Shropshire Collection,
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Shropshire Collection,
- Date
- 1947-1959 (inclusive)
- Creator
- Shropshire, Ann Wallace
- Extent
- 1 cu. ft. (2 boxes): 224 images
- Subjects
- African Americans--Kentucky--History
- Agriculture--Kentucky
- Historic buildings--Kentucky
- Historic farms--Kentucky
- Historic sites--Kentucky--Lexington--Pictorial works
- Horse farms--Kentucky
- Horse racing--Kentucky
- Horses--Kentucky
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- No biogrpahical information for Ann Wallace Shropshire can be located in the archives and no aquisition information is extant.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of 224 black and white silver prints of central Kentucky in the 1940s and 1950s. Horses, historic buildings, and farm scenes are the most common topics. A variety of photographers are represented; few exact dates are known.
Contents of the Collection
Animal
Horse show,, [n.d.]
"Flying hooves on the Grand Circuit",, [n.d.]
Men and two horses,, [n.d.]
Horse's head (portrait),, [n.d.]
Woman following sheep in a lane,, [n.d.]
A mare and a colt,, [n.d.]
Man on a horse,, [n.d.]
Two men riding horses,, [n.d.]
Sheep grazing,, [n.d.]
"Lexington, KY trotting track races during the Fall Meet, 1950",, [n.d.]
Four cows,, [n.d.]
"Foaling time",, [n.d.]
Scene at Almhurst Farm; Jessamine County, KY,, [n.d.]
Winter feeding of sheep,, [n.d.]
Cattle grazing,, [n.d.]
Cattle inside a fence,, [n.d.]
Cattle cooling off in a pond,, [n.d.]
Three horses (two are white),, [n.d.]
Four horses at a gate,, [n.d.]
"Keeneland Summer Sale: Selected Yearlings", with African-American trainer,, [n.d.]
Statue "Fairplay; Elmendorf Farm, Fayette County",, [n.d.]
"Whirlaway",, [n.d.]
"Man O' War Statue",, [n.d.]
Mother and foal,, [n.d.]
"At the finish, Keeneland",, [n.d.]
Two horses,, [n.d.]
Spring lambs,, [n.d.]
Horse and African-American trainer, "Schooling Days",, [n.d.]
"Hill Gail, 1952 Kentucky Derby winner with Eddie Arcaro and trainer Ben Jones",, [n.d.]
Sheep at a barn,, [n.d.]
Cattle in pasture,, [n.d.]
Black Angus beef cattle in pasture,, [n.d.]
Horse and African-American exercise man at barn; "Man o War",, [n.d.]
Four horses in pasture,, [n.d.]
Horse and colt,, [n.d.]
"Citation",, [n.d.]
Horses on trotting track: "Grand Circuit",, [n.d.]
"First Farm, KY Derby, 1949",, [n.d.]
Horses, creek and pasture,, [n.d.]
Horse,, [n.d.]
Horses being led to a track,, [n.d.]
Horses at watering trough,, [n.d.]
"Remount stables, Hamburg Place, Fayette Co." Madden farm,, [n.d.]
"Thoroughbred Quintet," five horses at a fence,, [n.d.]
Horses in pasture,, [n.d.]
Horses in pasture,, [n.d.]
Horses with stables in background,, [n.d.]
Trotting race,, [n.d.]
Horses rounding a turn in the Kentucky Derby,, [n.d.]
Sheep,, [n.d.]
Sheep being herded on a path,, [n.d.]
Architecture
Weisenberger's Mill, Woodford County,, [n.d.]
Beaumont Inn; Harrodsburg, KY,, [n.d.]
Back of old stone church,, [n.d.]
Abbey of Gethsemani; Nelson Co, KY,, [n.d.]
"Old Stone Inn; Simpsonville, KY",, [n.d.]
Old Episcopal Burying Ground, Sexton's Cottage, E. Third St.; Lexington, KY,, [n.d.]
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Memorial,, [n.d.]
A scene in Letcher County,, [n.d.]
Scene in Letcher County (duplicate of # 59),, [n.d.]
Farm scene,, [n.d.]
Windmill,, [n.d.]
Sawmill,, [n.d.]
Building at the "Red Mile" in Lexington,, [n.d.]
Large, three-story stone home,, [n.d.]
Dr. Ephraim McDowell House; Danville, KY,, [n.d.]
