Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Breviaries--England--lllustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a book used for daily prayers by a monk or other person living in a religious community, probably in England. The book was written in the thirteenth century on animal skin since paper was not used at that time. The text is from an...
African Americans; Children; Group portraits; Schools; People
Location: Thirteenth and Liberty Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Hundreds of African American school children and their teachers pose for a portrait in front of their school. This may be Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elementary School at 1228 W. Liberty...
Fire fighters; Industrial facilities; Fire engines; Utility poles; People; Transportation; Buildings
A crowd watches as firefighters work on a fire at Thirteenth and Main Streets in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. At the left are two steam-powered pumps. In the background a fireman in a light-colored hat and coat climbs a ladder...
The Illinois Central Railroad roundhouse, located on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Oak Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, has numerous railroad tracks leading to and from a semi-circular building. Railroad cars and tanks sit on the tracks and...
Three-story brick building with large windows on the second floor and small windows on the third at the corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor business is a drugstore with a display of Sovereign Cigarettes in the...
Two-story wooden building with large windows and a large awning at the corner of Thirteenth and Delaware (now Garland), Louisville, Kentucky. Signs painted on the side of the building for [Feh...ach] Bros. Grocery & Saloon as well as for Old...
Two-story wooden building with large windows and a large awning at the corner of Thirteenth and Delaware (now Garland), Louisville, Kentucky. Signs painted on the side of the building for [Feh...ach] Bros. Grocery & Saloon as well as for Old...
Buildings; Advertisements; Brick wall signs; Street railroad tracks
Two-story wooden building at the corner of Thirteenth and Maple, Louisville, Kentucky. Business on ground floor appears to be a cafe; advertisement for Senn & Ackerman lager outside. Building appears to be three or four buildings down from a...
Buildings; Advertisements; Water pumps; Land subdivision
Appears to be a back lot or empty lot at southeast corner of Thirteenth and Grayson (now Cedar) Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Advertisements in the back for Apple Chewing Tobacco as well as Dolly Bread. Appears to be a great deal of hay and/or...
Two-story wooden building at the corner of Thirteenth and Grayson (now Cedar), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor appears to be shut up with dark doors and dark windows; may have been a bar, as there is a poster for Frank Fehr's beer. A building...
This work seeks to fill a gap in the academic literature concerning the study of the Ilkhanid Mongols of the Middle East during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE using Armenian, Persian, Arabic, and Syriac primary sources in English...
Teachers and students, Thirteenth Street School (later Whittier School), 13th and Maple Streets, Louisville, Kentucky, 1893. A young woman stands at the right as four rows of children sit in front of a light brick wall. The girls wear dresses and...
