600 block of south 4th Street looking north. A dump truck filled with bags in front of Hubbuch Brothers and Wellendorff store. An African American man stands with a shovel behind a pile of gravel. Next to the store is a wood fence with painted...
Construction equipment; Men; Construction workers; African Americans; Buildings; Industrial facilities; Streams; Sewerage; Canals
900 block Swan Street looking west. A group of African-American men sit and stand on a bridge at the 900 block of Swan Street near a bulldozer and other construction machinery. A wooden industrial building next to the bridge has stacks of barrels...
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,...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works; Collages; Colors; Men; Musicians; Entertainers; Monks; People associated with religion; People associated with entertainment & sports; Music ensembles; Performances; Music; Guitars;...
"Synthetic Cubism marked a return to bright color. Whereas Analytic Cubism fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms, Synthetic Cubism arranged flat shapes of color to form objects. Picasso's Three Musicians - a clarinetist on the left,...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
"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...
"Whilst implicitly acknowledging the Surrealism of [Joseph] Cornell, Arman possibly evokes [Roland] Barthes's mournful vision of commodified toys as expressed in the latter's book Mythologies (1957). Barthes wrote that in the consumerist era,...
A car labeled "World's Fair Auto Transit Co." filled with riders passes in front of two horse sculptures at the edge of the "Grand Canal" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. The Palace of Education and Social Economy is...
Schools; Religious facilities; Classrooms; Children; African Americans
A child stands at the front of the room with one hand risen holding a white object. Rows of other African American children sit with various musical instruments including jugs, drums, and glasses partially filled with water. An adult sits playing...
Vehicles; Trucks; Canada Dry Corporation; Beverage industry
A front and side view of a Spur delivery truck for Canada Dry. The truck is filled with cases of Spur bottles. Address: 735 South 8th Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
A group of men standing around a row of cars filled with coal at St. Bernard Coal Company in Christian County, Kentucky. The mine face or entrance is in the background.
A k-term quasi-progression of diameter d is a sequence {Xl,... ,xk} for which there exists a positive integer l such that l < Xi-Xi-1 < l+d, for all i = 2, ... ,k. Quasi-progressions may be thought of as arithmetic progressions with a certain...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Airships; Men
A man leans his arms on a rail in a large, beamed, sunlit room where there are two partially filled balloons and a gas bag for a dirigible. Stamped on lower left corner: 10968.
Men; Construction workers; Construction; Maintenance & repair; Sewerage; Woodcutting
A man saws a piece of wood on top of a sewer pipe with other workers nearby. The site is filled with wood and other materials. Title supplied by cataloger.
A man stands amidst rows and rows of bourbon barrels. He wears overalls and a cap and is working with a mallet and a metal device on top of one of the barrels. The barrel tops have sequential numbers and some text printed on them. The text reads,...
A mining tipple coming down the mountainside connects to a platform with a cart that can be filled and then rolled to the other end of the platform and dumped into a train car. A man stands on the platform with the cart, and railroad tracks are in...
