Interiors; Living rooms; Art objects; Furniture; Rugs; Wallpapers
The interior of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky. This room, encased in floral wallpaper, is filled with framed photographs and artwork, mementos, and books in addition to furniture and rugs....
A portrait of Mrs. Annie Craig, the real-life model for the character Grandmother MacIntyre in the Little Colonel books written by Annie Fellows Johnston. She is wearing a black lace dress and light reflects off her silver hair. Annie was the widow...
A girl with long curly hair, wearing a plaid dress and white pinafore, sits in a large wooden chair. She holds a book in her left hand and is looking up as if daydreaming. Her feet and the chair rest on a bearskin rug. Annie Fellows Johnston based...
A girl with long curly hair, wearing a plaid dress and white pinafore, sits in a large wooden chair. She holds a book in her left hand and is looking up as if daydreaming. Her feet and the chair rest on a bearskin rug. Annie Fellows Johnston's...
Catherine and Frances Lawton, the characters Kitty and Allison Walton in Annie Fellows Johnston's "Little Colonel" book series, pose in dinner dresses in the parlor of their home, called Edgewood. Catherine is seated at a small table...
Real-life models for seven characters in Annie Fellows Johnston's Little Colonel books pose outdoors. Fanny Craig (Miss Allison McIntyre) sits in the center chair, holding a book as if reading to the group. Hattie Cochran (Lloyd Sherman, a.k.a. The...
Fannie Craig, as Miss Allison in the Little Colonel books, conducts Sunday school for Sylvia Gibb's children as described in Chapter IX of "The Little Colonel's House Party" (1900), written by Annie Fellows Johnston. Title supplied by...
Fannie Craig, real-life model for the character Miss Allison in the Little Colonel books by Annie Fellows Johnston, sits at a piano. She is wearing a long-sleeved dark dress with white lace collar and cuffs and her head is turned toward the camera....
Fannie Craig, real-life model for the character Miss Allison in the Little Colonel books by Annie Fellows Johnston, is examining a vase. A young girl stands by her side. The girl may be portraying the character Virginia in "Two Little Knights...
Amanthis Jungbluth poses as Grandmother Amanthis Lloyd, deceased wife of the Old Colonel in the Little Colonel book series. Wearing a dark lace shawl and a dark hat with a light veil, Amanthis stands in profile next to a stone pillar on the porch...
Catherine Lawton, dressed as the character Kitty Walton in the Little Colonel books, sits on a lawn with a basket of flowers. She is wearing a full dress and a straw hat with flowers. Handwritten on verso of postcard in Kate Matthews' handwriting:...
Women; Young adults; Portraits; Fictitious characters
Portrait of Mary Johnston as the character Joyce Ware in the Little Colonel book series. She has long curly hair and a scarf over the shoulder of her dark dress. Mary was the stepdaughter of Annie Fellows Johnston, author of the Little Colonel...
Women; Young adults; Portraits; Fictitious characters
Profile portrait of Mary Johnston as the character of Joyce Ware in the Little Colonel book series. She is dressed in a dark robe or wrap and positioned against a dark background with light reflecting off her long blond hair. Mary Johnston was the...
Women; Young adults; Portraits; Fictitious characters
Portrait of Mary Johnston as the character Joyce Ware in the Little Colonel book series. She has long curly hair and a scarf over the shoulder of her dark dress. Mary was the stepdaughter of Annie Fellows Johnston, author of the Little Colonel...
Women; Young adults; Portraits; Fictitious characters
Profile portrait of Mary Johnston as the character of Joyce Ware in the Little Colonel book series. She is dressed in a dark robe or wrap and positioned against a dark background with light reflecting off her long blond hair. Mary Johnston was the...
An African-American woman in servant's dress and head scarf sits in a wooden chair reading a newspaper. The woman, Rebecca Porter, was born a slave in Virginia. After the war, she spent most of her life working in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Rebecca...
Rhyme is framed in gold with holly decorations. Published by Everett Exclusive Studios. Postmarked 191? Address information indicates it dates to no later than 1914.
