Kate Matthews collection ca. 1890-1940.

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Kate Matthews collection ca. 1890-1940.

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The University of Louisville Photographic Archives holds the largest extant collection of Kate Matthews' work, with over 760 items including more than 362 original prints (some hand-tinted); seventy-six original negatives; one original painting; and copies of at least thirty-eight other distinct photographic images attributed to Matthews.

over 760 items (photographs, negatives, postcards and photo albums)

University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7092949

University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library

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Matthews, Kate, 1870-1956

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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...

Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows), 1863-1931

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Kentucky author, most noted for her "Little Colonel" series. From the description of Scrapbook, ca. 1880s. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49243983 From the description of Annie Fellows Johnston : miscellaneous papers, 1895-1911. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49243982 Kentucky novelist, children's book author, and poet Her most famous effort was the Little Colonel series. From the description of Poem, May 191...