Paintings; Oil paintings; Architecture; Buildings; Asylums; Mental institutions; Health & hygiene facilities; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Facades; Walls; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Windows; Shutters; Gardens; Parks;...
"The classical facade of the men's wing, depicted with yellow walls and green shutters [...] forms a low horizontal background. Diminuitive figures of men and women stroll through an unkempt park. But the real movement - indeed, the intense...
"The Three Sisters," Siamese triplet sycamore trees, at Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Two of the three large trees are close together in front, connected by metal rods, and the third tree is slightly visible close behind. The...
"Z Taylor 1835" is carved into the trunk of a tree in Iroquois Park, Louisville, Kentucky. The tree is believed to have been carved by Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, in 1835. Beneath that carving is another...
A black car is parked at a curve in the road at Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Stark trees and snow covered roads surround a stone bridge over a creek. At the top of a nearby hill is a large building.
A car parked in front of the Pioneer Museum of Blue Licks State Park (now Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park), a one-story brick building with a small porch reached by stone stairs over an embankment. The state park was established in 1927 to...
Amusement parks; Glenwood Amusement Park (New Albany, Ind.); Chautauquas; Tents; Crowds
A Chautauqua assembly tent at Glenwood Amusement Park located along the banks of Silver Creek near Spring Street in New Albany, Ind. A crowd of people sit beneath the large white tent.
A close-up view of the gravestone, now part of Old Fort Harrod State Park in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, for Ann Kennedy Wilson Poague Lindsay McGinty. Mrs. McGinty was a resident of Fort Harrod in the late 1770s, and is said to have brought the first...
A collie stands on grass along the shore of Lake Michigan looking out at a sailing ship. The print is tinted and the ship and gulls flying above it appear to be elements that were added to the image by hand. Handwritten on album page by...
A convertible automobile is pulled up to the side of one of the overlooks at Iroquois Park in Louisville, Kentucky. A woman in a coat and feathered hat sits on the rock wall surrounding the overlook. Two men stand by the car and another woman sits...
A couple identified as Wilna and "Tersie" at Riverside Park. The river is in the background as the couple sits under a large tree. They are well dressed for the occasion. The woman is holding the man's hat.
A couple with a young child heads toward the steamboat of the Rose Island Excursion Company. Flags of the United States are mounted at the front of the boat and along the sides. A number of cars are parked along the dock and a bridge is visible in...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; People
A crowd of people at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky. A clubhouse at the top of the hill has a stairway and dock leading out to the Idlewild steamboat (not shown). Some people are dressed in casual tops and pants; others are dressed in...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Buildings; Historic buildings; Steamboats; Belle of Louisville (Steamboat); Transportation
A crowd of people lounge around a stone building which has an awning facing the river. The steamship Idlewild stops at Fontaine Ferry Park on the banks of the Ohio River. Now known as The Belle of Louisville, this ship became part of the National...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Exhibitions; People
A crowd of people stand around a display in one of the pavilions at Fontaine Ferry Park. The display looks like part of a car with a steering wheel and gauges. A large banner reads, "Gigantic display of daylight fire works, Labor Day, Monday,...
A dozen children, all girls, in a Simpsonville, Kentucky, park clustered around a see saw. Most of the children are sitting on the right side of the see saw so that it is on the ground. The left side is unoccupied. Every child but one is wearing...
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...
