City & town life; Railroads; Street railroads; Pedestrians
View of Broadway avenue in Saint Louis, Missouri. Street with back of streetcar, horses and wagons, carriages, and pedestrians with a row of buildings on the left and wires and poles near the right. Title: (28) Street scene in the largest city of...
Snow scene inset against pine bough with pine cones. The scene shows a stream through the snow with trunks of trees visible near the stream on the left and further off in the distance on the right. Beneath the scene and the pine bough is the...
A winter mill scene painted on a painter's palette. The scene includes a water mill, mill house, bridge, and pine trees. Paintbrushes stick out of the thumb hole of the palette, which stands against a woodgrain background. "Valentine" is...
“Gladiatorial scenes from the Zliten mosaic. The upper scene shows, on the far left, a retiarius wearing a shoulder shield (galerus) and arm guard (manica). He has been disarmed and wounded by a secutor and is holding up a finger in a plea for...
Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the...
Evergreen trees are covered with snow in this winter scene on an estate in Glenview, Kentucky. A stone archway can be seen to the middle left and in the upper right, the top of the home and outbuildings is just visible.
Evergreen and deciduous trees are covered with snow in this winter scene on an estate in Glenview, Kentucky. A pathway leads to a stone archway which can be seen to the middle left and in the upper right, the top of the home and outbuildings is...
A little girl sits in a chair near a large window. The room is decorated for Christmas with a tree that has tinsel, bulbs, and lights on it. Under the tree is nature scene and next to it is a miniature village scene surrounded by a toy train. There...
African Americans--Politics and government; Local elections; Metropolitan government; Voting research
Literature on religious involvement in public affairs typically examines the
national scene, particularly public opinion and political behavior in presidential elections.
Few scholars examine religious actors in urban politics and policymaking....
Five turbaned men and two harnessed donkeys in front of a building with a metal grid, part of the "Orient" concession along the "Pike" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On the building to the left of the grid, a notice...
A man in glasses and shirt sleeves establishes 'Scene A', set in a drawing room. Another man, in jacket and bow tie, primps. This filmstrip, evidently part of a motion picture, has been identified only as "Lillian Kemble, Will Rising's wife;...
Address: 224 E. Broadway. This Egyptian Revival style structure was built as a combination Masonic temple and hotel and was to also include a large and elaborately decorated theater. The theater was never built and the building was sold after only...
Buildings; Banks; Lincoln Savings Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 136 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1973) .This street scene pictures Lincoln Savings Bank. The scene shows telephone or electricity poles, a horse-pulled carriage, and trolley tracks. Advertisement on the Herald building next door reads,...
Buildings; Restaurants; Bars; Vienna Model Bakery & Restaurant (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 133-135 S. Fourth Street (Building no longer exists.) The Vienna Bakery and Restaurant was founded by German immigrant Frank L. Erpeldinger in 1893 and operated as one of downtown Louisville's premiere dining establishments until 1927....
Production photo of a scene from Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" (staged by the University of Louisville Players at Macauley's Theatre in April 1915). The scene takes place in a drawing room, with five well-dressed man and three...
Production photo of a scene from Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" (staged by an amateur group at Macauley's Theatre in April 1915). The scene takes place on a balcony looking out to sea, with three women and four men facing one another...
An unidentified woman, wearing a long dress and holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a piece of fruit in the other, sits in a chair opposite a nervous-looking man wearing a cockeyed hat, ill-fitting jacket, and polka-dot tie, and holding...
