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  • A construction photo shows seating, stage and water element of Melcombe estate amphitheater, Glenview, Kentucky.

  • Exterior photograph of the "Big House" of the Bingham estate, Melcombe, Glenview, Kentucky.

  • Barry Bingham Jr. in hat with handlebar mustache, at Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The Bingham family often spent Thanksgiving at Shaker Village.

  • Robert Worth Bingham III and Barry Bingham Jr. outdoors with dog.

  • Barry Bingham Sr. (right) and Mary Caperton Bingham (center) seated with a group at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

  • Barry Bingham Sr., his cousin Mary McKee and friend Edith Callahan at Fontaine Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Henrietta Bingham (Left), poses with her brother Barry Sr. and Mary Bingham in Antibes, France during Barry and Mary's honeymoon.

  • Judge Robert Worth Bingham (center) poses with his children (Left) Robert W. Bingham II and (Right) Henrietta Bingham, in London.

  • Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937), is pictured wearing a suit with uniformed classmates and fraternity brothers in front of a building in Asheville, North Carolina.

  • Printed broadside with a woodcut illustration and a poem describing the valor of Kentuckians at the Battle of New Orleans. The illustration pictures a half horse and half alligator as a horse with an alligator tail.
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  • Broadside entitled "Hero of the Wabash." Includes a poem telling of the cowardice of a "Captain Paul" during the Indian Wars and an engraving of an Army officer running from an attacking Native American. Captain Paul is not identified but it is believed that the broadside dates to either Harmar's or St. Clair's defeat in the Ohio country.
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  • Mourning necklace belonging to Ann Booth Gwathmey (1782-1862), married to John Gwathmey (1774-1824) on 22 July 1800.

  • Dress of Hattie Leona Main (1873-1876) depicted in a painting to memorialize her life when she passed away in 1876.

  • Providing morale and welfare services for the military, the YMCA operated 1,500 canteens in the United States and France; set up 4,000 YMCA huts for recreation and religious services; and raised more than $235 million for relief work. Designed by Albert Herter, (1871-1950).

  • YMCA poster featuring the portrait of General John J. Pershing by S.J. Wauk. Text reads “‘A sense of obligation for the varied and useful service rendered to the army in France by the Y.M.C.A. prompts me to join in the appeal for its further financial support. I have opportunity to observe its operations, measure the quality of its personnel and mark its beneficial influences upon our troops, and I wish unreservedly to commend its work for the Army.’ – Pershing — United War Work Campaign – November 11-18, 1918”. Text below image states “Message was cabled from France on August 21, 1918”. This poster was produced by the Committee of Public Information’s Division of Pictorial Publicity.

  • Artist Arthur William Brown (1881-1966) illustrated for the Saturday Evening Post and created illustrations for the short stories of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. This poster was produced by the Committee of Public Information’s Division of Pictorial Publicity.

  • The war opened a variety of employment opportunities to women. A 1918 YMCA “War Work for Women” pamphlet cited 1.5 million women engaged in “War Orders.” This YMCA poster by Clarence F. Underwood (1871-1929) illustrates a Signal Corps worker. Known as “Hello Girls” these women wore military uniforms and conformed to military law but were considered civilian military employees.

  • American Red Cross poster illustrated by Haskell Coffin (1878–1941). Features a Red Cross nurse with outstretched hands. Text reads “Third Red Cross Roll Call”

  • American Red Cross poster showing a nurse in the fore depicted in the style of Virgin Mary and an oversized red cross with text that reads “Make Our American Red Cross In Peace as in War — ‘The Greatest Mother in the World’ — Third Red Cross Roll Call Nov. 2-11, 1919.” Illustrated by A. E. (Alonzo Earl) Foringer, (1878-1948).

  • Successor of the “Gibson Girl,” Howard Chandler Christy’s (1873-1952) interpretation put his leading lady into wartime service for the United States Navy, Marines, and Red Cross, as seem here. Christy would become one of the Jazz Age’s most popular portrait painters
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