Goodman's News store, 332 W. Liberty, Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1930. Close-up of window display bearing lettering "Goodman's 'Everything to Read'" and "Out of Town Newspapers," a November 1930 calendar, an ad for tickets for...
Billboards; Signs (Notices); Real estate development
Advertisement billboard for FHA, Better Housing Program, advertising "Louisville's First Low Cost Modern Homes for $2795" (with detailed payment plan options) and "Martin L. Adams & Son Owners and Builders 1700 So. 7th St."...
Billboard at night for Glenmore bourbon. The sign reads Kentucky's Finest Bourbon. Glenmore. Makes Better Drinks. There is a picture of a bottle of Glenmore and a glass with ice and a small man in a suit preparing a drink.
Freight cars filled with iron ore. A man stands on top of one car guiding a bucket of ore. Beyond the trains are a barge and smaller ships in the water. Title: (75)-7965-Unloading iron ore from lake vessels - old and new methods - Cleveland, O....
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Bingham Humanities Building (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities;
Bingham Humanities Building, University of Louisville. This glass and concrete building is better known simply as the Humanities Building. The lack of grass on the lawn indicates that this image was taken soon after construction was completed....
Pencil drawing; "This drawing, which at nearly three feet in height is very large for Giacometti, is one of an enormous number that he produced throughout his life. His sculptures and paintings of the figure, similarly attenuated, are far...
“The first part of the project, which began perhaps as early as Augustus, was a grandiose temple to Jupiter; an inscription suggests it was completed by 60 CE. The Jupiter temple is a typical example of the compromise between Greek and Roman...
"Artaud's late drawings have been a comparatively recent discovery. His poetry and writings on the theatre were better known previously. In the latter respect, his notions of catharsis had a decisive impact on the Body Art of the 1970s. After...
First version; "Dali's atomic variation on the Assumption, with Gala as tutelary goddess of Port Lligat." (Caption); Dali's first 'religious painting', designed to ingratiate himself with Church and State, was The Madonna of Port Lligat,...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. The 'paranoiac-critical town' is composed of elements principally from Cadaqués and Palamós." (Caption); "The reference was to Outskirts of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, one of Dali's finest...
Photograph first published in the New York evening newspaper PM Daily, 7 September, 1944; "The freelance newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as 'Weegee', was notorious in New York in the 1930s for being the first to arrive at...
Mixed media assemblage including: an old wooden door, black velvet, bricks, wooden table, leather stretched over an armature of metal and other material to form a female nude, human hair, gas lamp (bec Auer type), twigs, aluminum, iron, glass,...
