Bourbon County Memorial Building, Paris, Kentucky, 1922. A crowd throngs at the memorial building yard, porch, and windows. Upstairs there are small groups of people in each of four open windows and one woman is sitting on an open window, hanging...
Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville (Ky.); Medical students; Teachers
Hospital College of Medicine 1898 - Composite photograph for the Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students in the medical school class of 1898. Ordered rows of rectangular portraits of men in suits and...
Full-length character portrait of performer Mabel Deane perched on a small table, wearing a small sombrero, shirt with wide sleeves and a sash, and shorts over tights. Deane performed in "Peggy from Paris" at Macauley's Theatre in...
Autographed full-length character portrait of renowned French actress, producer, and writer Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon in Edmond Rostand's play about the son of Napoleon I. She wears a white uniform with tasseled sash and knee-high riding boots....
Full-length character portrait of renowned French actress, producer, and writer Sarah Bernhardt standing on a stage set of an interior, wearing a long velvet dress with train and long gloves, and holding a wand or baton. Born Henriette-Rosine...
Three-quarter length character portrait of renowned French actress, producer, and writer Sarah Bernhardt leaning against a frieze, wearing a dark dress with buttons up the front and gingham trim, a rope belt, and a cape. Born Henriette-Rosine...
Three-quarter length portrait of Helene Dauvray wearing an evening gown with opera-length gloves. Born Helen Gibson in San Francisco, California, in 1859, she adopted her stage name after performing abroad in Paris. She performed at Macauley's...
Three-quarter length character portrait of Helene Dauvray wearing a black bow in her braided hair and a dress with short jacket, white pinafore, and striped skirt. Born Helen Gibson in San Francisco, California, in 1859, she adopted her stage name...
Three-quarter length character portrait of renowned French actress, producer, and writer Sarah Bernhardt seated on a throne, wearing a regal gown and crown. Born Henriette-Rosine Bernard (or Bernardt) in Paris, France on October 23, 1844, Sarah...
Full-length character portrait of French actress Mademoiselle Angele in outdoor scene, wearing long fitted dress with matching cape (held in right hand) and hat, and holding miniature dog in left arm. Annotation on mount verso, upper center: Mlle....
Portrait of actress Eleanor Whitney, who was an understudy in Macauley's Theatre production of "Peggy from Paris" in November 1903. She is wearing a large ruffled hat. Inscription on print, lower half: Eleanor Whitney only an understudy...
Autographed full-length portrait of performer, lyricist, and composer Anna Held standing with arms outstretched, wearing an elegant gown and headdress. Born in Paris in the 1870s, she married Maximo Carrera, then theatre impresario Florenz...
Full-length character portrait of performer Clara Lavine standing before a backdrop of an outdoor scene, wearing a leotard with puffy sleeves and tassels, and a cape. The inscription indicates that she had a role in "The Girl from Paris,"...
Book of Hours--France--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts--France--Renaissance, 1450 - 1600
Leaf from a Book of Hours, a book used for private prayers, written by hand on a sheet printed with woodblock borders. The Book of Hours originally including this leaf was made in Paris around 1524. The leaf is from a supplemental section, the...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1500-1550
A Book of Hours was the primary text for private lay devotion in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Consisting of the cycle of prayers to be recited at the eight canonical hours or established times for prayers throughout the day, the content of...
Engraved print of Louisville's waterfront by artist Charles Chardon of Paris, depicting horse-drawn carriages, people milling around, smoke coming from chimneys and smoke stacks of buildings and boats. Typed beneath image: "Noel del; Imp. Ch....
Description in Kozloff: Copper disk with metal stand and electric motor; Information from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (11-2011): Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics), Paris, 1925. Painted papier-mâché demisphere fitted on...
"The Hungarian-born photographer Brassai (Gyula Halasz) moved to Paris in the early 1920s and became friendly with avant-garde figures such as Picasso. In the 1920s and 1930s he photographed the low life of the city, deeply influenced by a...
Performance art; Performances; Painting; Body painting; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Artists; Men; Dandies; Women; Nudes; Audiences; Spectators; Orchestras; Music ensembles; Musicians; Sitting; Musical instruments; Clothing & dress; Suits...
"This performance exemplifies Klein's participation in the masculinist tradition of the dandy. The self-contained male, renouncing biological productivity (symbolized by the 'fecundity' of the paint-covered women launching themselves at...
