Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Education--Appalachian Region; Education--Kentucky; Kentucky--Social life and customs; Rural schools--Kentucky--History; Oneida Baptist Institute;...
665 items from Louisville native Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944), an amateur photographer who, working as an engineer for his family's plumbing business, happened to capture on film the formative years of a settlement school built by feuding...
"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...
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,...
"One of Dali's most Freudian paintings. Indeed, the elderly gentleman helping the lady in distress seems to be Freud himself, borrowed from [Max] Ernst's Pietà or Revolution by Night." (Caption); "Illumined Pleasures is one Dali's...
"The ever-present, brooding presence of Lorca [Federico García Lorca]." (Caption); "That Lorca continued to be on Dali's mind as he worked on Bacchanale is confirmed by a painting done during these months at La Pausa, The Great...
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Mixed media; Allusions; Symbols; Fantasy; Communication; Fear; Disgrace; Anxiety; Distress; Loneliness; Despair; Lust; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Body parts; Human body; Genitals; Hands; Fingers; Beaches
"The painting they refused to show in Barcelona." (Caption); "One of the most sexually provocative of the summer's paintings was Dialogue on the Beach, whose much later title, Unsatisfied Desires, clarifies its theme. The hand on the...
A woman wearing a white dress and knit sweater; a woman in long dress and bonnet, holding a stick; and a man smoking a pipe pose behind driftwood and a barrel on a beach. Title supplied by cataloger.
Autographed character portrait of performer, producer, and arranger Joseph Jefferson III as Rip Van Winkle, with long white hair and beard. Jefferson was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died April 23, 1905 in Palm Beach, Florida....
Beach scene with many people in swimming suits and other summer attire. The ocean is visible in the background, and there are palm trees and flowers nearby. A caption at the bottom reads, "Temperature today is __ [degrees]." Published by...
Bridge extending out over water; the other end of the bridge is not visible. "Cost $2,500,000; four miles long, across Pensacola Bay to Pensacola Beach" printed on front. Postmarked 1932 on verso. Published by Shepeard's; number printed...
Bridge linking the mainland and beach peninsula of Ormond Beach, Florida. This picture was taken from the east river bank near the home of Clyde Howard.
Character portrait of performer, producer, and arranger Joseph Jefferson III as the wizened Caleb Plummer, wearing a stovepipe hat and striped shirt with knotted tie. Jefferson was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died April 23, 1905...
Clyde Howard standing on the steps of the house built for his family in Ormond Beach, Florida. The house was at 244 Riverside Drive. According to Clyde's daughter, Frances, it overlooked "the Daytona Road."
Clyde Howard, wearing a suit and hat, stands next to the body of an old street car, or building that resembles a street car, on the beach at Ormond Beach, Florida. There is a sign on the building advertising shoes.
Colored (by Bonnaudtype, a new process at the time) and autographed portrait of performer, producer, and arranger Joseph Jefferson III in costume for the title role in "Caleb Plummer." He wears a stovepipe hat, striped shirt, suit jacket,...
Ed Matthews, dressed in a dark business suit, sits on a beach smoking a pipe. Handwritten on verso in Matthews Fletcher's hand: "Ed Matthews." Title supplied by cataloger.
Edward Gay Hill of Louisville, Kentucky sitting on a bench, smoking a cigarette and writing. The photograph has spots of discoloration. Attached to back: Poet In Miami Beach; All poets do not live in garrets -here is one who lives in an apartment...
