Stores & shops; Department stores; Furniture; Lighting
Bensinger Outfitting Co. department store advertises a washing machine for $49.50. Several dressers and seating arrangements show off the furniture for sale. A balcony surrounds the main room. Sprinklers can be seen lined up along the ceiling...
Address: 217 E. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Employees of the Spotless Meat Market stand behind glass-enclosed counters. The men mostly wear shirts and ties with aprons or smocks and a woman wears an apron around her waist. Meat products...
Address: 328 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A series of pendant lights hang above a u-shaped glass counter full of jewelry. The counter has numerous bouquets of flowers on it. Around the edges of the room are dark wood shelves filled with...
A pendant light with a shade hangs down low over a dining room table at 2515 Longest Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. The table and chairs are made of dark wood and the seats are upholstered. A sideboard sits against the back wall along with a table...
Address: 945 S. Floyd Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Located at the corner of Floyd and Campbell Streets sits the garage of the Studebaker Sales Company of Kentucky. An emblem with a wheel and the word "Studebaker" is embedded into the...
Wooden benches line the walls of the Shibboleth Lodge. A waist-high wooden stand is at the center of the room opposite a large wooden seat set atop a small dais. Stairs lead up to a balcony above the dais where a few seats and an organ are. Other...
A hexagonal marble desk sits in the lobby of an ornate bank. A sign on the desk reads, "Information" while other signs hang above teller windows with signs like "Savings." The floor is a checkerboard pattern with the lighter...
Address: 528 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Women model fashions on a runway in the new Mangel's clothing store. An audience sits observing the models. Pendant lights hang from the ceiling.
Theaters; Cultural facilities; Interiors; Historic buildings
Address: 2313 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Wooden seats are fixed in rows facing the stage at Ideal Theatre. An aisle provides walking space to the seats and the stage where a curtain is down. The stage is framed almost like a photograph...
A long hallway has lockers on either side. Pendant lights hang down from the ceiling. A water fountain is mounted to the wall on the right and a number of radiators are mounted along the walls. In the distance is a double set of windows.
Fay Shook poses for a portrait in a formal gown. She wears pale flowers in her dark hair and a pendant necklace. This is one of three poses in the same costume.
Fay Shook poses for a portrait in a formal gown. She wears pale flowers in her dark hair and a pendant necklace. This is one of three poses in the same costume. In this portrait she looks over one shoulder.
Fay Shook poses for a portrait in a formal gown. She wears pale flowers in her dark hair and a pendant necklace. This is one of three poses in the same costume. In this portrait she sits on a low wall with her hands in her lap.
Portrait of Carolyn Verhoeff of Louisville, Kentucky, in evening wear with a long pendant necklace. The photograph is damaged around the edges and badly discolored with age. Handwritten on back of image: President Animal Rescue League. Stamped on...
Portrait of Millicent O. (Mrs. Benjamin M.) Starks of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing glasses and a long, pendant necklace. Crop marks frame her face, and the photograph is damaged along the edges and corners. Handwritten on back of image: Member of...
Portrait of Millicent O. (Mrs. Benjamin M.) Starks of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a long pendant necklace and jeweled brooch. The photograph has been painted on outlining/cropping her image and is badly damaged around the edges. Handwritten on...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Building demolished in 1952). The lobby of the B. F. Keith Theatre (a.k.a. National Theatre) had a domed and decorated ceiling with pendant chandeliers. Handwritten on front: Caufield & Shook Photo....
Actress Margaret Dale was born March 6, 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died March 23, 1972, in New York City. In this portrait of her as a young woman, she wears what appears to be a wedding dress, and clasps a bouquet of flowers. Her...
A large pendant light fixture with beveled glass panes hangs from a chain. Part of a wall sconce fixture is in the background. Both fixtures were presumably made by Claude C. Matlack Company, which was owned and managed by the photographer. Title...
Sculpture; Stelae; Portraits; Group portraits; Men; Kings; Rulers; Women; Queens; People associated with politics & government; Couples; Spouses; Fathers; Mothers; Families; Family; Children; Girls; Clothing & dress; Headgear; Headdresses;...
From Tell el-Armana, Egypt. "A sunken relief stele, perhaps from a private shrine, provides a rare look at this royal family. The style is familiar from the colossus of Akhenaton [from the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, Dynasty XVIII, ca....