200 block of south 4th Street on the west side. View of a row of multi-story buildings, including the Crutcher & Starks Building, site of the Jefferson Dry Goods Company. Other businesses include the Olshine Company, a shoe store, and a...
Streets; Buildings; Clubs; Eating & drinking facilities; Construction
200 block of West Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, on the east side toward 2nd Street. View down a cobblestone street with streetcar tracks. Buildings are on either side of the street. At the southwest corner is a small construction shed...
200 block of West Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard, on the north side. Row of stone buildings with signs for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and a drug store selling candy and cigars. Cars are parked along the curb.
400 block of West Breckinridge Street on the north side looking west. At the corner is a long-two story brick building with a tailors and cleaners business on the ground floor. There are signs on the sidewalk for the shop and for Browns-Oyl oil...
Streets; Buildings; Stores & shops; Home furnishings stores
448 south 4th Street. Front view of John C. Lewis & Company, a multi-story brick building. Signs advertise drapery, curtains, carpets, and similar items.
600 block of south 4th Street looking north. A dump truck filled with bags in front of Hubbuch Brothers and Wellendorff store. An African American man stands with a shovel behind a pile of gravel. Next to the store is a wood fence with painted...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Mixed media; Graffiti; Poetry; Inscriptions; Music; Jazz; Portraits; Group portraits; Men; Musicians; Jazz musicians; Composers; Celebrities; People associated with entertainment & sports; Clothing & dress;...
"Although savvy enough to take [Robert] Rauschenberg and [Jasper] Johns as models, as well as to avoid the subways, Basquiat teamed up with a fellow dropout, Al Diaz, and headed for SoHo, where the art world soon knew the pair through their...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
"Here the god is shown standing, naked, a coat thrown over his left shoulder. His left arm is raised and perhaps at one time leaned on a long scepter. The thunderbolt in his right hand and the eagle at his feet are other attributes of this...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
"Such barely recognizable human images were the outcome of a dialogue with materials. Layers of thick paste were applied to an absorbent sheet of rag paper laid on a canvas, with a layer of colored paste and varnish finally added to the...
Sculpture; Diptychs; Commemorations; Portraits; Men; Consuls; Government officials; Politicians; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Scepters; Ceremonial objects; Symbols; Monograms; Medallions...
"The Louvre diptych was produced in 506 A.D., on the occasion of the consulate of Areobindus. […] An exceptionally high number of diptychs and panels in his name remain: two complete diptychs and five individual panels. […] The Areobindus...
Stores & shops; Show windows; Window displays; Signs (Notices); Bananas; Buildings; People
A banana stand located in front of Ben Snyder's at 514-530 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A boy eating a banana stands facing the camera as a woman pays one of the clerks. Another woman stands next to a clerk putting a bunch of bananas...
Street railroads; Louisville Railway Company; Exhibitions; Fairs; Transportation
A booth at the Kentucky State Fair displays information about the Louisville Railway Co., with photos of trolleys under signs reading, "Have you ridden on these cars?" and "Ask Father about these cars." A three-dimensional...
A crowd of people in the stands at the Jefferson County Armory. Hanging signs advertise upcoming performances: The Arctic Girls and the Georgia Wildcats and All-Star Hill-Billie Show. Title supplied by cataloger.
A crowd of people lines the sidewalk in Jeffersonville, Indiana during the opening of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. A police officer stands in the middle of the street at the beginning of the bridge....
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Exhibitions; People
A crowd of people stand around a display in one of the pavilions at Fontaine Ferry Park. The display looks like part of a car with a steering wheel and gauges. A large banner reads, "Gigantic display of daylight fire works, Labor Day, Monday,...
Government facilities; City & town halls; Buildings; Men; Children; Boys; Carts & wagons; Horses
A dark-clad crowd of almost two dozen men and three small boys gather in front of Uniontown, Kentucky's City Hall, a deep, narrow, two-story brick building which has an ornamental roof, large second floor windows, and a wood framed canopy over the...
