Mack Hughes

Mack Hughes lived and worked as a professional photographer in Lexington, Kentucky. Harry Mack Hughes received an A.B. in Journalism in 1939 from the University of Kentucky where he was a member of Delta Sigma Chi, was the football manager, and on the golf team. Many of his photographs were published in local newspapers.

The photos at this set were taken at a college event in 1957 called the "Lanus Carnival," seemingly good clean fun (but a lot of the photos seem to have a salacious edge to them).

 [this seems pretty innocent until one sees the pin-up girl calendar images tacked up on the side]

 

 [I'm not seeing much innocence on display here...]

 

 [precisely what "skill" is being celebrated here...?]

 

Louis Edward Nollau

Louis Edward Nollau was a professor of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Apparently he was also an accomplished amateur photographer.

 "Lo 1936", Band and singer performing for studio audience, 1936

  

 4-H winners, Somerset, Kentucky, girls' quartet, first place award, 1926

  

 Entrance to the University of Kentucky with a car 

pulling students on a sled toward Frazee Hall, 1920

  

 Kentucky-grown apples

  

 May Day parade float, 1936

  

 May Queen, University of Kentucky, 1934

  

 

 Women on horseback, May Day, 1934

 

 Preserving eggs

  

 Senior Breakfast Alumni Tea, African-American servers 

in first row and yard workers on truck, 1934

  

 Warrior River flood, Alabama Great Southern, looking south from north end, 1916

[I consider this a top ten photo - one of the best]

University of Kentucky

 Elementary students working in Mrs. Haines art class at U - Hi, 1955

  

 Group portrait of Greendale students riding in a horse-drawn wagon

  

 May Day, 1926. University of Kentucky students having fun with the evolution debate

  

 The tamest game of cards ever recorded in Kentucky - 

no chips and the people around have no scared looks, 1906

[tamest even though there are two guns in the scene?]
[image quality is not very good but it's such a great picture I had to include it]

  

 Waitresses at the Jerry’s Drive-In Restaurant registered a friendly protest after hearing a report that the company was ordering new chemise uniforms for all its waitresses, 1958

  

 Watermelon feast, probably during the summer session, 1956

  

 Women waiting in line to get food, 1955

  

Women working on the assembly line at the 

National Distillers Corporation packing department in September 1944

University of Kentucky

 Dr. Jeanette Sams, track veterinarian, performing 

a saliva test on a horse at the Lexington Trots in 1952

  

 Elementary school students ready for a field trip, 1941

  

 SAE dance at Lexington Club, 1949

  

 SAE house dance, ca. 1948-50
[my god! it's Obama (back right)]
[sure looks like him anyway (though I'm sure this guy is white)]

  

 SAE house dance, ca. 1948-50

  

 SAE X-Mas party, 1950

  

 Sigma Nu party, 1949

  

 Sigma Nu party, 1949

  

 Students walking to class, 1955

  

 Students walking to class, 1955

  

 Suzanne Freed (l) and Margaret Futwell (r) are unpacking in a dorm room, 1955

  

Three unidentified women in the lobby of a dormitory, 1955

University of Kentucky

More photos from their archives.

 "The Medium," 1956

  

 Fans cheering at a sporting event, 1955

  

 Lance's Carnival, 1949

  

 Lance's Carnival, 1949

[funny how "Cleopatra" is dressed like Wonder Woman!]

  

 Lance's Carnival, 1949

  

 Lance's Carnival, 1949

  

 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949

  

 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949

  

 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949

  

 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949

  

Women of the Chi Omega sorority socializing, 1955