113 maps, plus legends and information about publishers Louisville Title Company, Inc. (a real estate insurance and mortgage company), representing the city of Louisville, Kentucky and surrounding county ca. 1913, with color coding for railroads,...
1929 Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, in Winner's Circle draped with garland of roses, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Owner - (of horse) H.P. Gardner, Trainer - Clyde Van Dusen, Jockey - Linus McAfee. A group of men, including two...
400 block of 3rd Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Kitchen Craft Co. of Kentucky and Third Street Liquors (442 S. Third Street) are visible, as are cars parked along either side of street and taller buildings. Title supplied by cataloger.
500 block of West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, looking west at 600 block. Cars parked along street and people walking in background. Business in foreground, at 509 Main Street, is Guy W. Smith and Sons Movers, Packers, Storage, Shippers....
Streets; Buildings; Stores & shops; Commercial facilities; Restaurants; Construction
600 block of south 4th Street, with a view of businesses in a two-story brick building with advertisements painted on the wall. The stores are Younger Furs and Fred Haupt Company, with a chop suey restaurant on the second level. Just past the...
700 block of West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, looking east at part of 600 block. Foreground looks deserted. Handwritten on back of print: "700 Block, W. Main, South side." Title supplied by cataloger.
900 block of Swan Street. Multiple views of an industrial site, houses, and wood sheds or outbuildings near a rocky creek bed at Swan Street. A bridge passes over the sewage or water runoff site.Title supplied by cataloger.
Sculpture; Heads (Anatomy); Portraits; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Men; Hairstyles; Crowns; Headdresses; Headgear; Leaves; Symbols
"[…] this portrait probably came from the forum's Augusteum (a shrine dedicated to the imperial family). […] In this portrait, the hair is combed forward, with short bangs over the forehead, formed by straight and regularly laid locks that...
"Ad Reinhardt's satirical cartoons, which contrasted sharply with his practice as a painter, dated back to the 1930s and 1940s. His strong Communist sympathies during that period had informed a series of cartoons for left-wing journals. By the...
"Aunt" Arky Brewer sits outside her cabin. "Aunt" Arky was married to George Brewer, a Civil War veteran and preacher, who ran a steam mill on the Brewer Branch. Handwritten on bottom border: 515. Title supplied by cataloger.
Baseball; People associated with entertainment & sports; Men; Louisville Colonels (Baseball team)
"Colonel" William F. Knebelkamp was the president of the Louisville Baseball Co., which owned the Louisville Colonels baseball team. He wears a "Baseball Boosters" ribbon on his lapel, and holds a floral wreath. Title supplied...
"Dali's variation on Paolo Uccello's work of the same title, this is probably his most sacrilegious painting." (Caption); The Profanation of the Host […] is one of Dali's most sacrilegious paintings (although later he tried to exonerate...
"Fate of the Beasts (1913), perhaps also related to the prevailing apprehensions of war, portrays a total, inescapable catastrophe. Hard, arrowlike diagonals intersect to shoot across the canvas. Trees bleed and descend in a cosmic cataclysm....
Collages; Commercialism; Advertisements; Advertising; Lust; Sex; Genitals; Body parts; Diagrams; Drawings; Men; Women; Passengers; People associated with transportation; People associated with entertainment & sports; Strong men; Muscles;...
"In this collage elements such as Charles Atlas and the diagrammatized penis were pasted over a female 'art' pinup (the 'Evadne in Green Dimension' of the work's title), as though allegorizing the artist's arousal." (Caption, p.96);...
