Decorative shield featuring a pegasus, a palette with paint brushes, the drama masks for comedy (Thalia) and tragedy (Melpomene), and a pan flute or panpipe. Black ink with orange highlights. A scroll near the top of the shield has the text...
Decorative panel featuring a young man in profile wearing a helmet with wings, a horn, the drama masks for comedy (Thalia) and tragedy (Melpomene), two snakes wrapped around a staff with wings (caduceus), and a scroll with Greek text. At the base...
Figure in a robe with a harlequin design playing a stringed instrument similar to a lute [possibly a troubadour]. In the background is a castle. Above the castle is the phrase "Ex Libris." The musician and castle are framed by a peaked...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Organs; Balconies; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Demolished, 1952). Built as a vaudeville theater by the National Theater Company in 1913, the design came from the architectural workshop of Albert Kahn. The National Theater was sold within the year to the...
City & town life; Motion picture theaters; Cultural facilities; Stores & shops; Automobiles; People; Buildings
Address: 625 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This street scene shows crowds of people lining the sidewalks to get into Loew's and United Artists Theatre. The features are Ronald Coleman in Unholy Garden and a Charlie Chase comedy. Other...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men; Costumes; Posing
Group portrait of three men from the Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard comedy troupe (presumably John Gilbert, Henry V. Donnelly, and Edward Girard, although not necessarily in that order from left to right), which performed at Macauley's Theatre in...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men
Portrait of comedy duo McIntyre & Heath as young men. They are wearing three-piece suits and bow ties. McIntyre stands, leaning his right arm on the seated Heath's shoulder. McIntyre & Heath starred in five productions at Macauley's Theatre...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actors; Men; Posing
Portrait of three men wearing three-piece suits and ties. They appear to be signing a document, so they crouch to reach the low table, but keep their eyes on the camera. Actor Billy B. Van (left) wears a bow tie; actor and boxer James J. Corbett...
To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
Rectangular lithograph of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin, in three-piece suit, eyeglasses, and mustache, posed underneath a larger portrait of him (clean-shaven). This appears to be an advertisement for his performance of...
Photogravure portrait of actor and writer Stuart Robson wearing a jacket and tie. Robson, who married actress May Waldron, was born March 4, 1836 in Annapolis, Maryland, and died April 29, 1903 in New York City. He first performed at Macauley's...
Color lithograph of American actress and director Minnie Maddern Fiske in the role of Mary of Magdala. She wears regal robes of gold with a crown, and sits on a throne holding a scepter. The background of the drawing is of blue tile with various...
Photogravure of three-quarter length portrait of American actress and director Minnie Maddern Fiske seated in a chair, next to an end table and a bookcase, with her head resting on her right hand. She is wearing a long white dress, and her hair is...
Portrait of right profile of man with short hair and mustache, wearing a suit jacket, tie with horseshoe pin, and overcoat. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed at Macauley's Theatre in "Natural...
Character portrait of an unnamed actor portraying the role of Uncle Jerry in the comedy "Checkers" by Henry M. Blossom, Jr. He is wearing a felt hat, jacket, vest, and bow tie, and has an unusual beard (growing under, rather than on, his...
Full-length character portrait of stout man standing in front of backdrop of framed landscape, wearing checked three-piece suit with hat. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed at Macauley's Theatre in...
Full-length character portrait of stout man standing, with hand in vest pocket, in front of backdrop of framed landscape, wearing checked three-piece suit with hat. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed...
Full-length character portrait of man standing in front of backdrop of wall and staircase, wearing a cockeyed hat and ill-fitting jacket and pants with frayed cuffs. He is a member of Gilbert, Donnelly, & Girard, a comedy troupe which performed...
Well-known and widely reproduced photogravure of Nat C. Goodwin in costume for the role of "Modus" in "The Hunchback." He stands before a backdrop of a painting, wearing long curly hair, a long jacket with ruffled collar,...
Photogravure of full-length character portrait of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin costumed for the role of Sir Lucius O'Trigger in "The Rivals." He wears a black hat; long jacket; shirt with ruffled collar; short...
