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  • Bust of Emma Willard. The notation reads Public Library, Albany, New York.

  • Half figure bust of Mademoiselle Deckert de la Meillaie with her hair pulled up on top of her head and a shawl wrapped around her bare shoulders. Her hand rests on the head of a dog. One of only two known portraits by Yandell in the half-figure format (the other is the 1907 likeness of Dr. Bull), this figure represents a French friend of Enid's. The painted plaster is part of the Speed Art Museum's collection and the marble version is part of The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes collection in Nantes, France.

  • Group of small figurines Enid created between 1897-1912 including: Bluebeard's Wife (1911), The Five Senses (ca. 1909), and the Fisher Boy and Mermaid tankard (1897).

  • Kentucky Derby display, photograph by Jimmie Wallace, ca. 1960s.

  • Image of the Russell Residence, located at 205 South Peterson Avenue.

  • Childhood portrait of Toska Russell and her older brother Hobart Russell-- or Tox and Hobit as the inscriptions throughout the scrapbook reveal their nicknames to be. Locket sized photographs of Lilian and Frank appear over the shoulders of Tox and Hobit.

  • Married on August 17, 1895, this photograph shows Lilian M. Stitzel and Frank B. Russell on their wedding day. Lillian would have been 22 when this photo was taken and Frank was 26.

  • This snapshot was captured on a 1905 trip to Cuba. The photo captures the happenings and people of Obispo Street.

  • Photograph of the Russell's youngest daughter, Joyce Russell. She is pictured here in 1911 at age three on a tricycle, parasol in hand.

  • This undated image shows Hobart (Hobit) Russell getting ready to take his mother Lilian Russell and his sister Joyce Russell for a car ride.

  • Five undated images of Hobart Russell with various props and poses.

  • Photograph of an unidentified group of women outside either a suffrage meeting or a voting place in 1920.

  • Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay and sister-in-law of Sophonisba Breckinridge, served as president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1912 to 1915 and from 1919 to 1920.

  • Photograph of Bessie Terrell Meyer in her high school graduation gown, designed by Madame Grunder.

  • Dinnie Thompson (1857-1939) was a member of the Sisters of Mysterious Ten (SMT), a Black women's benevolent society in Louisville, affiliated with the United Brothers of Friendship. As a young child, she was enslaved by the Speed family, along with her mother, Diana, and grandmother, Phyllis Thurston. From 1889 through the 1920s, she worked as a laundress or domestic in private households, eventually earning enough money to purchase her own home. In the SMT, Thompson found a social support network and opportunities to do charitable work. In the Knights of Friendship, a degree of the order of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, she participated in patriotic demonstrations and competitive drills and was given a sword engraved with her name.

  • Patty Thum was known for her paintings of flowers, especially roses but she was also a talented landscape and portrait artist. She is one of the city’s earliest professional woman artists. She also was an author, inventor and a major advocate for the arts in the City of Louisville. Thum dedicated her life to art starting at the age of 16, when she left home and traveled north to study art at Vassar College. Established in 1861, Vassar College set out to “accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men”.

  • Miniature portrait of Caleb Bates. On the reverse is a photograph of his granddaughter, Florence Montgomery Durrett (1863-1869), who died at the age of 6.

  • Roosevelt visits Louisville during the 1932 presidential campaign.

  • Eisenhower, accompanied by his wife Mamie (seated lower right), visits Louisville during a campaign tour in 1952.
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