To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Government officials; Men
Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
Pedestrians walk in front of the Palace of Varied Industries, a long white building with columns, a portico, and a cupola, at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. A sign near a group of trees in a small plot of grass says "No...
The opening ceremonies of the 1904 World's Fair at the Plaza of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd, seated on wide benches, faces two men at a podium at the base of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Monument. The monument bears the words of...
The opening ceremonies of the 1904 World's Fair at the Plaza of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. A crowd stands at the base of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Monument, alongside one of the palaces . Stamped on lower left corner: 4453. Stamped...
View of "Grand Canal" (also known as the lagoon) and bridge at World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with Palace of Liberal Arts at left; Palace of Mines and Metallurgy at right; and United States Government Building at rear. There are a...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Bows (Archery); Arrows
Native American men and women, some holding bows, others holding arrows, and one holding a tall pole, pose, probably in Indian Village, one of the Anthropology Villages at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Such "living displays"...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Indians of North America; Headdresses; War bonnets
Native Americans of all ages, some wearing feathered warbonnets; some wearing buckskin, breechcloth, and leggings; and some wearing Western-style clothing, stand in a row, probably in Indian Village, one of the Anthropology Villages at the World's...
A car labeled "World's Fair Auto Transit Co." filled with riders passes in front of two horse sculptures at the edge of the "Grand Canal" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The Palace of Education and Social Economy is...
View of "Grand Canal" of World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with domed Festival Hall and Central Cascades (three fountains). The right side of the canal is bordered by a barrier with some low and high pillars, and a boat traverses the...
Portrait of hotelier Louis Seelbach seated in a wooden chair, wearing a jacket, white vest with pocket watch fob, tie with stickpin, and mustache. Born in Rhenish, Bavaria, Germany on April 12, 1852, Louis emigrated to the United States in 1869,...
City & town life; Railroads; Street railroads; Pedestrians
View of Broadway avenue in Saint Louis, Missouri. Street with back of streetcar, horses and wagons, carriages, and pedestrians with a row of buildings on the left and wires and poles near the right. Title: (28) Street scene in the largest city of...
Clement VI, Pope, ca 1291-1352; Popes--Primacy--History; Popes--Temporal power--History
The papacy of Clement VI (1342-1352) was distinguished by
its political activism, its attempt to resurrect the impetus
for crusading, and its efforts to attract the best and
brightest talents to Avignon. The attributes which
characterize his...
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818--Criticism and interpretation; Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818. The monk
When Ambrosio in Matthew Lewis's 1796 gothic masterpiece, The Monk , signs a contract relegating his soul to Satan and eternal damnation, he has reached the culmination of 442 pages of mental anguish, of his self wrestling with his conscience to...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Events; Rites & ceremonies; People; Crowds; Military uniforms
Six men in military uniforms with white gloves and swords stand before a crowd of women (some holding parasols) and a few men at a ceremony opening the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The man in the center, with the plumed hat and epaulets, is...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; People; Crowds; Entertainment
Crowds promenading along "the Pike," a wet, brick boulevard at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Some of the buildings at left have signs: "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office," "Indian Con[. . .]."...
At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a crowd of people stand in concentric rings around a track, watching what appears to be a parade, while people walk on a path through the center of the grassy plot in the middle of the track. There...
Crowds stand in sections on the walks in front of a palatial white building with columns and spires. A large white monument, topped by a model of the Statue of Liberty standing on a globe supported by children or cherubs, is on the lawn. Four words...
Sculptures of a bull and of children; Grand Canal (lagoon); and Palace of Manufactures at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. People cross the bridge alongside the sculptures. Stamped on lower left corner: 4210. Stamped on lower right corner:...
