Sarah Davidson Burns, her grandson Henry Burns, and her great-granddaughter Violet sit at the hearth inside Sarah's cabin. Sarah is smoking a pipe. Her cabin was beside the Dry Branch of Bullskin Creek. The cabin walls are lined with newspapers and...
A large wood-working room inside a sawmill at Oneida. There are large saws, workbenches, planes and other tools. Round-bottom fire buckets line one wall. Handwritten on bottom border: 518. Title supplied by cataloger.
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: men with plumed hats holding swords and men with helmets holding spears looking over valley at distant mountain range, from which smoke signals emanate; man sitting outdoors with books...
A boy wearing metal pails on his feet stands in water surrounding a house. Labeled time is 11:00. Image is stamped Image is stamped Ohio River Flood January - February 1937 by Commissioners of Sewerage of Louisville, Ky.
Exterior of corner Kroger/Piggly Wiggly grocery store at the time of the 55th birthday sale (likely the 55th anniversary of the founding of Kroger, in 1883). A grocer in white apron stands in the doorway. Garden hoses, pails, and sacks of potatoes...
People crouched at low tables with food and baskets or pails. They are below a grass roof held up with beams and enclosed by a low wall. Title: Javanese Tiffin House. Text on left: Published By The Atlas View Company 147 Fifth Avenue, Chicago. Text...
Chicks in a yard. One stands on a bucket, another sits inside the bucket, which is laying on its side. A small green frog looks up at one of the chicks. Postmarked 1913 on verso.
Greeting cards; Wells; Pails; Houses; Fences; Trees
Well with tall pole for well-sweep. In the background is a house surrounded by a rail fence. On the other side of the well is a small cluster of trees, reminiscent of an orchard. The inscription is from the Samuel Woodworth poem, "The Old...
Paintings; Allusions; Anti-Americanism; Politics & government; Political issues; Capitalism; Imperialism; Wealth; Corruption; Poverty; Emigration & immigration; Social classes; Economic & social conditions; Domestic life; Child labor;...
"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine....
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Puns (Visual works); Sex; Couples; Relations between the sexes; Human body; Body parts; Anatomy; Genitals; Pails; Containers; Fruit; Melons; Food; Citrus fruit; Oranges; Cucumbers; Vegetables
"Lucas grew up in a working-class environment in East London and uses its idioms in her work. To some extent she has also borrowed from the American art that she saw in the late 1980s in London's Saatchi Gallery. Her 'grungy' abject imagery...
School yearbooks; Schools; Students; University of Louisville--Students; Alumni & alumnae; University of Louisville--Alumni and alumnae; Student organizations; Universities & colleges; Medical students; Dental students; College students;...
Yearbook published by the students of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924.
