Fire engines; Firefighting equipment; Fire stations; Fire fighters
Firemen stand on and around fire truck, labeled "No. 6." The firemen wear cloth uniforms. They stand in front of a stone building bearing the inscription "Headquarters C.F.D." Postmarked 1913 on verso. Published by S.H. Kress...
Christmas cards; Christmas presents; Christmas trees; Girls; Santa Claus
Santa Claus with two young girls. Santa Claus wears a red suit with fur-trimmed sleeves and hat. He has white hair and black boots. The two young girls wear white dresses. One is seated on Santa's lap and holds a doll; the other leans against...
Two dear in the snow near a snow-covered structure. The scene of the deer is framed, with an ornate "A" (in "A Christmas wish") and holly with berries. Postmarked 191? on verso (final digit is indistinct). "Ser. F 303"...
Cupid sits on the ground by pile of hearts, some of them pierced with arrows. His quiver of arrows lies nearby. An inscription is printed at the bottom of the card: "My heart, one of Cupid's collection, / Pleads ardently for your...
Betsy Ross' house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A small red brick house with white trim and an old fashioned American flag flying from a dormer window on the roof. Text printed on verso reads, "The Betsy Ross House is a quaint little shop...
Three children - a boy, a girl and a very young girl - pick grapes from a vine. The boy stands on a box and hands bunches of grapes down to the older girl, who holds a basket. The younger girl is poised to pick up grapes from the ground; she holds...
Cheerleading; University of Louisville--Students; Fairgrounds Stadium (Louisville, Ky.)
U of L varsity Cardinal Cheerleaders stand in a line in at Fairgrounds Stadium during the U of L vs. Memphis State football game. From left to right: Jeanne Carol Camp, Anne Louise Weyhing, unidentified woman, Karen Koshewa. Note on back:...
Libraries; Construction; Construction workers; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings;
Ekstrom Library while under construction, north wing seen from the south. A construction worker stands on a concrete beam on the third floor. The frames for the circular windows of the north wing have been constructed. A crane and several...
Libraries; Bookstacks; University of Louisville--Students; Ekstrom Library (Louisville, Ky.); University of Louisville--Buildings; Sofas;
Students sit on a sectional sofa in front of the stacks in Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville. Further information on Ekstrom Library: The architects and the Commonwealth were given the 'Honor Award' by the Kentucky Society of...
Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Memorial works; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Bas-reliefs; Portraits; Families; Men; Women; Couples; Spouses; Fathers; Mothers; Children; Boys; Youth; Slaves; Servants; Women domestics; Working class;...
"The father (pater in the epitaph) was the libertus of Quintus Servilius (Q.L.) and took his patron’s name upon manumission (gaining freedom). His wife (uxor) was formerly a slave of a woman named Sempronia. She too assumed her patron’s...
“An aerial view of the Acropolis as it might have appeared at the beginning of the fourth century BC. Besides the important sanctuaries on the summit, many shrines dating back to the Bronze Age were located along the sides of the hill. / A-...
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,...
"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...
"A full-scale replica of the ship in the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey." (Caption, p. 315); "Without doubt it was a royal cargo. And an exceptional one, at that. We can only guess how its loss, toward the end of...
"Artifacts from the wreck include: the ivory figurine of a female acrobat with her feet on her head; a gold pendant of a nude fertility goddess holding gazelles in her hands; a partly gold-clad bronze figurine of a goddess, perhaps the ship's...
