From caption: C'est le chapeau qui fait l'homme / collage; from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org) (11-2011): The Hat Makes the Man / Max Ernst (French, born Germany. 1891-1976) (1920). Gouache, pencil, oil, and ink on cut-and-pasted printed...
Adolphus E. Richards was born in Virginia in 1844. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army, where he rose to the rank of major before his twenty-first birthday. At the war's end, he returned to school,...
Maps; Housing; Real property--Kentucky--Louisville; Housing--Kentucky--Louisville; City planning--United States--Maps; City planning--Kentucky--Louisville
Maps of Louisville's properties created by federally-funded Works Progress Administration (WPA). Three copies of this book were used to create a complete set of maps, since each one lacked one or more of the maps. Printed on cover: "Volume II...
Teachers; Oneida Baptist Institute; Physicians; Clinics; Medical personnel; Men; Women
Oneida staff members and visiting medical personnel pose on the porch outside Anderson Hall Medical Clinic. Isham Hensley and Jerry Burns are on the left. In the doorway are John Henry Walker, Perry Davidson and visiting physician, C. Adeline...
Soldiers--French; World War, 1914-1918--France; Military uniforms; Military life; Pacifists
Photographic postcard of André Jeunet taken during his military training in Autun, France in 1915. Other copies were mailed to his family, but Jeunet saved this one and inscribed it in 1920.
Decorative shield featuring a pegasus, a palette with paint brushes, the drama masks for comedy (Thalia) and tragedy (Melpomene), and a pan flute or panpipe. Black ink with orange highlights. A scroll near the top of the shield has the text...
Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes), 1864-1936; Radio in religion--United States--History; Religious broadcasting--Christianity--History; Religious broadcasting--United States--History; Christianity--United States--20th century
S. Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), a Christian minister at Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York from 1901 to 1936, was a popular religious figure in interwar America. From 1924 to 1928, Cadman served as president of the Federal Council of...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
BOWLING GREEN, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (122 ft. x 32 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1904. Owned by Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Co., she operated on the Green River and sank at South Carrollton, Kentucky on March 31, 1920.
Three-quarter length portrait of performer, composer, and lyricist Chauncey Olcott wearing a long jacket, vest with pocket watch fob, eyeglasses, high-collared white shirt, and boutonniere. He stands with his right hand in pants pocket and his left...
Portrait of attorney and GOP leader Chesley H. Searcy of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit jacket and tie. The photograph has been cut to an irregular shape and attached to card stock, then painted on. Stamped on the back of the image: May 4,...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
COL. A. MACKENZIE, a side-wheel snag-boat (160 ft. x 33 ft. x 5 ft.), was built at Howard in 1900. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she initially operated on the upper Mississippi River. When Captain David Tipton died at her wheel in Lake...
Tugboats; Steamboats; Ship trials; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CORDOVA, a packet and towboat with steel hull (140 ft. x 24 ft. x 8.0 ft.), was built at Howard in 1920. Owned by Federal Barge Line, she operated on the Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers in Alabama, as well as the Mississippi River. CORDOVA was...
David Warfield, a David Belasco Star (under contract to producer David Belasco), appeared at Macauley's Theatre nine times between 1902 and 1920, including twice with "The Auctioneer," in March and November, 1902. He was born in San...
David Warfield, a David Belasco Star (under contract to producer David Belasco), appeared at Macauley's Theatre nine times between 1902 and 1920. He was born in San Francisco, California in 1866, and died July 27, 1951 in New York City. In this...
David Warfield, a David Belasco Star (under contract to producer David Belasco), appeared at Macauley's Theatre nine times between 1902 and 1920. He was born in San Francisco, California in 1866, and died July 27, 1951 in New York City. In this...
Tugboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DEMOPOLIS, a propeller towboat with steel hull (140 ft. x 24 ft. x 8 ft.), was built at Howard in 1920. Owned by Inland Waterways Corporation in St. Louis, she operated on the Warrior River and was dismantled in 1952.
Address: Logan and Lampton Streets, Louisville, KY. "Café" is visible on the north side of this building but it was also offices for the Frank Fehr Cold Storage Co. in 1920.
Stern wheelers; Tugboats; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ELIZA, a stern-wheel towboat with wood hull (110 ft. x 25 ft. x 3.1 ft.), was built at Howard in 1896. Owned by Belmont Coal Co., ELIZA operated in the Bellaire, Ohio area. After being sold in 1902, she operated in the Pittsburgh area and then...
Portrait of Elsie Janis wearing a dress with lace bodice. Born on March 16, 1889 in Columbus, Ohio, Janis performed at Macauley's Theatre five times between 1908 and 1920, including in "The Fair Co-Ed" in March 1910, likely the occasion...
Full-length character portrait of Elsie Janis, possibly in the role of Cinderella. She is seated before an outdoor backdrop, wearing a short-sleeve blouse and long skirt, and holding a hat in both hands. Born on March 16, 1889 in Columbus, Ohio,...
