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...
Courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas. A multi-story red brick building with a dome-topped tower. There is a sort of "widow's walk" on top of the tower. A few figures are visible on the sidewalk around the courthouse and there are horse-drawn...
Buildings; Galleries & museums; J.B. Speed Art Museum; Gates
Speed Museum entrance, University of Louisville, Belknap Campus, 1930. Part of the museum can be seen from a side angle at the end of a narrow drive lined by leafy trees. Here at the sides of the drive are two stone landmarks with low four-sided...
Buildings; Galleries & museums; J.B. Speed Art Museum
Speed Museum galleries, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two sets of marble pillars flank the walls of each end of a short wide hall between two display rooms. The closer room houses paintings around the walls at fairly low height and has a small table...
Full-length character portrait of actor George A. Beane in costume for the role of Ben Gay in the Charles H. Hoyt play "A Trip to Chinatown," which was staged at Macauley's Theatre five times in the 1890s, four of them starring Harry...
Character portrait of actress Gertrude Quinlan wearing hat with oversized ostrich plume. Her long curly hair is left down. She performed at Macauley's Theatre in "King Dodo" (October 1901) and "The College Widow" (September...
Three-quarter length seated portrait of Harry Ridings, apparently a manager of the touring group performing operetta "The Merry Widow" at Macauley's Theatre. He wears a suit and necktie, and holds a cigar in his right hand. His...
Girl wearing a blanket over two shirts poses outdoors, with a young boy wearing a loincloth and a building with a thatched roof visible in the background. Handwritten at top of photo: Igorota widow[?]. The Igorots come from the Cordillera region,...
Actor and female impersonator Julian Eltinge was born William Dalton in Newtonville, Massachusetts on May 14, 1883 and died in New York City on March 7, 1941. Eltinge performed at Macauley's Theatre in George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris Minstrels...
Portrait of Lorena (Mrs. J.F.) Frey of Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing her hair short, earrings and matching beads around her neck. The photograph has been painted on, badly blemished, and has a lot of discoloration. Handwritten on back of...
Louise Cleland, a music teacher at the Kentucky College for Young Ladies, stands next to a rough hewn bench in an outdoor portrait. She was the widow of Dr. Thomas Horace Cleland, minister at Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church. Title supplied by...
Profile of Martha "Granny" Hogg. Widow of Calvin Coldiron (d. 1892), "Granny" donated the first land to Mamre Baptist College, which became Oneida Baptist Institute. She also sold surrounding lots to help start the town of...
Martha "Granny" Hogg. Widow of Calvin Coldiron (d. 1892), "Granny" donated the first land to Mamre Baptist College, which became Oneida Baptist Institute. She also sold surrounding lots to help start the town of Oneida. Martha...
Frame house with balcony and porch. There is a widow's walk on the roof and trees near the house. Text on verso reads, "No home in Key West is more highly valued both as as [sic] an example of our distinctive architecture and because of the...
Exterior view of house and front yard, photographed from front corner of lawn. Built in 1869 as a summer home for tobacco merchant Joseph Peterson, the Peterson-Dumesnil House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It sits...
Exterior view of house and side yard, photographed from driveway. Built in 1869 as a summer home for tobacco merchant Joseph Peterson, the Peterson-Dumesnil House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It has a partially...
