Bridges; Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Company
Kentucky-Indiana Bridge across the Ohio River. Muddy shore on right; calm water; trees on left shore. A diagonal arrow is drawn on the left side of the photo, pointing to the water.
Vehicles; Cruisers (Warships); United States. Navy
U.S.S. Louisville rescuing 465 passengers from the steamship Harvard stranded on reef off California coast on May 30, 1930. Passengers standing on deck. Ship's shadow visible in the calm water. Associated Press caption on back of image: "The...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Scroll decorated with holly, bearing the inscription:"Glory to God!' the sounding skies loud with their anthems ring, peace to Earth, good-will to men, from Heaven's eternal king! Light on thy hills, Jerusalem! The Saviour now is born; more...
"Within the same generation as the Expressionist [Alice] Neel was the rather Post-Impressionist Fairfield Porter, who painted radiant, grandly composed intimist pictures that, albeit thoroughly American, seem aesthetically and spiritually at...
