Date: December 9, 1996.

Photographer: A.B. Rue, Harrodsburg, Kentucky .

Medium: Gelatin Silver Print

Size:19x13.9cm .

Catalog No: 77.01.137 .

Copy Neg No: 77.01.137c.

One of 333 photographs commissioned and collected for display in the Kentucky Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. Arthur Y. Ford was chair of the KentuckyCommittee for the exposition and apparently retained the albums of photographs after the closing of the expositon. The albums were donated to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives by the Ford family in 1970. Two of the Ford albums contained photographs of Kentucky scenes from the Appalachian, Bluegrass and Western portions of the state. A third album contained photographs of the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, including views of the Kentucky Building and exhibits. Since the three albums contain no photographs of the Louisville and Northern Kentucky areas, it is speculated that there must originally have been a fourth album.