Old Mud Meeting House,, [n.d.]
Large, brick and frame, two-story house,, [n.d.]
Jefferson County Courthouse,, [n.d.]
William Whitley House,, [n.d.]
Wickland,, [n.d.]
Fort Harrod,, [n.d.]
A mountain farm scene,, [n.d.]
"First Snow",, [n.d.]
Switzer Covered Bridge, Franklin, Co.,, [n.d.]
Top of Jefferson Davis Monumnet,, [n.d.]
High Bridge over the Kentucky River, near the mouth of the Dix River,, [n.d.]
Kentucky Building, Bowling Green,, [n.d.]
Stone bridge over creek,, [n.d.]
Audubon Museum; Henderson, KY,, [n.d.]
Scarlet Gate, Home of James Lane Allen; Lexington, KY,, [n.d.]
McHargue Mill, Laurel County,, [n.d.]
Smoke House at Ashland; Lexington, KY,, [n.d.]
Spring House at "The Locusts"; PeeWee Valley, KY,, [n.d.]
Large, two-story, brick house (duplicate of #65),, [n.d.]
Large, log house, two-story,, [n.d.]
"Cave Hill, Fayette County, Dr. Fred Rankin house",, [n.d.]
Old Capitol, Frankfort,, [n.d.]
Old Fitchburg Furnace (iron), Estill County,, [n.d.]
"Malvern Hill", Fayette County,, [n.d.]
Old stone pavement, 150 years old, in village of Washington, KY (the former seat of Mason County),, [n.d.]
"South Union Shaker Colony, Center House, Logan Co.",, [n.d.]
Old Dyche House, Clark County,, [n.d.]
"Daniel Boone's last home in Kentucky, in Nicolas County",, [n.d.]
Mountain home,, [n.d.]
"Forest Retreat," Nicholas County,, [n.d.]
"Morgan House Gate" Hunt-Morgan House,, [n.d.]
"Pioneer Dentist Office; Harrodsburg, KY",, [n.d.]
"Rose Hill" North Limestone; Lexington, KY,, [n.d.]
Elmendorf pillars, Fayette County,, [n.d.]
Walnut Hill, Fayette Co.,, [n.d.]
Statue of Lincoln in rotunda of Capitol Buildng; Frankfort, KY,, [n.d.]
Statue of Lincoln on a main street,, [n.d.]
Daniel Boone Monument; Frankfort Cemetary,, [n.d.]
"James Lane Allen Fountain" Gratz Park; Lexington, KY,, [n.d.]
"Tollgate House",, [n.d.]
Aerial view of bends in a river, with four bridges in sight,, [n.d.]
Shanty house in the hills,, [n.d.]
Clays Ferry Bridge,, [n.d.]
Windmill (duplicate of #62),, [n.d.]
Entrance to Duncan Tavern,, [n.d.]
Cane Ridge Meeting House,, [n.d.]
Frame cabin,, [n.d.]
Farm house and gate,, [n.d.]
Administration Building, Centre College; Danville, KY,, [n.d.]
"Woodburn", Woodford County; KY,, [n.d.]
Ashland, Henry Clay Home; Lexington, KY,, [n.d.]
Pleasant Lawn, Woodford Co.,, [n.d.]
"Sam Booth Bridge", wooden covered bridge,, [n.d.]
Farm buildings and sycamores,, [n.d.]
Jockey hitching post,, [n.d.]
Wintry farm scene,, [n.d.]
"Open Gate",, [n.d.]
St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral; Bardstown, KY ,, [n.d.]
"Shuffleville",, [n.d.]
Farmhouse and gate (Duplicate of #114),, [n.d.]
Normandy Barn,, [n.d.]
Fenced-in pasture with horses, barn in the distance,, [n.d.]
Entrance to a horse barn, with horse and trainer in the foreground,, [n.d.]
"Federal Hill", My Old Kentucky Home,, [n.d.]
"Diamond Point"; Harrodsburg, KY,, [n.d.]
"Llangolen; Lexington, KY",, [n.d.]
Old stone lock,, [n.d.]
Cityscape
Event
Industry
Coal cars coming from the opening to a mine: "Fuel",, [n.d.]
"Shucking corn",, [n.d.]
A line of horse-drawn stripping machines in a field: "Bluegrass strippers",, [n.d.]
