Prairie View Festival Homes Tour, Guy Chestnut Photos, 1988

Name/Title

Prairie View Festival Homes Tour, Guy Chestnut Photos, 1988

Entry/Object ID

P1994.4.174

Description

Prairie View Festival, Guy Chestnut Photos, Oct. 14, 1988. Includes photos from Homes Tour. Color snapshots in mini-album. A = Underexposed photo, probably taken in error. Shows people on grounds of Museum B = Antique crocheted doilies displayed on wooden rack. Caption: "Fancy work by Ladies 100 years ago." C = Antique chair, too dark to identity. D = High stone wall, cracked at mortar. 1021 S. 10th St. E= Staircase, dark wood with white posts, spirals at bottom. Location not identified. F = Rocking Chair, with white fabric seat, sits beside gilded table. Caption: "Chair, 125 years old." Location not identified. G = Velvet Upholstered Chair with doll sitting on it. Location unidentified. H = Antique lam with velvet-fringed shade, sitting on gilded table next to modern day chair. Location unidentified. I = Antique furniture in dining room. Drop leaf table, sculpture on pedestal holding vase of flowers, high back chair. Items and location unidentified. J = Antique sideboard, blond wood with glass inset panels. Location not identified K = Antique chest in same house as J above. L =Framed charcoal portrait of a woman, hanging on wall. Caption: "Portrait in Charcoal, 100 years old". Woman & location unidentified. M = Wooden staircase. Location unidentified N = Two antique dressers, lady standing between. Woman & location unidentified. O = House Entrance. Man standing beneath high, ornate stone entrance to home. Chain-link fence in front. Man & home unidentified. (Man appears to be the "muleskinner" in next picture. P = Man standing beside team of mules. at side of Museum. Caption: "Mule Skinner Frazzr (Boyd Frazer)" Mules owned by George & OlaMae MacCorkle. Q = Photo of entrance steps to yard, chain link fence in front, dog lying on sidewalk. Location unidentified. R = Man standing on front steps of Wyeth Tootle Mansion. Same man identified as Boyd Frazer above. S = House exterior on Museum Hill. NE Corner 12th & Charles. Caption: "Neglected run-down old house renovated." T= Large tree in gold fall colors. Caption: Tree in fall colors,10/14/88" Location not identified.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Museums

Search Terms

St. Joseph Museum, Prairie View Festival, 1988, Historic Preservation, Antique Furniture

Condition

Overall Condition

Poor

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Guy Chestnut

Provenance

Notes

Photographer was volunteer with St. Joseph Museums.