruments, some chains of flowers, and a pillow decorated with a musical staff as well as some other decorative pillows. They are in front...
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.
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:...
A man sits on a circular stone wall in the middle of a field. This is the burial place of Colonel Gabriel Slaughter (1767-1830), a politician who served in the Kentucky state house of representatives (1797), Kentucky state senate (1801), and as...
Dwellings; Mansions; Stone buildings; Men; Children; Girls; Hunting trophies
Romanesque Revival residence of Daniel Lawson Moore (founder of D. L. Moore Distillery and state senator): a stone building with a crenellated tower; dormers; and a front porch with arched pillars and, above, a balcony rail. On the porch, which...
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.
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.
Two men on a pontoon bridge starting across the Dix River. A road and several paths lead down to the river, and a house is up the road among the trees.
High Bridge and the Kentucky River from the north side of the bridge. Two piers anchored in concrete support the three 375 foot spans of the bridge on either side of the river. High Bridge is 275.5 feet above the low water mark, 1125 feet long, and...
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.
Large, ivy-covered three-story brick home with columns. People look out of the open windows, and two men are sitting on a bench in the front along with two dogs, while a woman stands on the porch and another man and a woman stand to the side. A...
High Bridge over the Kentucky River as viewed from the confluence of the Kentucky River and Dix River. Three men on a small boat are in the foreground by the riverbank. A camera and tripod are on the bank above the men and pointed toward the...
A group of black and white men and boys stand on the banks of a stream, separated from a row of houses with picket fences by a dirt road lined with utility poles. Downstream from the group there is a small bridge and more houses. Apparently this...
Over a dozen men and women lounge in four clumps on the large rocks surrounding a placid, unevenly shaped river which at the front of the photograph widens and branches around a boulder. Some rowboats are parked on either side of the water. The...
Drawing of a dark stallion named Gambonito. At the bottom of the drawing, a scroll reads: "Gambonito, 8419. 2:27 1/2, property of W. M. Rue and Son." (The rest of the scroll is illegible.) Gambonito is listed in the Year Book, Trotting...
Men; African Americans; Men; Springs; Stone buildings; Stone walls; Springs; Horses; Carriages & coaches; Dirt roads
Four men (three white, one black) sit on the stone wall next to a small stone structure over a spring. There is a horse-drawn carriage on the dirt road beside the spring.
