Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Actor Victor Mature stands inside a building in front of a large round picture of himself with text on it. Part of the text includes his name. A second man stands to the left of the image.
African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
"The sacks used in these canvases often displayed stenciled letters relating to their commercial origins. This suggests some link with the German prewar Dadaist, Kurt Schwitters who made collages from printed waste paper. However, Burri,...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Rube Kroh or Floyd Myron Kroh (1886-1944). Color portrait of Floyd Kroh. A bear is in the top left corner and 'Cubs' is in the top right corner. The team is the Chicago Cubs. Verso: Floyd M. Kroh. Floyd Kroh, the southpaw pitcher whom the...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)
Jack Barry (1887-1961). Color portrait of John J. Barry with the Philadelphia Athletics. An elephant is in the top left corner. 'Athletics' is in the top right corner. Verso: John J. Barry. John J. Barry, the fast young shortstop of the...
Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation; Visions in literature
Essential to an understanding of William Blake is the knowledge of his intense identification with the messianic "perfect prophet," described by the Old Testament prophets, St. John, and Milton, and of the thematic unity which this...
A quarter of a century ago, Abraham Epworth Rounds, aged forty-five, came shambling out of mountainous Eastern Tennessee to one of our Kentucky cities. He was intent on making a living in easier fashion than scratching it from the lean soil of the...
African Americans--Education (Elementary); African Americans--Education (Higher); National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Fisk University; Howard University; African Americans; Race relations; Civil rights; African...
Oral history interview conducted with Ruth Bryant on July 24, 1977 by Kenneth L. Chumbley. Mrs. Bryant, a community activist, primarily discusses her involvement in community organizing and political activism during the 1960’s in Louisville. ...
"While producing works like this, Turrell also embarked on a major project in 1972 which involved purchasing, and subsequently modifying, an extinct volcanic crater located in northern Arizona. This 'Roden Crater' project has connections with...
"Prince's early 'appropriations' from advertising, of which this is an example, have interesting connections with his later practice. After 1985 Prince started to employ verbal jokes in his works. They were often silkscreened as texts across...
Galvanized steel and concrete. "Deacon's organically related forms often derive from sources in the Bible, poetry, fairy stories, and figures of speech. In the two versions of the laminated wood sculpture For Those Who Have Ears (1982-3), for...
"Artaud's late drawings have been a comparatively recent discovery. His poetry and writings on the theatre were better known previously. In the latter respect, his notions of catharsis had a decisive impact on the Body Art of the 1970s. After...
In studying the culture of any people we learn that no group has been absolutely independent of influences from other people. No man indeed can say that he has attained anything of value absolutely by himself; an individual must give credit to the...
Floods; Western Union Telegraph Company; Hotels; Disaster relief; People; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville
Address: 612 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. In 1937, after a January of intense rainfall, the Ohio River Valley flooded. The 1937 flood was one of Louisville's greatest natural disasters. This photo shows police and Kentucky State Health...
Sculpture; Men; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Nudes; Genitals; Muscles; Clothing & dress; Capes (Clothing); Headbands (Headgear); Headgear; Victories; Tree stumps; Trees; Archaeological sites; Ruins; Expedition...
Supported by two workers from Mykonos. “Island marble. Found in the building known conventionally as the House of the Diadoumenos, on Delos, in 1894. The hands are missing. The tip of the nose is restored. The youth is depicted nude, frontally,...
The thesis deals with the political career of John Marshall Harlan prior to his appointment in 1877 as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Throughout the majority of those twenty-three active years in Kentucky politics, Harlan...
When Howard Manning wakes from a fainting spell to find himself hospitalized with a serious but correctable weakness in his heart, his refusal of treatment intimates a death wish that provokes consternation among the skilled medical professionals...
Robert Armstrong Cochran was born in 1822, on French Creek, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He acquired his education in that part of Western Pennsylvania and at the...
Thomas W. Bullitt was born at Oxmoor in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1838, a representative of one of Kentucky's oldest and most distinguished families. Raised on the family estate, he attended Centre College, graduating in 1858. He then went to...
