Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Civil wars; War; Politics & government; Political issues; Dictators; Nazis; Fascism; Civilization; Bombings; Military tactics; War destruction & pillage; Death; Dismemberment; Body parts; Mental states; Despair;...
"In this monumental work of 1937, Guernica, Picasso combined Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms with several traditional motifs, juxtaposing them in a new Surrealist way. The combination serves the political message of the painting - namely,...
"Picasso did forty-five studies for Guernica. The one illustrated here shows the dying horse and the mother with the dead child. They have been changed in the final painting, although they retain their basic character. The Cubist neck of the...
African Americans; Women; Sewing machines; Sewing; People
A group of African American women participate in a sewing class. Along one side of the room the women work at sewing machines which are built into desks. In the middle of the room long tables are placed end to end and women work on laying out...
Crowds; Houses; Tornadoes; Disasters; Debris; Trees
A group of people, including several children and a man holding a baby, stand amidst the wreckage of a home in Louisville destroyed by the tornado which hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. Two trees stand in front of the house on Chapel...
A little boy, holding a gourd banjo; Margy May, with a basket at her feet; and Harry Lee Gullett, with guitar, sit on a bench on the porch of the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Ky., wearing historical costumes. Their mother...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Families; Newspapers; People
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service stands next to the chair of a woman holding a baby in a blanket. Four small children sit on the wood floor and one older child leans against the wall. The nurse is wearing a cap, blouse, tie, jacket, and...
A small child, probably Mary McMurray, who died of leukemia shortly after this picture was taken, stands in a wagon or wooden box. A log cabin home is in the background. The baby's father, H. L. McMurray was a Baptist preacher and co-founder of...
A studio portrait of an unidentified baby with light hair. May be Claude C. Matlack's nephew Girdler (b. 1908), one of his two nieces (Edna b. 1909 or Jean b. 1910), or even his own son William (b. 1927). Title supplied by cataloger.
