Linseed oil is the oil from the plant linum usitatissiumum. It is not a new oil, for we read that the Greeks and Romans used it, not as it is used today, but as a food, and it is still used for that purpose in some countries, especially in Russia,...
One-story building on the corner of Second and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Building covered in signs advertising laundry services of the "New Style Pressing Club: Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing & Repairing" as well as a poster with an...
A machine for pressing down asphalt is shown on a country road. The asphalt machine has a covered section for the driver and a smokestack above a wide, centered, possibly concrete wheel. A farmhouse and building is visible above a cornfield on the...
Crowds; Men; Women; People; Theatres; Cultural facilities; Electric signs
Address: 416 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd stands under a marquee that reads, "Drury Lane / Oertel's Radio Theatre." The men wear suits and most have hats. The women wear dresses and...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; University of Louisville--Buildings; Interiors; Office furniture; Office workers; Men; Women; Cellular telephones; University of Louisville--Employees
Man stands in front of room 150D of the Houchens Building with his pants rolled up. He is smiling and pressing keys on his cell phone.
Handwritten on back of print: "Twenty-Eighth street. South 1200 block. View south from middle of block. In foreground are buildings on both sides of 28th street. In view in background is Parkland Masonic Hall, 2802 Dumesnil. 1929....
Streets; Buildings; Stores & shops; Street railroad tracks
View of Twenty-Eighth Street at its intersection with Dumesnil Street, with streetcar tracks on cobblestone road. The building on the corner houses a Piggly Wiggly grocery store, with the Parkland Billiards and Pleasure Center upstairs, and...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; History; Political issues; Apartheid; Imperialism; Social classes; War; War casualties; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Crosses; Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Soldiers; Military personnel; Military...
"Terry Atkinson, like David Hockney, came from a working-class background in Yorkshire, England. However, his affiliations when he eventually moved to London were with Conceptualism rather than Pop. Whilst Conceptualism had been international...
"This painting deliberately combines a host of allusions to Spanish culture such as the stark black/white contrasts of Goya, Velasquez, and Picasso, the Spanish poet Lorca's lament to a dead bullfighter, 'Llanto por Ignacio Jánchez mejías',...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; History; Political issues; Apartheid; Imperialism; Social classes; War; War casualties; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Crosses; Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Soldiers; Vacations; Photographs;...
"Terry Atkinson, like David Hockney, came from a working-class background in Yorkshire, England. However, his affiliations when he eventually moved to London were with Conceptualism rather than Pop. Whilst Conceptualism had been international...
Diagrams; Drawings; Paintings; Acrylic paintings; History; Political issues; Apartheid; Imperialism; Social classes; War; War casualties; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Soldiers; Military personnel;...
"Terry Atkinson, like David Hockney, came from a working-class background in Yorkshire, England. However, his affiliations when he eventually moved to London were with Conceptualism rather than Pop. Whilst Conceptualism had been international...
Fresco: "A young employee carding a tunic, and a second worker with a cage made of reeds on which fabric was stretched to be bleached with sulfur steam." (Caption, p. 137); "One of the liveliest shop fronts excavated in the early...