Portrait of woman with long hair wearing long-sleeve dress and small hat with feathers. It may be actress Lydia Thompson (per an annotation on mount verso), who produced and directed Lydia Thompson's Burlesque Troupe in the 1860s - 1870s. The...
Three-quarter length seated portrait of performer Thomas Jefferson leaning his chin on his left hand, wearing a suit jacket and pin-striped pants. Thomas Jefferson, a fourth-generation actor, was born ca. 1857 in New York City, the son of Joseph...
Character portrait of actor James O'Neill in costume for the role of Pierre Frochard in "The Two Orphans," which he performed at Macauley's Theatre in November 1904. He wears a white powdered wig with ponytail and a beribboned brocade...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of soprano Alice Nielsen standing in front of a set backdrop of a tree, wearing a long white dress and admiring a tree bough she holds before her. Nielsen was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 7, 1876, and died...
Portrait of actress Marie Bates wearing a bow in her hair and a dark dress and jacket. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1853, Bates died March 12, 1923 in Glenbrook, Connecticut. Marie Bates performed in "Extremes" and "Caste"...
113 maps, plus legends and information about publishers Louisville Title Company, Inc. (a real estate insurance and mortgage company), representing the city of Louisville, Kentucky and surrounding county ca. 1913, with color coding for railroads,...
Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. This original fourteenth century leaf is from a calligraphic manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz, the collected poems of the poet also known as Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz or Shamsoddin Mohammad...
Man sits on a small contraption in the middle of a set of railroad tracks, descending a mountain. The man wears a cap and has his legs out in front of him. In the background, at the top of the mountain, people stand to the side of a tunnel. Title:...
Multiple freight train cars on five sets of tracks leading to large industrial equipment with four smokestacks. To the right is a barge docked in the water. To the left are large piles of ore. Title: 6680 - Great Hoists, Hughlett & Brown...
Long train on a set of railroad tracks curving to the right around a steep mountain on the left with a drop-off to the right. Title: 8075- Rounding the Curves on Marshall Pass, Colorado, U.S.A. Text on left: Keystone View Company. Copyright 1898,...
Jefferson Davis Hotel (Montgomery, Ala.); Hotels; Automobiles; Traffic police
Large hotel building on corner. There are automobiles on the street, with a police officer directing them. People can be seen on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. An American flag flies from the the hotel's roof. The hotel was built ca. 1929; a...
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; Students
A co-ed group of cheerleaders, wearing "UL Yell" V-neck sweaters and saddle shoes, pose with megaphones. Left to Right, their names are: Bert Edwards, Lois Bewley, Ralph Wooten, Carole Rogers and Jack Fisher; Front: Dolores De Santo. The...
Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Military officers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Gestures; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Military uniforms;...
"This armored statue was discovered in the ancient city of Gabii. […] The portrait of Trajan, set on a modern neck, did not belong to the statue; it was furnished in 1793 by Vincenzo Pacetti, who produced this reconstituted piece for the...
Sculpture; Men; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Warriors; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Reproductions
Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450-440 BCE. "One of the most frequently copied Greek statues was the Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) by Polykleitos, a work that epitomizes the intellectual rigor of...
