Photographer Kate Seston Matthews (1870-1956) was born in New Albany, Indiana and spent most of her life in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, where she began taking photographs in the 1880s. While she is best known for her photographs depicting characters in the Little Colonel series of children's books written by her friend and neighbor Annie Fellows Johnston, Matthews also created tableaux vivants, or living pictures, based on nursery rhymes, fairy tales, poetry, and other works of art, and she captured on film an idyllic view of the people, architecture, and landscape of her in the small, rural community near Louisville, Kentucky.
From the description of Kate Matthews collection ca. 1890-1940. (University of Louisville). WorldCat record id: 230929960
