Lillian Fletcher feeds her pet lamb at Twigmore, her farm in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Lillian is wearing a straw hat and light dress as she stretches to hold a feed bucket up to the lamb standing in a field over the stone entrance to the spring....
The Matthews family enjoys afternoon tea on the lawn at Clovercroft. From left to right are: Charlotta Matthews Osborn, Florence Matthews, Kate Matthews, Lillian Fletcher, Edward H. Matthews, and Jessie Matthews Joy. Handwritten on verso by Kate...
Antiphonaries--Illustrations; Gregorian chants--Illustrations; Music--Manuscripts--France; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval
Leaf from a fifteenth century French antiphonary, representing a segment of text related to the Feast of the Crown of Thorns. Also called an antiphonal or antiphoner, an antiphonary collects portions of psalms and hymns sung during liturgies or...
United States--Army--Registers; United States Military Academy--Registers; Military officers; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
This August 1836 issue of Register of the officers of the army of the United States has handwritten in black ink: "Lt. Lee" on the front cover at the top, "Capt. Robert E. Lee" alongside the title, and "Lee" again...
This leather-bound account book has a worn front cover with undecipherable writing at the top and "Cadet O. M. Poe. Sept (?) 1852" written in the center. On top left corner of the inside front cover is a stamp that reads: Sold by David...
Senning's European Hotel in downtown Louisville, Kentucky; two men sitting and one standing in front of hotel. Image has been damaged with age. Handwritten on back of print: "Senning 2nd hotel, SW corner Jeff & 2nd, sold to August Miller,...
Streets; Buildings; Macauley's Theatre (Louisville, Ky.); Theaters; Cultural facilities; Automobiles
Block of West Walnut Street including Macauley's Theatre (329 W. Walnut Street) and the offices of the Louisville Post, with cars parked along street. The theater was razed after the final performance on August 29, 1925, and the Starks Building now...
A group of men stand in multiple rows In front of a building with columns. The signs on the building read "Louisville Credit Men's Association." The text below reads Louisville Lodge No. 5 Loyal Order of Moose. Class Initiation, Sunday...
Copy photograph of a team picture of the Louisville Colonels. Two rows of baseball players in uniform. In the top left corner is a picture of Don Hill, anchor for WAVE radio. Printed on the photograph is Presented with the compliments of Louisville...
Cities & towns; Government facilities; Buildings; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
View from across the street, at an angle, of the U.S. Capitol Building and extension. Streetcars cross in front. Text on left: Stereoscopic Views. Text on right: Of Washington City. Descriptive information on back of card: The U.S. Capitol. The...
University of Louisville--Students; Students; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Engineering laboratories; Women engineering students;
Students work with large machinery in Speed School laboratory. There is an elevated platform behind them with more equipment on it. One of the students is Margaret Mattingly, identified in an August 16, 1936 Courier-Journal article as "the...
University of Louisville--Students; Students; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Engineering laboratories; Women engineering students; Microscopes;
Three students work with a microscope in the Speed School's chemical engineering laboratory. One of the students is female; this may be Margaret Mattingly. A Courier-Journal article from August 16, 1936 notes that the microscope the students are...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Day care;
Scholar House is a collaboration between University of Louisville, Family Scholar House (formerly known as Project Women), the Kentucky Housing Corporation, and private donors. The Early Learning Campus opened in August 2008 and serves UofL...
Telescope enclosure at the edge of a clearing, abutting a forested area. According to the University of Louisville Astronomy website, "This metal-roofed structure houses the University of Louisville Moore Observatory's 24-inch (0.6-meter)...
Construction; Construction equipment; Construction workers; Schneider Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Pile drivers;
A pile driver stands beside a large hole; construction workers stand near the hole and mounds of dirt. They are beginning construction of the new University Library (later renamed Schneider Hall). According to the September 1955 Alumni News, nearly...
University of Louisville--Students; Fraternities & sororities; Fund raising; Students;
Fraternity and sorority members gathered around a round table with two older men. The older men are Gil Adams (left) and Sid Appel (right). There are packets and papers on the table. The students are being told what their part will be in...
"This fragment of a wall painting was among the very first ancient artworks discovered in Herculaneum after the volcanic eruption on August 23 in 79 A.D. […] This panel was executed using a technique similar to fresco painting. The design...
"The atom bomb was good news for Dali's commercial art." (Caption); "The New York Times reviewer of the Sentimental Colloquy had said correctly that Dali's 'Surrealist' paintings were now executed according to a mere formula. That...
One of six suites of nine photographs. "The Bechers' photographs of industrial structures, which they began in 1959, belong to the genres of documentary photography, sculpture, and industrial archaeology simultaneously, as well as having...
Sculpture; Effigies; Portraits; Men; Philosophers; People associated with education & communication; Clothing & dress; Beards; Mustaches
"This effigy of the august man of letters was inspired by portraits of Greek philosophers from the fourth and third centuries B.C., but it remains true to the art of the Antonine portrait in its attempts to convey sensitivity and...