Men cleaning animal carcasses [MISSING],, [n.d.]
Tractor operating thrashing machine,, [n.d.]
Landscape
Wintry scene at a brook,, [n.d.]
A stream,, [n.d.]
Wheat stacks,, [n.d.]
"Golden Rod, the State Flower",, [n.d.]
A brook,, [n.d.]
Trees over a brook,, [n.d.]
Stoner Creek in Bourbon County,, [n.d.]
"Winter on the Ohio",, [n.d.]
A lone, bare tree,, [n.d.]
A stream with frozen banks,, [n.d.]
Horses in a pasture,, [n.d.]
A split-rail fence,, [n.d.]
"Pine Mountain view",, [n.d.]
"Fall Harvest",, [n.d.]
"Fog on mountain",, [n.d.]
"Sun rays",, [n.d.]
A lock on a river with paddle wheeler, John J. Kelly,, [n.d.]
"Winter park; Woodland Park, Lexington",, [n.d.]
"Rail fence at Lincoln Farm near Hodgenville",, [n.d.]
"Fence and snow",, [n.d.]
Breathitt County curves; a road way through the hills,, [n.d.]
"Alligator Creek Ferry, Cumberland Lake",, [n.d.]
Waterfall,, [n.d.]
Reflection of a fence in the snow, "Winter Pattern",, [n.d.]
"Knob Country",, [n.d.]
Across Rock House Creek, Letcher County,, [n.d.]
"Snow Branches",, [n.d.]
"Snow Crystals",, [n.d.]
Country scene; windmill, rock wall and pasture,, [n.d.]
Driveway and gate,, [n.d.]
Fence-lined road with a car in the distance,, [n.d.]
The same tree-lined road with the car in the distance,, [n.d.]
"Snow fence, Bowling Green",, [n.d.]
"Summer wheat",, [n.d.]
"Autumn sunset",, [n.d.]
Calumet Farm, with white fences,, [n.d.]
Wheat,, [n.d.]
Pond at Winburn Farm, Fayette County,, [n.d.]
"Potato Knob, Letcher County",, [n.d.]
Trees along a creek bank,, [n.d.]
Creek and trees,, [n.d.]
Wintry scene and a brook,, [n.d.]
A brook,, [n.d.]
Sunset over body of water with trees,, [n.d.]
"Snow Bridge",, [n.d.]
Trees growing in a stream,, [n.d.]
The Ohio River at Maysville, KY,, [n.d.]
"Water fence; Hodgeville, KY",, [n.d.]
A huge tree with snow on its branches,, [n.d.]
A mine entrance,, [n.d.]
White fences,, [n.d.]
"Woodland",, [n.d.]
Sunset on water,, [n.d.]
Snow on hay stacks,, [n.d.]
A stack of corn shucks,, [n.d.]
A Kentucky or Patent Gate,, [n.d.]
Men fishing from a bank,, [n.d.]
A stone bridge,, [n.d.]
A view of a river with trees on each side and a motor boat in the water,, [n.d.]
"Gate over creek, Blue Spring Farm. Scott County, near Great Crossing",, [n.d.]
River,, [n.d.]
"Winter Sketch",, [n.d.]
"Geese at Spindletop",, [n.d.]
Stacks of hay in snow,, [n.d.]
Rolling fields, "Timothy heads",, [n.d.]
Corn growing,, [n.d.]
View from Iroquois Park,, [n.d.]
Trees in bloom,, [n.d.]
Rows of haystacks,, [n.d.]
Sport
"Blessing of the hounds",, [n.d.]
"Coon, Drag Hunt, in Mercer County",, [n.d.]
Dogs treeing an animal,, [n.d.]
Two riders going through a gate followed by several hunting dogs,, [n.d.]
"The Iroquois Hounds; Lexington, KY, 1940",, [n.d.]
Riders on a hunt,, [n.d.]
Transportation
Coal cars on a train crossing a bridge,, [n.d.]
"Steamboat Patrick J. Hurley passing thru the locks of the Portaland Canal on the Ohio River at Louisville",, [n.d.]
The locks of the Portland Canal on the Ohio River at Louisville,, [n.d.]
A ferry barge,, [n.d.]
A ferry boat crossing a river at Paint Lick Ferry,, [n.d.]
Fishing on the Red River,, [n.d.]
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