Performance art; Video recording; Film stills; Motion pictures; Fantasy; Women; Artists; Youth; Boys; Teenagers; Dancers; Dance; Recreation; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Walking; Clothing & dress; Trousers; Shirts; T-shirts; Shoes; Footwear;...
Videotape; 25 minutes, color, silent; "The idea that art can provide access to an artist's inner being is amusingly, and pointedly, repudiated here. Wearing is completely immersed in her own world. In the video, no soundtrack accompanies her...
Buildings; Automobiles; Transportation; Dance halls; Garages; Electric signs; Signs (Notices)
Address: southeast corner of Third and Guthrie Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. The Madrid Ballroom, labeled with a neon sign indicating "Madrid / Dancing," opened in September 1929 as a dance hall in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. White...
Mary Long Hanlon (Mrs. Frank Davern Burke) of Louisville, Kentucky dancing with J.C.W. Beckham, Jr. She is wearing a long dress with lace trim at the bottom and pearls around her neck. The photograph has been badly creased and marred with...
Portrait of Carol Rosenbaum of Louisville, Kentucky dancing, wearing a top hat and ballet shoes. Crop marks frame her, and the photograph is damaged around the edges. Stamped on back of image: May 15, 1933. Handwritten on back: pupil of Frances...
Two women stand in the center of a room with their dresses raised to their knees. A man stands next to them. Two women sit behind them. Title: 48. The dancing school. Copyright statement: Copyright 1905 H.C. White Co. N.Y. Text on left: Polychrome...
Pedestrians, cars, a trolley, and a horse and buggy drive along Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky. A traffic cop stands in the middle with his hand on a cord or pole attached to a box suspended over the intersection. This box may have been a...
Churches; Religious facilities; Nightclubs; Buildings
Address: 539 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the left is the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. The church has a dome and cupola. On the right is the Madrid Ballroom. The Madrid Ballroom was added to the National Register of Historic...
Address: 539 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The Madrid Building is shown with its sign advertising, "Bowling Dancing Billiards." On the first floor of the building is an entrance to a parking garage and Short's Tire Service. A...
Address: 1153 Logan Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Partially legible ghost sign on side of brick building includes the address ("1153") and the word "groceries." A newer painted sign contains a cartoon picture of a dancing man, a...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Dancers; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Mrs. Anne Bullitt Brewer of Louisville, Kentucky wearing her hair short with finger curls, earrings and a long necklace. The photograph is marked with discolorations and yellowed from age. Handwritten on back of image: Owner of (Anne...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Dancers; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Anne Bullitt Brewer, of Anne B. School of Dancing, Louisville, Kentucky wearing her hair short and curly. The photograph is badly damaged along the bottom edge and discolored from age. Stamped on back of image: credit, John T. Berry...
Children; Costumes--Great Britain; Dance; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
Six children, in pairs dressed as English ladies and Englishmen, pose outdoors in preparation for dancing the Virginia Reel at the American Folk Song Festival.
Children; Costumes--Great Britain; Dance; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
Six children, in pairs dressed as English ladies and Englishmen, pose outdoors in preparation for dancing the Virginia Reel at the American Folk Song Festival.
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men; Posing
Portrait of three men wearing three-piece suits and ties. They appear to be signing a document, so they crouch to reach the low table, but keep their eyes on the camera. Actor Billy B. Van (left) wears a bow tie; actor and boxer James J. Corbett...
Widely-reproduced photogravure character portrait of actor John S. Clarke in the role of Bob Acres in "The Rivals." He appears to be dancing, holding his left hand above his head and his right hand at his waist, and wearing a white...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
