Buildings; Offices; Newspaper industry; Construction
400 block south 5th Street on the east side. Louisville Herald Building, a two-story brick building with a For Reint sign in the window. It is separated by an alley from a brick-and-stone building under construction with materials and equipment on...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Maps; Industrialization; Industry; Economic & social conditions; Social aspects; Industrial arbitration; Social classes; Wealth; Poverty; Economic & industrial aspects
"Fabro made his first sculpture in the Italia series in 1968. Dozens of variations followed in subsequent years. Another theme established in 1968 was that of 'Feet'. This involved the artist in producing a series of bizarre sculptural...
"The text on the label punningly translates as 'beautiful breath/veil water'. Duchamp's female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, peers out from above it." (Caption, p.54); "Among Duchamp's strangest gestures had been the creation of a female...
"Whilst implicitly acknowledging the Surrealism of [Joseph] Cornell, Arman possibly evokes [Roland] Barthes's mournful vision of commodified toys as expressed in the latter's book Mythologies (1957). Barthes wrote that in the consumerist era,...
Entertainers; Bands; Signs (Notices); Tobacco industry
A band performs on stage in front of a large audience with the bandleader playing a trombone. A life-size Brown & Williamson cigarette box is next to the band. Title supplied by cataloger.
A brick building with a high smokestack blowing smoke. The building is in stair step segments of one to five stories; the smokestack rises above the lowest section, at left. The building has a dirt yard and is located on a wide dirt road. There are...
A crowd of African Americans, mostly men and boys, stop beside a cart of tobacco and in front of a three-story dark wood building which has an awning over the first floor. One man in front holds a load of tobacco. A man sits on the awning and two...
A crowd of men and (fewer) women and children gather with several oxen and one mule hitched to a cart in front of a wide, open-sided shack located on sandy ground in front of, at left, a hill covered in bare trees, and at right, two large, bare...
A crowd of men and a few boys pose in front of a large open-sided shack with piles of wood boards all around. Four of the people are sitting on some of the piles at right; the others stand at left.
A crowd of men stand on the floor of a tobacco market in Louisville, Kentucky among large rolls of tobacco. A. W. Terhune wrote on the front of the postcard: "Have just been through place like this with Mr. Brasham Sr., Pop, June 19,...
