Portrait of Dora McDavid (Mrs. William Jason) Fields of Olive Hill, Kentucky. She is wearing long beaded necklace and holding a bouquet of flowers in the crook of her arm. Handwritten on back of image: Mrs. William J. Fields wife of Governor Fields...
Mamie (Mrs. Grover Lee) Love of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing pearl earrings and beaded necklace. The photograph is badly creased, painted on, and marred with discolorations from age. Article from Herald-Post attached on back of image: Friday,...
Politicians; United States. Congress. House--Speakers; United States. President; Celebrities; United States. Congress; Legislators--United States
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 24, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the fourth of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
African-American women in a beauty shop. Women in white smocks or dresses cut and style hair along the long side wall, with their customers seated in front of them. To the side is a table where another woman gives a manicure. A woman sits in the...
Multiple freight train cars on five sets of tracks leading to large industrial equipment with four smokestacks. To the right is a barge docked in the water. To the left are large piles of ore. Title: 6680 - Great Hoists, Hughlett & Brown...
Large factory room filled with locomotive cars being built. Title: 7090 - General View of the Erecting Shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa. Text on left: Keystone View Company. Copyrighted. Manufacturers. Publishers. Made in U.S.A....
Gothic Chapel in Mammoth Cave. This room within the cave system gives the illusion that it is supported by gigantic stalactites which extend from ceiling to floor. Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world and located within Mammoth Cave...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Studios; Religious facilities; Educational facilities;
The Art Studio, a small brick building. The front entrance and a covered side entrance are visible. There is ivy growing on the front of the building, and leaves on the grass in the foreground. The Art Studio was razed in 1979 to make room for...
This mosaic's "border consists of two rows of solids in perspective, each with a dot on its face, and between these a rich acanthus scroll. Except in the outer left row the solids meet in the middle. The acanthus branches spring from two...
"Psyche is dressed in a sleeved tunic. Her mantle is made of a diaphanous material. Her head, wreathed with leaves and veiled, is tilted to her right. The gesture of her left arm and hand gives the impression that she is in the act of...
"In the emblema Eros and Psyche (Soul) are represented seated on a cushioned couch. Their feet rest on a footstool on which their mantles make large heaps. Eros is barefoot. They are shown in three-quarter view turned in the opposite...
"This fragment of a wall painting was among the very first ancient artworks discovered in Herculaneum after the volcanic eruption on August 23 in 79 A.D. […] This panel was executed using a technique similar to fresco painting. The design...
"In an article published in Figueres in May 1921, Subias Galter (1897-1984) praised the gouache posters that Dali had done for the recent Santa Creu festivities. Several critics had pointed out that they and other works in the same vein owed...
From the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. "A stylistic 'sister' to the Anavysos kouros is a statue of a kore wearing a peplos, a simple, long, woolen belted garment, which gives the female figure a columnar appearance. Traces of paint are preserved...
From Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "Comparison of the head of the kouros from the Sacred Gate with the Dipylon Head leaves virtually no doubt that they were created by the same sculptor about 600 BC. He was the first Athenian marble-carver of...
