Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Photographs; Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Signs (Notices); Collages; Language; Slogans; Graphic design; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Advertisements; Advertising; Publicity; Social aspects; Power (Social sciences);...
Top left: We Get Excited [Exploded] Because They Have Money and God in Their Pockets, 1985, poster, New York City; Top center: Surveillance is Your Busywork, bus placard for Nexus project, Atlanta, 1985, photograph courtesy Gerald F. Jones,...
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front; Men; Soldiers; Turbans; Canteens (Wartime, emergency, etc.); Signs (Notices)
Young man, believed to be a French colonial soldier, in a military camp in the Balkans during World War I. He is wearing a turban and standing in front of a directional sign that points to the "cantine" where there is drinkable water...
Men; African Americans; Construction workers; Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Sewers; Pipes (Conduits); Signs (Notices); United States. Public Works Administration
Men, including some African Americans, sit and stand at a construction site where a large pipe running beneath a road is partially buried and partially exposed. A Public Works Administration sign is on site.
Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Men; Construction workers; Construction equipment; Sewers; Pipes (Conduits); Signs (Notices)
Men stand on top of wood scaffolding above a trench. An attached sign reads ""Outfall Sewer. This is the largest concrete sewer in the United States.""
Display of Regina Double Mesh Hair Nets in window of J. G. McCrory Co. 5 & 10₵ Store, 428-32 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Title supplied by cataloger.
Eight trucks (numbered 70 through 77), the one in the foreground displaying lettering for "Delivery Department," parked on street in front of Yellow Cab Truck Rental at Ninth Street and Liberty Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The building...
Exterior of The Granville Inn ("Sandwiches / Cigars / Ice cream / Chili / Barbecu / Tobacco / Candy / Coca-Cola / Restaurant"; "Sterling Beer"), on the Southeast corner of 3rd and Gaulbert Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. It is...
Indian Gas Station located on 2nd Street (near George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge), Louisville, Kentucky. Back of "Louisville, Gateway to the South" sign is visible near bridge. Signs on brick building adjacent to gas station read...
Restaurants; Eating & drinking facilities; Buildings; Signs (Notices); Electric signs
Exterior of The Granville Inn ("Sandwiches / Cigars / Ice cream / Chili / Barbecu / Tobacco / Candy / Coca-Cola / Restaurant"; "Sterling Beer"), on the Southeast corner of 3rd and Gaulbert Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Exterior...
Theaters; Motion picture theaters; Cultural facilities; Buildings; Advertisements; Signs (Notices); Electric signs
Facade of the Towers Theatre (later Knox Theatre), located at 331 W. Oak Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Posters for films "Now Playing," "Padlocked" and "Mismates," indicate a date of 1926, although...
Two-story brick building at the corner of Fifteenth and Green (now Liberty), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor business is Smith's Grocery; a man and a young child stand near the door. On the side of the building are two painted signs: one for...
Large two-story building at the corner of Fifteenth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Sign painted on the side reads "Hy. Fruechtenicht Groceries, Fresh Meats, & Vegetables." A man in an apron stands in...
Buildings; Cafes; Bowling alleys; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Electric signs
Large three-story brick building at the corner of Eighteenth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses O. J. Baker's Cafe and Bowling Alley. Large windows on the second floor with ornate decorations on top.
Two-story brick building at the corner of Nineteenth and Cedar (formerly Grayson), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor business is H. Hanekamp's West End Liquor House and Saloon, with painted advertisements on the side of the building for H....
"During the 1960s Rauschenberg, like many other artists, increasingly used silkscreen transfers to create a kaleidoscope of images deriving from the daily press and motion pictures even more than from the example of the Dadaists (plate...
