Buildings; Airports; United States. Works Progress Administration; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Addition to Administration Building under construction, Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. The building is shown emerging from the worksite rubble. To the left of the building is a small sign saying "USA Work Program WPA"--and the...
Seven cows of various size and a small calf stand in a row (one cow faces backwards) on a field enclosed by a split rail fence topped with barbed wire. G. N. McGrew was a farmer and stock raiser and served nine years on the State Board of...
Kentucky Derby infield crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 4, 1935. At the crowd's left, a sign over a building says in backwards writing, "Not Official." (This error likely occurred when the print was made from a...
Buildings; Airports; United States. Works Progress Administration; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Groundbreaking for the Administration Building, Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky. The dirt is being shoveled by a man in an overcoat and dark hat who is surrounded by men in suits and work uniforms. A small sign in the grass to the left says...
Hardin County Courthouse, old Courthouse in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1932. The Hardin County Courthouse is a two-story brick building with a porch, a triangular roof that also has a small pediment, and a white clock tower above the roof. There is a...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Health care personnel
Nurse of Frontier Nursing Service on horseback, no identification, Kentucky. A woman in a suit jacket rides a horse across a stream in this chiaroscuro photograph with bare trees and gentle hills on the banks. A black circle is painted around the...
Leaving to attend A. B. Chandler's inauguration, Louisville, Kentucky. A well dressed crowd of men and women (one in a fur coat) poses on the grass in front of a train on which "Taylor Democrats" is shown on two signs in backwards...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Marine hospitals; United States. Marine Hospital, no. 11 (Louisville, Ky.); United States. Works Progress Administration; Murals
Section of WPA project mural by Hendrik Martin Mayer (also known as Henrik) of Indianapolis at Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Mural depicts the meeting between European and Native American cultures. A priest stands in the center in front...
Three-quarter length portrait of Martha Habelmann in right profile, seated backwards on a wooden chair, wearing a dress with ruffles at shoulder and bodice. Inscription on print/mount, lower center: "To Mr. Macauley, Yours sincerely Martha...
Football players; University of Louisville--Football; University of Louisville--Students; Students; College athletes; Crowds; Airplanes; University of Louisville--Sports
University of Louisville Cardinals football team returns from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. Football players step out of an airplane, down the stairs, and into a welcoming crowd. A man that...
Black and white photo-collage; "This collage makes use of photographs of a project carried out by Matta Clark in Englewood, New Jersey, which involved him splitting apart a house that was due for demolition. Having divided the house in half by...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Myths; Legends; Men; Gods; People associated with religion; Supernatural beings; Fictitious characters; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Beards
"With a serene expression in the eyes and the body of an athlete, the father of the gods hurls a thunderbolt. The statue, an original bronze by a great sculptor, dates from about 460 BC." (Caption, p. 350); "Bronze statue of Zeus or...
