"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...
A factory workroom at the Claude C. Matlack Company. Various parts of lamps and chandeliers sit on and around workbenches. Signs on the column read: "Gas Fixtures Made Electric Matlack" and "Special Designs Executed Matlack."...
A large pendant light fixture with beveled glass panes hangs from a chain. Part of a wall sconce fixture is in the background. Both fixtures were presumably made by Claude C. Matlack Company, which was owned and managed by the photographer. Title...
A lighting fixture showroom. Most fixtures hang from the ceiling, but there are also wall sconces as well as floor and table lamps. A service desk sits at the right. The company, which was located at 552 Fourth Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky was...
Stores & shops; Plumbing stores; Buildings; Utility poles
Address: 1534 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The Laib Co., a plumbing fixtures store on Bardstown Road, is a brick and stone building featuring a suspended sign with a clock above the entryway. Homes can be seen behind the store to the...
Buildings; Building construction; Kosair Temple (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This construction scene shows Kosair Temple being built. Scaffolding and pallets of bricks are in front of the building. A car is parked in front of a neighboring building which has signs reading, "Franklin /...
Stores & shops; Lamps; Showrooms; Department stores; Commercial facilities
Address: 427-437 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This showroom of the Kaufman-Straus department store shows displays lamps, cookware, candle holders and other home goods. As the picture was commissioned by the Acme Lighting Fixture Company,...
Address: 604-612 W. Walnut Street (Building no longer exists). An unidentified building is shown in construction. It might be the Mammoth Building. The building has a suspended canopy, and mostly brick construction. The first floor has large...
Address: 729 S. Campbell Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Utility and trolley lines criss-cross in front of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing building. The cobblestone street has trolley tracks running through it. The sign above the marble-trimmed...
Automobiles; Public libraries; Signs (Notices); Louisville Free Public Library
An automobile parked in front of the Louisville Free Public Library. A small flag on the hood of the car reads: Matlack Lighting Fixtures. Written across the bottom border of the print: Hudson 6-40 HP Claude C. Matlack 1914. See ULPA 1982.01.551.p...
Automobiles; Public libraries; Signs (Notices); Louisville Free Public Library
An automobile parked in front of the Louisville Free Public Library. A small flag on the hood of the car reads: Matlack Lighting Fixtures. Written across the bottom border of the print: Hudson 6-40 HP Claude C. Matlack 1914. See ULPA 1982.01.552.p...
Atherton Girls High School, Morton and Rubel Avenues, Louisville, Kentucky. Three-story brick building with white stairs leading from two directions to the front entrance. The section surrounding the entrance is also white and culminates in a...
Columbia Theater, Fourth Street south of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Similar image to ULPA 1994.18.1102. Stone, ornamented, three-story building with a one-story wing at the left. Central entrance and an entrance on the wing are reached by...
Columbia Theater, Fourth Street south of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Stone, ornamented, three-story building with a one-story wing at the left. Central entrance and an entrance on the wing are reached by stone stairs over a slight embankment;...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums; Columns
Columns at Municipal War Memorial Auditorium, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Diagonal view from right of three sets of pillars along a stone wall with two rectangular doorways, the left doorway barred by a stone rail and the...
Dining room in home of Isaac F. Starks at 2011 Woodford Place, Louisville, Kentucky. Polished round table with flower centerpiece and two chairs; three more chairs at walls, two of them under dark-draped windows at back of room which are between a...
Dining room in the home of R. S. Reynolds on the north side of Woodbourne Ave. east of Valletta Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Rectangular table set with silverware, flowers, white tablecloth, and two chairs with wheel-patterned oval backs; five more...
Drawing room at the Dr. and Mrs. Irvin Abell home, 1433 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Fireplace with fire screen, two urns on mantle, oval mirror and two light fixtures above. Armchair, loveseat, and two more chairs (by fire screen)....
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Presbyterian churches
Interior of Second Presbyterian Church, on Second Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky, with Gothic rib vaulting holding spherical light fixtures; pews; and altar.
Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Hotel employees; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Kitchens
Kitchen staff, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Men, most wearing white shirts and white chefs hats, sit on a long indoors picnic table and turn to the camera. The table is set. More men, also mostly in white, stand behind the table. There is...
