Library in Mayor William B. Harrison home at 1460 St. James Court, Louisville, Kentucky. A wood and plush armchair and two sets of pillars mark the curved entrance to the library, a small room where there is a low built-in bookcase under three...
National parks & reserves; Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887; Rock formations
Rock formation shaped like a chair. Named "Jenny Lind's Armchair" in honor of the opera singer Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale. Lind once sat in this chair at Mammoth Cave Park, Kentucky. A woman wearing a sweater, skirt, and...
Two rooms with an extra-wide doorway connecting them are shown in this unidentified residence. The first room has a stuffed armchair and another chair. The second room is a dining room with table, chairs, and cabinet. While the first room has two...
Address: 309 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. The Bomar-Summers store windows advertise the RCA Victor Radio. A living room scene is created with armchairs, tables and rugs with a backdrop of glamorous women....
Guest room at the Pendennis Club, Louisville, Kentucky. The room features carpeting, drapes, wallpaper, chandelier, flowers on table, armchair seating, and fireplace with portrait above.
Entrance hall at the Dr. and Mrs. Irvin Abell home, 1433 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Corner of entrance hall. Stiff armchair and couch with large ornate oval mirror above. The wall has a curved section built in specifically under the...
Library at the Dr. and Mrs. Irvin Abell home, 1433 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Books seem to be behind glass in the upper half of a case on the right. There are two taxidermy heads on the wall. A table with lamps has many rows of...
Drawing room at the Dr. and Mrs. Irvin Abell home, 1433 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Fireplace with fire screen, two urns on mantle, oval mirror and two light fixtures above. Armchair, loveseat, and two more chairs (by fire screen)....
Arthur D. Allen home in Glenview, Kentucky. Room holds library table and chairs. Small table against wall holds lamp, candles, and knickknacks. An embossed chair left of the table has books on its seat. A straight-backed armchair is right of the...
Robert H. Lucas house at 341 South Birchwood, Louisville, Kentucky. Family in living room. Robert Lucas reads Travel as his teenage daughter sits on the arm of his armchair and his wife reads a book on the couch. A magazine rack holds Nature. There...
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Reception rooms
Reception room, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Small room with white walls and a faded area rug over a carpet with a contrasting pattern. Matching sofa and armchair. Small table with flowers, and a bureau on legs with a white vase. Large...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Parlors
Parlor, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Medium sized room with white walls and worn area rug. Two windows with floral drapes on rods, the inner drapes drawn. Secretary with glassed in bookshelf; desk chair; sofa; armchair; and three small...
Full-length character portrait of right profile of actress Billie Burke, possibly in costume for her role in "Love Watches," which she performed at Macauley's Theatre at Christmas 1909. She leans forward in an armchair, toward a set...
Full-length portrait of a woman wearing an elegant floor-length gown, reclining on an upholstered armchair. Inscription on print, lower right: Kindest regards and best wishes for "Uncle" John Macauley from Nellie McNaughton (?). Denver,...
Children; Men; Women; Animals; Toys; School children; Reading; Sewing
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: Baby playing with doll in pillow-filled basket, with dog on pillow outside basket; seated girl wearing dress with crinolines holds something up to standing woman wearing dress with bustle;...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: dog leaping out of window, with plaid pants in mouth; girl in rocking chair reading; girl looking up from book; hand grasping twenty dollar bill, with another bill underneath; rooster,...
Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the...
