Military facilities; Forts & fortifications; Vaults (Strong rooms); Historic sites
Gold vault under construction at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The vault is the U.S. Bullion Depository, which has been in operation since 1937. Two men wearing overalls stand beside a truck with a pulley and cranes. A pile of dirt and logs appear in the...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with the words...
"The Lion Gate at Mycenae and the towering fortification wall circuit of which it formed a part were constructed a few generations before the presumed date of the Trojan War. At that time, wealthy Mycenaeans were laid to rest outside the...
"Autograph drawing. Study in pencil and pen for a cornice (at the left above) and for various movements of the 'Nudes' on the Sistine Chapel Vault. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. 75 F. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited...
"Autograph drawing. Schematic pen sketch for a figure on the Sistine Chapel Vault or for one of the Popes. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited by P. Barocchi, page 35)." (caption,...
