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...
Dining room in Mayor William B. Harrison home at 1460 St. James Court, Louisville, Kentucky. On an area rug in front of four windows which are behind one set of curtains sits a polished rectangular wood table with flowers and two striped chairs....
Dining room in John G. Heyburn home at 1435 Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Carpet and wallpaper, two dark-curtained windows and a polished rectangular table with four chairs, three more against the walls. Heavy, ornate chandelier.
Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Dining room. Polished oval table with silver tureen and candlesticks and eight chairs, plus two chairs and a small child's chair also in the room....
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums; Columns; Passageways; Lobbies
Large hallway or lobby at Municipal War Memorial Auditorium, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Boxy, perspectival view of floor, walls, and ceiling. The polished floor has patterns of large framed squares containing circles or...
Dining room in home of Isaac F. Starks at 2011 Woodford Place, Louisville, Kentucky. Polished round table with flower centerpiece and two chairs; three more chairs at walls, two of them under dark-draped windows at back of room which are between a...
Dining room in Casa Mia, house of Alexander P. Witty on Red Fox Road in Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Polished square table with rounded edges, runner, flowers, small sculptures, and four padded chairs. Pedestaled fireplace with grail and...
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Ballrooms
Crystal Ballroom, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Large room with high ceilings, a polished floor, draped two story entryways, and crystal chandeliers. Padded, straight backed chairs line the walls between the entrances.
Libraries (Rooms); Mansions; Howard Steamboat Museum
Library in the Howard Mansion, now the Howard Steamboat Museum, as seen from the hall near the west entrance around 1965. A tufted sofa is against the golden oak paneled wall on the left and a piano sits in the window alcove near the fireplace. The...
An original manuscript leaf from a late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century Persian Qur'an, written and illuminated circa 1570-1630 on handmade paper. The Qur'an or Holy Koran is the key religious text for Islam. Followers of Islam find...
“Moving from the atrium to the exedra, one passes through a tablinum or open living room (2), decorated with Egyptian motifs. They were executed with a miniaturist’s precision on a black wall polished to a mirrorlike shine. It is one of the...
"This fragment of a wall painting was among the very first ancient artworks discovered in Herculaneum after the volcanic eruption on August 23 in 79 A.D. […] This panel was executed using a technique similar to fresco painting. The design...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Maps; Industrialization; Industry; Economic & social conditions; Social aspects; Industrial arbitration; Social classes; Wealth; Poverty; Economic & industrial aspects
"Fabro made his first sculpture in the Italia series in 1968. Dozens of variations followed in subsequent years. Another theme established in 1968 was that of 'Feet'. This involved the artist in producing a series of bizarre sculptural...
