Sculpture; Figurines; Human body; Heads (Anatomy); Animals; Lions
"One of the earliest sculptures discovered to date is an extraordinary ivory statuette, which may be as old as 30,000 BCE, from a cave at Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany. Carved out of mammoth ivory and nearly a foot tall - a truly huge image...
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,...
Large rock walls with a gap between. Title: Annetta's Dome at Mammoth Cave. Text on bottom: Views of Mammoth Cave and Vicinity. Text on top: 'These are pronounced the very best specimens of subterranean photography yet produced.' - Scientific...
Born in 1819 in Shelby County, Kentucky, Bland Ballard attended Hanover College and the Law Department of Transylvania University where he received an L.L.B in 1846. He read law under James T. Morehead. In 1846, he married Sarah McDowell, daughter...
Caves; Rock formations; Historic sites; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
A man sits atop a large rock formation, with a boarded up entrance to a cave below. Kentucky explorer and early settler Daniel Boone spent the winter of 1769-1770 in a cave on the Shawnee River in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Cemeteries; Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.); Clock towers; Street railroad tracks
Clock tower and gate at Broadway Entrance (actually accessed from Baxter Avenue) to Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. The Corinthian-style building with clock tower was completed in 1892. Title supplied by cataloger.
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 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...
Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.); Cemeteries; Clock towers; Buildings
The entryway to Cave Hill Cemetery is located at Baxter Avenue and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. The larger part of the gate includes a house and a clock tower topped with a statue of an angel in the Victorian Romanticism style. The gate allows...
Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.); Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries
A mausoleum and monuments in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. The mausoleum was designed by Harrison Granite Company of New York for whiskey distiller Paul Jones. Title supplied by cataloger.
Cave Hill Cemetery (Louisville, Ky.); Cemeteries; Clock towers; Buildings; Horses; Men
Entrance to Cave Hill Cemetery at the intersection of Baxter Avenue, Cherokee Road, and East Broadway in Louisville, Ky. The Corinthian style entry includes a 2000 pound bell and a clock tower which were added in 1892. Two men and a horse stand at...
Few previous studies have compared microbial communities in subterranean and surface environments. Chemical analyses used to characterize the surface and cave microbial environments indicated limited exchange between surface and subsurface waters....
Charles William Buck was born in Vicksburg, Miss., in 1849. He later moved to his large family estate in Woodford County, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar. He practiced law, farmed and was a member of the Woodford County magisterial court. He...
Clarence Dallam was born in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1863. He attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., from 1881 to 1884, before entering the University of Virginia. After graduation, he was admitted to the University of Virginia law...
A large sandstone rock sits in the yard of the Mammoth Cave Hotel in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The hotel, which sits within the boundaries of the Mammoth Cave National Park, was built by John Croghan in 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1916. The rock...
Small boat on a river with a woods and what appears to be a cave opening in the background. There is a group of about five people in the boat. Published by Hatfield Brothers & Owsley, White Mills, Kentucky, around the turn of the 20th century....
A man, suitably dressed for caving in tall black boots, walks through Deserted Chamber, a geological feature in Mammoth Cave. The Deserted Chamber is a room 100 feet in length within the cave system. Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the...
My recent work juxtaposes dualities such as natural/artificial, macro/micro, instantaneous/changing, and conscious/unconscious. As a process oriented artist, I enjoy creating tactile, illusionistic surfaces by building translucent layers through...
