Cabinet card of Uzziel Hayward Stow (1809-1890) two years before his death, when he was 79 years old. He preferred plain attire and may have been a reluctant subject.
Membership certificate for early woman member, Mary Cecil Cantrill (1948-1928). Cantrill was a controversial figure at the Chicago World's Fair, when the Board of Lady Managers gave her, a white woman who was a Commissioner-At-Large from Kentucky, control over African American women's exhibits. African American exhibits were later incorporated into the State's exhibits. Cantrill was a financial supporter of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association's lobbying efforts. Cantrill was married to James E. Cantrill, a lawyer, judge, and Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
