Varnish and its use has been known since ancient times. Altho the knowledge of varnish has been attributed to the Japanese as early as 500-600 B.C., Tschirsch and A.D. Stevens say that the Japs did not possess this art originally, but that they...
Colonel Charles Christopher Mengel and his wife sit in a room full of flowers. Both wear corsages on their formal clothes. She wears a pale dress with a jacket. He wears a dark suit with lighter pin-striped pants. Col. Mengel was President of the...
Location: Montgomery and 31st Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Cobblestone roads lead up to the High Rock distribution buildings. Three delivery trucks are parked next to the building and a network of utility lines crisscross the sky above trolley...
Fay Shook poses for a portrait in a formal gown. She wears pale flowers in her dark hair and a pendant necklace. This is one of three poses in the same costume.
Fay Shook poses for a portrait in a formal gown. She wears pale flowers in her dark hair and a pendant necklace. This is one of three poses in the same costume. In this portrait she looks over one shoulder.
Fay Shook poses for a portrait in a formal gown. She wears pale flowers in her dark hair and a pendant necklace. This is one of three poses in the same costume. In this portrait she sits on a low wall with her hands in her lap.
Twenty-one college women in pale striped shirts and dark skirts stand and sit in a group with five musical instruments, some chains of flowers, and a pillow decorated with a musical staff as well as some other decorative pillows. They are in front...
Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Pale two-lane road lined by telephone poles, and on the left side a corn field as well as a sign that says, "Obey; Smile." Cars drive in the distance on the road, and a car is parked in the grass on...
Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Pale two lane road lined by telephone poles (many papered by signs), with a treed area and a corn field on the left and with the right having grass closer to the road and trees, two stone pedestals, and a house...
Portrait of left profile of infamous actor John Wilkes Booth, wearing hair parted at the side, a handlebar mustache, and a dark suit jacket. Born May 10, 1838, the youngest brother of renowned actors Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Booth...
Northeast corner of 4th Street and Main Street. At the corner is a four-story pale brick building with a Davis Bros. Wholesale Candies sign. Next to it is a building with a sign for tents and awnings. Fourth Street north of Main is blocked by...
Exterior view of High Rock Ginger Ale Company building, Northwestern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. Signs on buildings: "High Rock Kola; High Rock Lime & Lithia, Mixes Well in Good Company; High Rock Pale Dry, Mixes Well in Good...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Women; Women's rights; Feminism; Feminists; Sexism; Stereotyping; Discrimination; Sex; Genitals; Body parts; Human body; Biology; History; Arts & crafts; Dinner parties; Celebrations; Parties; Guests; Dining tables;...
"Each of the ceramic plates adorning the table in this installation was individualized. In this photograph, the Georgia O'Keeffe plate on the right owed something of its original design to her Black Iris paintings of the mid-1920s. The plate...
