A train bearing the words "Kosair" and "Monon" and the emblem for Kosair Templars sits on the railroad tracks. The wheels on the engine section have pictures of camels decorating them and there is bunting as well. A couple of...
Installation of brew tanks, Fehr's Brewery, Louisville, Kentucky. A huge brew tank is suspended on its side by a crane (to which it is tied by one cable) outside Frank Fehr Brewing Company, where there is a square hole cut in the second floor brick...
Buildings; Apartments; Building construction; Dartmouth Apartments (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 1416 Willow Ave. Between 1912 and 1930, 165 apartment buildings were constructed in Louisville. During this period, Joseph & Joseph built three luxury apartment buildings near Cherokee Park which are regarded as cultural landmarks: The...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969.) This scene from the construction of the Rialto Theatre shows workmen standing on beams and four men in suits. We are fairly certain that the two men in the middle are Alfred Joseph (left) and his...
Buildings; Building construction; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969.) This photograph captures the building of the Rialto Theatre. You can see the rounded edge of the stage as well as the tiered seating. Numerous workmen are shown, but the picture is centered on two...
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This construction scene shows Kosair Temple almost completed. Windows are still missing from the first floor. A number of wheel barrows are in front of the building, and a pulley system is attached to one of the upper...
Shepherds; Animals; Indians of North America; Sailors; Men; Children; Spears; Covered wagons; Camps; Circuses & shows; Parades & processions
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: elderly shepherd rests with sheepdog, while sheep graze in background; shirtless man with Mohawk and feathers in hair wrestles and points knife at bear, while frightened child flees;...
Men; Women; Children; Newspapers; Ladders; Sailors; Ship equipment & rigging; Animals; Discovery & exploration; Indigenous people; Indians of North America; Danger; Violins; Log cabins; Pipes (Smoking); Play (Recreation); Knights
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: boy, standing in room with man holding newspaper, gesturing through...
City & town life; Buildings; Stores & shops; People
Six- or seven-story narrow but long stone building at a city street corner. A few workmen are at street level, and trucks are parked in front of the building. Address: Southwest corner. 3rd Street and Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Sculpture; Jetties; Industrialization; Industry; Petroleum industry; Land use; Ecology; Nature; Bodies of water; Lakes & ponds; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views; Film stills; Motion pictures; Maps; Dirt roads; Roads; Streets; Books
Documentation of film stills from Spiral Jetty, 1970. "These are frames from Smithson's half-hour-long film based on his Spiral Jetty. Shots taken of the dusty road on the way to the site of the work were intercut with images of the blazing...
"Judd's industrially manufactured, modular pieces, developed from 1966 onwards, were stubbornly empirical investigations of specific materials and visual effects. He shunned mystification and openly declared the nature of his structures. The...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
