Large spray of water over rocks. People stand to the left on rocks very close to the water. Buildings are visible in the background on the right. Descriptive information on back of card: Spouting Cave. Photographed by the Original J.A. Williams,...
Narrow cobblestone street between two rows of shops and other buildings close together. People walk on the street and sidewalks. A man in front has a wheelbarrow. Title: 23. In San Jose St., San Juan, Puerto Rico. Copyright statement: Copyright...
Cities & towns; Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; Buildings
Long, four-story building close to the street with small trees in front. Handwritten Title: Terrace Row, Mich [Michigan] Ave. Text on left: Views in Chicago & Vicinity Before and after the Fire. Text on right: P.B. Greene, Photographer, 315...
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,...
Train approaching from the left on a set of railroad tracks with steep, tall rock walls on either side. To the right, in front of the rock is the Arkansas River. There is an iron fence between the land with the railroad tracks and the water. Title:...
Buildings; Soldiers' homes; United States Soldiers' Home; United States Soldiers' and Airmens' Home
Two small cannons on the grounds in front of a large, white, three-story building with a four-story tower in the center. Text on left: J.F. Jarvis' Stereoscopic Views. Text on right: 135 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. Descriptive information on back of...
Close up view of debris, including twisted metal and wood, from the tornado that hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. Buildings with their facades damaged or completely gone are seen further down the street. The tornado killed an estimated...
A man stands in a tobacco field in Kentucky with only his chest, shoulders, and head visible. He is wearing a dark hat and shirt and a lighter colored jacket. The tobacco field is quite large and farm buildings are in the distance. Title: (20092)...
Buildings; Tornadoes; Disasters; Debris; Men; Women
Men stand perilously close to a structure with the roof collapsed following the tornado which hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. Men and women are on the sidewalk walking past other damaged buildings at the corner of Eleventh Street and...
Three-story brick house with shutters at the windows. The house is close to the street and has a wrought-iron fence between it and the sidewalk. Title supplied by cataloger.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities; Children; Men; Women;
Entrance of K Building. This is a close view of the doorway, focused on the columns, which have "UofL" inscribed at their tops, and the front door. A man holds the door open and a woman prepares to enter. Another woman with three...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Libraries; Banners;
Close view of the front of Kersey Library of Engineering and Technology, looking up toward the gable on the front of the building. The word "Research" is inscribed over the columns of the doorway, below a small balcony-like structure. The...
The Louvre portrait is of a "young boy wearing a toga praetexta (a purple-bordered toga) and bulla (ornament worn around a child's neck). […] Comparisons with coins bearing the image of Britannicus exclude the possibility that this is a...
"The most representative surviving part of the Forum is a stretch of the south wall containing what are known as the 'Colonnacce': two surviving columns from the Corinthian colonnade erected around the outer wall of the square, an imitation...
Lithographs; Prints; Planographic prints; Illustrations; Book illustrations; Literature; Books; Men; Saints; People associated with religion; Heads (Anatomy); Faces; Devil; Supernatural beings; Temptation
Plate 18 from Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony, third series; lithograph [illustration], printed in black. "Redon's own predilection for fantasy and the macabre drew him naturally into the orbit of Delacroix, Baudelaire, and...
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Photograph of exhibition installation, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, September-October 1953; "In this early Independent Group exhibition photographs of varying sizes were attached to the gallery walls. Others were suspended by...
"Dali's variation on Paolo Uccello's work of the same title, this is probably his most sacrilegious painting." (Caption); The Profanation of the Host […] is one of Dali's most sacrilegious paintings (although later he tried to exonerate...
"These highly stylized, non-utilitarian versions of plumbing fixtures evoke complex psycho-sexual concerns surrounding issues of hygiene and male bonding. At the same time, they participate in a witty dialogue with Jasper Johns's famous bronze...
"Although resident in America, Morley was the first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984. Funded by the 'Patrons of New Art' affiliated to London's Tate Gallery, this prize was subsequently awarded annually for 'outstanding contributions' to...
