"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
Portrait of Dr. W. Hamilton Long of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing wire-framed glasses. The photograph has been painted on, with spots of glue on the surface and discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: Dr. W. Hamilton Long, General Chairman:...
William Walter Cleary was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1831. He was an 1849 graduate of Transylvania University and in 1849, graduated from its law department with honors. In 1852, he was admitted to the bar and settled in Cynthiana, Kentucky....
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Walter Greenlee wearing wire-framed glasses and printed tie. The background of this photograph has been painted, missing bottom corner and small cracks along the edges. Stamped on back of image: February 8, 1936. Attached to back:...
Three sets of photographs with two to four photographs per set showing individual men employed at Washburn Crosby Company. The men are shown from the chest up. Address: General Mills Inc., (Washburn Crosby Company), 2432 South Floyd Street,...
Language; Slogans; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Graphic design; Advertisements; Advertising; Feminism; Women; Social aspects; Social classes; Social life; Social justice; Social values; Political issues; Discrimination;...
"Barbara Kruger, rather than making her own photographs, has combined found media imagery involving the male gaze and its various hidden projections of personal power with brief texts of her own devising. Sometimes by reinforcement of the...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Military officers; Military uniforms
Portrait of General William B. Haldeman of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a military uniform. The photograph is silvering and marred with discolorations. Stamped on back of image: November 19, 1931.
William I. Gazan of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit with a plaid tie and handkerchief. Crop marks frame his head, and the photograph has discoloration and cracks. Stamped on back of image: April 23, 1933. Handwritten on back: General manager...
Shield at an angle with a thick, angled stripe and three circles. Above the shield is a knight's helmet and large ornamental flourishes. Above the design is the phrase "Ex Libris" followed by the word "Oxmoor" in quotations. At...
Child in glasses and oversized overcoat sits in chair holding a "newspaper" that advertises Wintersmith's Chill Tonic. Arthur Peter & Co., Louisville, is listed as the "general agent" for the chill tonic. A post script is...
University of Louisville--Presidents; Radio stations; WLOU (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.); College presidents;
University of Louisville president Dr. John W. Taylor sits at a table with Mrs. John E. Messervy, president of the Louisville Broadcasting Co. and general manager of the newly established AM radio station WLOU; there are papers on the table in...
University of Louisville--Presidents; Radio stations; WLOU (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.); College presidents;
University of Louisville president Dr. John W. Taylor sits at a table with Mrs. John E. Messervy, president of the Louisville Broadcasting Co., and general manager of the newly established AM radio station WLOU. The other two gentleman are probably...
William J. Hendrick was born near Flemingsburg in 1855. He graduated Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1873. He read law and was admitted to the Fleming County bar in 1870. In 1881, he was elected to the Kentucky legislature and he represented...
Woman in long pink dress holds a child on her lap. The child has its arms around the woman's neck. Printed below the picture is a post script: "Yes this country is full of malaria but it does not bother us as we take Wintersmith's Tonic and it...
