A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
Construction site between a long, one-story brick building and Armour Creameries with an industrial building with saw-tooth roof in the distance. Wood beams and supports are across a trench dug into the ground with a pipe buried below.
A construction crane at a site with a sewer trench being buried with metal posts sticking out of the ground. A house is in the background. Original negative is damaged.
Horse-drawn vehicle on dirt road by stone formation. There are a cactus and a yucca plant in the foreground. Printed text on verso reads, "Desert scene, Arizona - The surface of Arizona is a series of plateaus, ranging in altitude from 80 to...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: children listening attentively to man seated outdoors in wooden chair; indigenous man wearing pelt and holding bow looks out over water; bearded man in Elizabethan collar examines map;...
From the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. "A stylistic 'sister' to the Anavysos kouros is a statue of a kore wearing a peplos, a simple, long, woolen belted garment, which gives the female figure a columnar appearance. Traces of paint are preserved...
Horatio W. Bruce was born in 1830 in Lewis County, Kentucky. He attended school in Lewis County and in Manchester, Ohio, and worked as a salesman and bookkeeper at a general store in Vanceburg, Kentucky. In 1850, he went to Flemingsburg, Kentucky,...
Emmet Field was born in Louisville in 1841. He was educated in Missouri, at Westminster College, and served in the 2d Missouri Cavalry of the Confederate army. He returned to Louisville in 1864, and the next year graduated from the law department...
Willis Overton Harris was born in 1847 in Powhatan County, Virginia. He entered Virginia Military Institute in 1863 and fought in the Civil War with VMI cadet corps until wars end, receiving an honorary degree in 1867. He attended University of...
Born in 1790 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, George Robertson attended Transylvania University until 1806 and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1817 to 1821 and in Kentucky's legislature from 1822 to 1827, in 1848, and...
Milton Jamison Durham was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1824. He was brought up on his father's farm, and entered Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., graduating in 1844. He read law with the late Joshua F. Bell of Danville and in 1850...
Humphrey Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1760. A soldier in the Virginia Revolutionary forces, he later moved to Kentucky in 1782 where he was admitted to the bar in Fayette County. He was a member of Kentucky House of...
William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...
John Dorsey Atchison was born in 1852 in Daviess County, Kentucky. He attended the Oakland Seminary and West Kentucky College. He read law with W. N. Sweeney and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He served as Daviess County School Commissioner from...
Born in 1819 in Shelby County, Kentucky, Bland Ballard attended Hanover College and the Law Department of Transylvania University where he received an L.L.B in 1846. He read law under James T. Morehead. In 1846, he married Sarah McDowell, daughter...
Thomas R. Gordon was born in 1854 in Owingsville, Kentucky. In 1890 he joined with University of Louisville graduate John C. Strother , a Trimble County native, to form the extremely successful partnership, Strother & Gordon. The firm had...
James O'Hara was born at New Liberty, Owen County, Kentucky, in 1825. He attended St. Mary College, near Lebanon, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, starting his practice in Grant County, Kentucky. In 1859, he moved to Covington,...
Adolphus E. Richards was born in Virginia in 1844. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army, where he rose to the rank of major before his twenty-first birthday. At the war's end, he returned to school,...
John Graham Simrall was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1840. He graduated from Centre College at age 17, ranked second in his class. Too young to read law, his father placed him under the tutorship of Judge George Robertson, of Lexington, who...