Charles Morehead Thomas was born in 1847 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He attended the common schools of Warren County, Kentucky, but was caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War, joining the Confederate Army as a youth. After the war he returned to...
Thomas H. Hanks was born in 1823 near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He received a common school education, and at the age of twenty-four was elected to represent Anderson County in the Kentucky legislature. He was elected circuit clerk of Anderson County...
Portrait of actor Thomas W. Ross wearing a suit jacket and black silk tie. Born January 22, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts, Ross died November 14, 1959 in Torrington, Connecticut. He starred in four productions at Macauley's Theatre between 1902 and...
Portrait of actor, director, and stage manager Thomas Coffin Cooke wearing a suit jacket and black bow tie. It is inscribed to Boyd Martin, longtime theatre critic for Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper and also director of the University of...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of General Thomas H. Hubbard, a lawyer and Union soldier (brevet brigadier general) in the United States Civil War. After the war, he resumed legal practice and became a successful executive for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American college students; College students; Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); Graduation ceremonies; African Americans; Women
Portrait of State University graduate Edwena Kennedy Thomas at her graduation. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (1879), State University (1883), Simmons University...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Episcopal churches
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, located at the corner of Bardstown Road and Richmond Drive, Louisville, Kentucky, a wooden church in a snow-covered yard with two cars parked in front.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Military personnel; Military uniforms
Portrait of World War I hero, Sergeant Samuel Woodfill of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in his military uniform, displaying all his medals of honor. The photograph is badly creased, painted on to crop his image, and marked with discolorations. Stamped on...
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, positioned to fire his rifle at Camp Perry in Ohio. The photograph has spots of discoloration and marks along the edges. Article attached to back of image: described by General Pershing as...
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, wearing glasses and a pin-stripe suit. The photograph has been cut in half, painted on to crop his face, cracked along the edges, and discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: World War...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Government officials; Legislators
Portrait of Brent Spence of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, wearing wire-frame glasses and suit. He served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1931 to 1963. The photograph has a yellow discoloration from age and damaged around the edges.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Launchings; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
G.W. THOMAS, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (173.5 ft. x 28 ft. x 6 ft.), was built at Howard in 1901. Owned by Peoples Coal Co. in Pittsburgh, she operated on the upper Ohio River. G.W. THOMAS was sold and renamed ALICIA in 1913 and then...
Two women wearing glasses and cloche hats sit on a bench on the grounds of a large building, possibly in England, which they visited to attend the Festival of the English Folk Song and Dance Society held in Royal Albert Hall in London, England....
Photogravure of full-length character portrait of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Louis XI. He wears a crown with veil and ermine-trimmed robe with fleur-de-lis pattern. Keene appeared at Macauley's Theatre eleven times...
Photogravure of full-length character portrait of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Othello, wearing a cape and carrying a staff. Born in 1840, Keene appeared at Macauley's Theatre eleven times between 1881 and 1897, and died...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Macbeth. In this full-length character portrait, Keene wears a helmet, tunic of armor with plaid sash, two swords in scabbards, and knee-length laced sandals,...
Oval-shaped portrait of left profile of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene, who appeared at Macauley's Theatre eleven times between 1881 and 1897. He wears a double-breasted suit jacket and tie, and his balding hair is combed over from the left side of...
