Drawings; Graphite drawings; Pencil works; Seascape drawings; Seascapes; Seas; Oceans; Water; Bodies of water
"Born in Riga in 1938, and transplanted to America in 1949, Celmins has only recently become well known. Her strangely detached, unlocated subjects suggest a radical retreat from the concerns of modern life. Perhaps they relate to her early...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Maps; Recycling; Conservation of natural resources; Economics; Economic & political systems; Political issues; Politics & government
"It was not until the end of the 1970s, in the work of a new generation of sculptors including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor, and Bill Woodrow, that the sculptural object as such, in relation to human or urban themes, reassumed...
"The atom bomb was good news for Dali's commercial art." (Caption); "The New York Times reviewer of the Sentimental Colloquy had said correctly that Dali's 'Surrealist' paintings were now executed according to a mere formula. That...
Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Memorial works; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Bas-reliefs; Portraits; Families; Men; Women; Couples; Spouses; Fathers; Mothers; Children; Boys; Youth; Slaves; Servants; Women domestics; Working class;...
"The father (pater in the epitaph) was the libertus of Quintus Servilius (Q.L.) and took his patron’s name upon manumission (gaining freedom). His wife (uxor) was formerly a slave of a woman named Sempronia. She too assumed her patron’s...
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
A cave entrance on the side of a hill, possibly to Sinking Spring on the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born (see http://www.nps.gov/archive/abli/adhi/adhip3.htm). Also see ULPA 1982.01.723.p for a similar image of the cave entrance, and images...
A cave entrance on the side of a hill, possibly to Sinking Spring on the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born (see http://www.nps.gov/archive/abli/adhi/adhip3.htm). See ULPA 1982.01.819.p for a similar image of the cave entrance, and images ULPA...
A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
A native of Henry County, Kentucky, William S. Pryor was born near New Castle in 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in New Castle until he was elected circuit court judge in 1866. In 1871, he was appointed to a vacancy on the...
A shy young boy, Marvin Norton Burns, son of James and Martha Burns. Marvin was born August 13, 1910, and named after Dr. J. B. Marvin of Louisville, a generous benefactor of Oneida Baptist Institute. Young Marvin died at the age of eighteen months.
A small dirt road runs between fields. A barn can be seen in the distance and a horse-drawn carriage is in the lower right corner. This may be same carriage as in image ULPA 1982.01.726.p and it may be on the farm where Abraham Lincoln was born....
Actor and female impersonator Julian Eltinge was born William Dalton in Newtonville, Massachusetts on May 14, 1883 and died in New York City on March 7, 1941. Eltinge performed at Macauley's Theatre in George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris Minstrels...
Portraits; Theatrical posters; Actors; Actresses; Men; Women
Actor, playwright, and manager Nathan Salsbury (also known as Nate or N. Salsbury) was born in Freeport, Illinois on February 28, 1846 and died December 24, 1902 in Long Branch, New Jersey. In 1875 he organized the musical comedy troupe Salsbury's...
Actress Emily Rigl was born in the Netherlands and began performing in musicals and burlesques in the United States by the mid-1860s. American actor Charles Fisher was born in 1816 and died in 1891. In this full-length portrait, on the set of...
Actress Margaret Dale was born March 6, 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died March 23, 1972, in New York City. In this portrait of her as a young woman, she wears what appears to be a wedding dress, and clasps a bouquet of flowers. Her...
Adolphus E. Richards was born in Virginia in 1844. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army, where he rose to the rank of major before his twenty-first birthday. At the war's end, he returned to school,...
