Installation: used sump oil, steel; "The oil uncannily mirrors the ceiling of the gallery, leaving the spectator, figuratively speaking, in mid-air. Although currently installed in the Saatchi Gallery, the work was originally located in Matt's...
Buildings; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Louisville City Hospital; Amphitheaters
Amphitheater at Louisville City Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky. Caption below: "The Amphitheater." Stadium seating on collapsible round backless seats curves around the pit below, where there is a standing chalkboard and four wood chairs....
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; B. F. Keith Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Original address: 506 W. Walnut Street (Building demolished in 1952). The lobby of the B. F. Keith Theatre (a.k.a. National Theatre) had a domed and decorated ceiling with pendant chandeliers. Handwritten on front: Caufield & Shook Photo....
Ballroom at the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky. It is a curved room with three high, curtained windows shown, a piano, and wooden chairs all along the wall. The parquet floor is empty. Two crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling, which...
A band takes center stage at the Kentucky State Fair Music Festival. The group stands in concentric semi-circles facing a band director on a wooden stand. A crowd watches from raised bleachers as numerous lights and flags hang from the ceiling...
A woman stands at a microphone accompanied by a woman on the piano and men on the guitar, bass, and drums. The ceiling above them is decorated with paper bells. One of the songbooks on the piano is for I'm Going to Love That Guy Like He's Never...
A hexagonal marble desk sits in the lobby of an ornate bank. A sign on the desk reads, "Information" while other signs hang above teller windows with signs like "Savings." The floor is a checkerboard pattern with the lighter...
A group of adults sit around a table set for a luncheon or dinner. They appear to be in a meeting room in a finished basement because a map and other items are tacked on one wall, the electric outlets are in the ceiling, and the ceiling is...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Bedrooms
Bedroom, The Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky. Room with white walls; two windows with inner drapes drawn, outer drapes gathered. Two dark twin beds with headboard lights and light ticker stripe bedding. Bureau; mirror; small desk with white cloth...
Interior of Benedict's Restaurant, 554 S. 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Chandeliers hang from the ceiling; counter and candy cases are visible in foreground; small round tables are in foreground at left, with long rectangular tables at rear....
Stores & shops; Department stores; Furniture; Lighting
Bensinger Outfitting Co. department store advertises a washing machine for $49.50. Several dressers and seating arrangements show off the furniture for sale. A balcony surrounds the main room. Sprinklers can be seen lined up along the ceiling...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Laboratories; Pipes (Conduits); Brigman Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Laboratory in Brigman Hall with various pieces of engineering laboratory equipment. Pipes run along the ceiling. This image dates to the period when the Speed Scientific School (now the J.B. Speed School of Engineering) was housed in Brigman Hall....
Hotels; Ballrooms; Historic buildings; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 335 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Large chandeliers hang over the dance floor in the Crystal Ballroom of the Brown Hotel. Chairs edge the dance floor. An arched pattern is repeated in doorways, windows and the designs on the ceiling....
Hotels; Interiors; Dining rooms; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Located at the northeast corner of Fourth Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky, the Brown Hotel dining room shows the opulence of the hotel. Rows of tables with white tablecloths line the room. Each table has two to four wood chairs. The...
Hotels; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.); Dining rooms; Eating & drinking; Tables; Tableware
Address: 335 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. The Brown Hotel's dining room is shown with a long table set. Garland hangs from the ceiling and pin bows and flowers are on the table. Each place setting includes a large and small plate, three...
Government facilities; Buildings; Rotundas; Paintings; Allegorical paintings
Large circle, painted in the center, with decorative elements forming a large border. It is the interior domed ceiling of the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. The fresco-style painting is called The Apotheosis of Washington. Descriptive information on...
A woman sitting on a chair inside a cabin in Harlan County, Kentucky. Behind her are three beds with quilts, shelves on the wall with folded linens, and petticoats hanging from the ceiling.
Cafeterias; Canopies; Murals; Tables; University of Louisville--Presidents; College presidents;
Dining tables line the walls of a room with canopies on the ceiling. The walls are painted with landscape murals. A sign reading "Our Hero" hangs over a chair on the back wall. There are people sitting at the two tables in the back;...
