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...
This paper explores issues of identity and difference in art and its institutions through a historiographic study of two landmark exhibitions, "The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain" (1989) and the 1993 Whitney Biennial....
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....
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.
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 this view of J.T.S. Brown and Sons Distillery, situated in the rolling hills of Mercer County, Kentucky, men stand on the roofs of two different stories. Several chutes convey material out of the building; one apparently carries mash by-product...
Two men stand in the side yard of a stone house apparently built in 1790 in Mercer County, Kentucky. The house has shuttered windows and a small front porch.
Hydraulic facilities; Dams; Buildings; Power plants; Rivers
Hydroelectric plant near High Bridge, Kentucky. View of building with smoke stack, foregrounded by generators and a chain link fence. Forested hills in the background. High Bridge runs between Jessamine and Mercer counties. The original bridge,...
Hydraulic facilities; Dams; Buildings; Power plants; Rivers
Hydroelectric plant near High Bridge, Kentucky. View from a distance of building with three smoke stacks and a large vent sloping down to a smaller building, past a tower. In the distance is a forested area, and in the foreground is a stream and...
Robert Armstrong Cochran was born in 1822, on French Creek, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He acquired his education in that part of Western Pennsylvania and at the...
Older man in a felt hat operating a hemp-brey (used for breaking hemp) in Mercer County, Kentucky. He is standing in front of a log cabin, with a tall split-rail fence in the background.
Map of eastern North America includes states, territories, rivers, cities and mountain ranges. Kentucky is shown as the western part of Virginia and there are seven county names printed in the Kentucky area: Fayette, Madison, Lincoln, Jefferson,...
A man leans against a large tree next to a stream, possibly in Mercer County, Kentucky. There is a black cow in the distance and several different fenced enclosures.
Portrait of J.W. Howard of Mercer, Kentucky, wearing his hair parted down the middle, a suit, and striped tie. The photograph is badly creased and marred with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: J.W. Howard, Mercer; He's the baby.
Autographed oval-shaped portrait of Dorris Mercer wearing her long hair down, with a floral headband and corsage. Location of photo studio: Louisville (Ky.)
Roads; Stone walls; Men; Cliffs; Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Ky., Inc.
Two men stand on Shaker Ferry Road above a stone wall with a cliff behind them. Shaker Ferry Road is located in present-day Mercer County in Shakertown at Pleasant Hill. The road, which was began in 1826 and completed in 1861, was used by the...
