A careful perusal of Shakespeare’s works leads to one outstanding conclusion. Shakespeare was preeminently interested in words, as such. His every play shows a painstaking attention to words in their various shades of meaning. It is our interest...
A warehouse of the Merchant's Ice & Cold Storage Company in downtown Louisville, Kentucky has been torn down in order to be replaced. Girders, brick and wood scrap litter the lot. A small wheel barrow is at the edge of the property next to...
In the year 1573 when Shakespeare and Marlowe were already boys of nine, Chapman in adolescence, Spenser, Lyly and Richard Hooker men of twenty, John Donne, then important to only a few but destined to the company of royalty, was born. Walton...
Character portrait of Ellen Terry in costume as Portia in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice." In this widely-reproduced photogravure, she wears black legal robes and hat and holds a book. Dame Ellen Terry was born Alice Ellen Terry on...
Rare, hand-colored lithograph of actor T. W. (Thomas W.) Keene in costume for the role of Shylock in "Merchant of Venice." In this full-length character portrait, Keene wears a gray beard and mustache and a robe, and holds a document with...
Man in white stands in front of piles of hemp and a large device, possibly a scale, at the side of a road. A second man stands behind him. More people are in the background. Title: A Hemp Merchant of Manila, P.I. Published By The Atlas View Company...
Address: East 100 block of E. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This street scene shows the building of the Louisville Public Warehouse Company, as well as Armour & Company, Pickerell & Craig Co., and Merchant's Ace & Cold Storage Co....
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of H. Grady Lewis of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing dark-framed glasses and a pin-stripe jacket. Crop marks outline his image, and the photograph is marred with discolorations and age. Stamped on front of image: (credit) The Cusick Studio,...
Portrait of Edward E. Richardson of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a polka-dot tie. The photograph is torn, marked with discolorations, and yellowing from age. Stamped on bottom, front of image: (credit) The Cusick Studio, Louisville. Handwritten on...
Portrait of Ben Snyder of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit and bow tie. The photograph is cracked along the top edge and badly discolored yellow from age. Handwritten on back of image: Merchant (Ben Snyder Department Store).
Portrait of Ben Snyder of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit jacket and tie. The photograph has a yellow discoloration from age. Handwritten on back of image: Merchant, Snyder Department Store. Stamped on back: July 2, 1924.
Henry Lane Stone was born in Bath County, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg, in 1842. After his father moved the family to Indiana, he attended the Indiana common schools and was also a student in an academy in Bainbridge, Indiana. After a period as a...
Portrait of a smiling woman wearing a hat and a necklace. She may be Aphie James, who performed at Macauley's Theatre with Louis James in March 1908 in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (as Mrs. Ford); "The Comedy of Errors" (as...
Composite of three separate portraits: James Young as himself (center), and portraying Hamlet (left) and Shylock (right) in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "A Merchant of Venice," respectively. Actor, director, and writer James Young...
Portrait of actor Louis James wearing a three-piece suit and tie. Born in Illinois in 1842, James made twelve appearances at Macauley's Theatre between 1879 and 1908, performing mostly Shakespearean plays. His only visit in 1908 was several weeks...
Character portrait of actress Marie Booth Russell wearing her hair down (but with headpiece), off-the-shoulder dress, and corsage. Russell appeared at Macauley's Theatre in "The Light of Other Days" (September 1903) and in "Richard...
Character portrait of actress Ada Rehan wearing a white bonnet and fur-lined coat or cape with medallions around her neck. Born Bridget Crehan, in Limerick, Ireland, on April 22, 1857, she died in New York City on January 8, 1916. Her first...
Character portrait of actress Ada Rehan wearing a black pointed hat with white lace trim around the brim, and black velvet dress with puffy sleeves and white ruffled neckline, possibly for a role in a Shakespeare or other Elizabethan or...
Oval-shaped portrait of performer W. H. Crompton wearing a three-piece suit with white bow tie and eyeglasses attached to a buttonhole. Crompton starred in "Lady Rose's Daughter" at Macauley's Theatre in October 1903, and played with...
Portrait of actor Malcolm Bradley wearing a three-piece suit and white ascot with stickpin. He appeared at Macauley's Theatre in March 1906 with E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, with whom he frequently performed, in a series of Shakespeare plays,...
