Girls; Windows; Casement windows; Stone buildings; Dwellings; Houses
A girl looks out an open casement window at Twigmore, an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky owned by photographer Kate Matthews' niece, Lillian Fletcher. Matthews' signature is on lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on the album page by...
A woman dressed as a nun stands in the middle of a tree-lined dirt road in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on lower right corner of mount. Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux...
Minstrels; Violins; Stone walls; Men; Dogs; Tramps
Portrait of a man and his dog next to a vine-covered stone wall. The bearded man wears ragged striped tuxedo pants, a tuxedo jacket with tails and a top hat. He carefully holds a fiddle and bow in his arms. The man is Jim Felton, a wandering...
Wolf Pen Branch water mill as seen from upstream atop the mill dam on Harrods Creek in Oldham County, Kentucky. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on album page by Kate Matthews: "The...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: centurion watching man wearing crown accompanied by children with brooms and whips; bearded man wearing fur pelt witnesses arrival, by boat, of colonists, who have already begun hunting;...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caged lion, the saddle, and the man wearing vest resting on log, holding axe, while boy carries sheaves of wheat, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: portrait of man with wavy hair, beard, and mustache; man stacking sheaves of wheat while another man harvests wheat; woman lying in bed staring out window at church and sunshine, while...
Two sets of railroad tracks curving around a hill with water and tree-covered mountains to the left and a tree-covered hill to the right. Telephone or electric poles line the tracks. The area is called Jacks Narrows and is between Mapleton and...
General Ulysses S. Grant's tomb, a large stone structure with columns. It is set on a small hill, with steps leading up to the building. There are people near the monument; one person is on a bicycle. Text printed on verso reads, "Grant's...
"Venus is represented rising out of the water in accord with the conventions of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type. The triton and dolphin, which recall the maritime setting, were sometimes depicted alternately with two cupids accompanying the...
