"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
"In her consistent use of grids Agnes Martin participated in a tradition in twentieth-century art stretching from the Cubists and Mondrian to her Minimalist contemporaries. The grid was a non-hierarchical and non-referential structure. It...
Women; Costumes--United States; Fences; American Folk Song Festival
A woman sits on a bench in a yard enclosed by a brick fence, wearing a long white dress with ruffles, a plaid bodice and hem, and the skirt spread out. She hails from Prestonsburg (Floyd County), Kentucky, but is likely photographed in Boyd County...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with an ornate...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with the words...
Address: 226 E. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A four-story brick building is shown. The building is not symmetrical, but does include a covered porch, a large bay window on the third floor, skylights and decorative brick work. The...
Address: 3005 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. On the right, the Louisville Water Tower stands 169 feet tall. The base is surrounded by Corinthian columns and the water standpipe is enclosed within a Doric column. This architectural theme is...
Apartment houses; Porches; Fences; Street railroad tracks; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This apartment building has a sign on its canopy announcing, "Chesterfield." Several Corinthian columns support the stone canopy and two pediments emphasize the Greek Revival influence of...
Address: 903 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A cobblestone street with trolley tracks runs in front of a building with a sign declaring it, "9th St. Public Warehouse." Other signs indicate a number of businesses using the building,...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Kentucky--Buildings
Basketball Gymnasium, 1924. Wide brick building with high domed windows. White band above windows. Two entrance doors with white-pillared roofs also enclosed by high, square brick pillars eventually ending in triangular pediments.
Exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Enclosed by an open, pillared wall, a sign over one segment reads, "Coffee Exportation, annual mean for the years 1899-1903 in bags of 60 kilograms; every bag represents 50000 bags; Brazil...
Five men pose on a flatboat loaded with barrels. Four of the men wield poles used as oars. The boat includes an enclosed area resembling a small house or shed. Another figure is visible on the riverbank in the background. Title supplied by...
Five men pose on a flatboat loaded with barrels. Four of the men wield poles used as oars. The boat includes an enclosed area resembling a small house or shed. Another figure is visible on the riverbank in the background. Title supplied by...
General. – The Characaeae is the only extant family of an ancient and unique group of nonvascular aquatic plants which are classified as a separate division, the Charophyta (Groves and Bullock-Webster, 1920; Zaneveld, 1940; Imahori, 1954; Bold,...
Herd of cattle in an enclosed space with part of a fence to the right. Address: Bourbon Stock Yards, Main Street at southeast corner of Johnson Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
National parks & reserves; Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Dining rooms
Hotel main dining room, Mammoth Cave Park, Kentucky. Exterior of "Hotel Lobby Main Dining Room", a white wood building with a large enclosed porch, darkened windows, flower boxes, and potted flowers.
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...
Madison (Ind.)-Milton (Ky.) Bridge across the Ohio River, dedicated December 20, 1929. The river banks are covered in a light snow. Typed note on back of image: "Enclosed is a photograph of the new Madison-Milton bridge with Milton and the...
Buildings; Factories; Industrial facilities; People; Men; Automobiles; Transportation; Ford Motor Company
Men work on the frames of cars which are set on a long, straight track. Behind the men are bins of materials and some tools. Most of the men wear caps and aprons or overalls. Windows let in light from behind and above the line. On the other side of...
