"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
This mosaic's "border consists of two rows of solids in perspective, each with a dot on its face, and between these a rich acanthus scroll. Except in the outer left row the solids meet in the middle. The acanthus branches spring from two...
"In the emblema Eros and Psyche (Soul) are represented seated on a cushioned couch. Their feet rest on a footstool on which their mantles make large heaps. Eros is barefoot. They are shown in three-quarter view turned in the opposite...
Men; Suits (Clothing); Group portraits; Eating & drinking; People
Over twenty men pose for a shot at a dinner at The French Village in the basement of the Heyburn Building at 332 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. It is likely that the men are the employees of Anderson Manufacturing Company. Long tables are set...
A large sleigh bed sits against one wall in this bedroom scene within Colonel Charles Christopher Mengel's home at 1325 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A dresser with an oval mirror has a marble top on which sits a number of photographs,...
Emmet O'Neal of Louisville, Kentucky seated in front of a marble mantle with attorney James Buchanan. O'Neal would serve as U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 3rd District (1935-1947) and as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1947-1949). The...
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)....
Dining room of Brent Arnold, Jr. home in Louisville, Kentucky. Polished rectangular table with four chairs; two more chairs at wall. Fireplace with porcelain on mantle. Sideboard with silver, and octagonal mirror above. Above the doorway there is a...
Well-known and widely reproduced photogravure of a full-length character portrait of performer Margaret Mather costumed as Juliana in "The Honeymoon." She sits on a high stool between a mantle and an end table, looking down at an ostrich...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Hamlet. In this full-length character portrait, Keene leans his right elbow on a mantle, with his head resting on his right hand. He wears a tunic and...
A stone fireplace and hearth in photographer Kate Matthews' family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Wreaths decorate the corners of the mantle and a framed oil painting of dogs hangs on the wall above. Handwritten on album page by...
Model houses; Living rooms; Furniture; Signs (Notices)
Living room at 1931 Home Show, furnished by Sears, Roebuck & Co., as listed on sign on wall, with suite ($175), chair and ottoman ($75), ladder back chair ($13), coffee table ($14), rug 9' x 12' ($89.99), secretary ($45), radio ($59), end table...
Statue of Liberty with water in foreground. Text printed on verso reads, "It is a colossal figure formed of plates of bronze on an iron frame work, supported on a high granite pedestal on Bedloe's Island, new York. The figure represents a...
"To the left Pasiphae, wife of the king Minos of Crete, is shown seated on a low chair with [a] back and one armrest. She is draped in a tunic falling to her feet. The garment leaves the right part of her upper body naked and is held by a gold...
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...
"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...
"Psyche is dressed in a sleeved tunic. Her mantle is made of a diaphanous material. Her head, wreathed with leaves and veiled, is tilted to her right. The gesture of her left arm and hand gives the impression that she is in the act of...
The "border shows a row of stepped pyramids and a band of guilloche, and between these a wide acanthus scroll. The latter consists of foliate male masks similar to those placed in the corners and from which branches spring in either direction....
"In a border of inverted rows of stepped pyramids (omitted in the picture) one of the most popular episodes of Greek mythology, the rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, is represented. […] To the right, identified by an inscription in Greek,...
