Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Luther R. Stein of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit jacket and printed tie. The photograph has small marks of damage from age. Stamped at bottom, front of image: Blank & Stoller, Inc. Stamped on back: April 5, 1932. Attached to...
A fifteenth century scribe prepared this blank leaf made of animal skin by marking 19 straight lines before writing a text. Animal skin was still being used for many books during this time, although paper was known in Europe by the fourteenth...
Address: 122 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the first floor of the Urban Building are plate glass windows with signs for "Lincoln Building & Loan Association" and "L&N." Above the plate glass windows are...
John P. Morton & Co. Stationers - Printers - Office Outfitters, located at Main Street in Louisville Kentucky, viewed with a pedestrian and two cars parked in front. Sign at the top of the building: John P. Morton & Company, with 426 on...
Decorative shield with a torch on either side. At the top is an insignia featuring a ship with sails. In a circle around the insignia are the words "The Handcraft Shops Founded 1904." On the scrolls below the insignia is the phrase...
Bookplates; Labels; Order of First Families of Virginia, 1607-1624/5
Three ships identified as Godspeede, Susan Constant, and Discovery under a sky with stars. Within the image is the phrase "Ex Libris." Above the ships is the identification "Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1620." Below...
Seal for University of Louisville featuring Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, in profile. Below the profile is the year "1846." "University of Louisville Kentucky" surrounds the image in a circular frame. Two decorative...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: title page for "Primary Arithmetic for use in Academies and Common Schools by P. A. Towne. Louisville Ky. John P. Morton & Co."; chicken; rectangular image with blank space inside and...
Woodblock prints of large images from left to right starting at top left, and smaller images from top to bottom at right and from left to right beneath large images: border of flowers surrounding picture of young child, with blank space beneath;...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. The images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: flowering plant; leaves and berries; flowers and leaves; flower with...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co. Printers, Binders and Blank Book Manufacturers," with printing press shown; narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co....
Stores & shops; Window displays; Books; Public libraries
Window display at Remington Rand with a selection of books and a chalkboard that reads "Are you bored, blank or baffled? Get back in the swing at your Public Library."
A group of young women stand facing a blank movie screen for Kaufman-Straus. Address: Kaufman-Straus Company, 427-437 South 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
"This ring is formed from a circular hollow band made from rolled and soldered gold leaf, which flares out near the bezel. The bezel, rectangular in shape but with rounded corners, is set with a blue-tinged agate in two layers against a white...
Edition of 10. "Sherman poses as a woman daydreaming. She holds a mirror, a clichéd symbol of vanity, in one hand. Momentarily her blank stare triggers a disturbing 'double-take'. She becomes a victim of crime in a police photograph, 'killed'...
