Women; Men; Spouses; Couples; Heads (Anatomy); Hairstyles; Eyes; Marriage; Relations between the sexes; Crying; Mental states; Pain
"An obsessive self-portraitist, Kahlo reveled in her distinctive features - heavy, continuous eyebrows, piercing gaze, shadowy mustache, small but ripe, cherry-red mouth, massive dark hair braided like a halo in the traditional Mexican style....
"In the year before Pollock's premature death, Krasner made powerful collages, possibly drawing on the huge semi-abstract 'paper-cuts' that the veteran French Modernist Henri Matisse was producing around this time. In one of these collages she...
Group portraits; Families; Houses; Dwellings; Porches; Buildings; People; Men; Women
Address: 2721 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This group is likely James P. Spelman (bookkeeper for E. J. O'Brien & Co.) and his family at their home. The matron of the family sits on a chair next to the home's front porch, which has...
Autographed full-length portrait of Julia Marlowe Taber as Lydia Languish in "The Rivals," circa 1896. She is seated at a table, and wears a long elegant gown. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865...
Autographed portrait of actress Effie Shannon leaning her chin on right hand, with hair pulled back, wearing Swiss-dotted blouse. Born May 13, 1867 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she appeared at Macauley's Theatre ten times between 1886 and 1910, the...
Character portrait of actress Blanche Ring wearing brimless hat with velvet ribbon. Blanche Ring came from an acting family (brother Cyril and sister Frances were also performers, as was Ring's husband, Charles Winninger). Born April 24, 1877, Ring...
Character portrait of Julia Marlowe wearing a regal gown. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the United States, and married actor Robert Taber in 1894. With her...
Character portrait of left profile of actress Stella Boniface Weaver in costume for the role of Amrah in "Ben Hur," which was performed at Macauley's Theatre five times between 1891 and 1917. She was probably part of the March 1905 cast,...
African Americans; Social workers; Journalists; African American journalists; African American social workers; Beauty contests; African American newspapers; Newspapers; Louisville Defender (Louisville, Ky.); Civil rights demonstrations; Civil...
Oral history interview with Mrs. Vivian Clark Stanley conducted on August 5, 1985 by Janet Hodgson. She discusses her career as a social worker and her life with Frank Stanley, Sr., editor, manager, and publisher of the Louisville Defender. She...
Delacoosha, an estate in Pewee Valley, was owned by Albert Burge in the late nineteenth century. Annie Fellows Johnston was visiting the Burges when she met Hattie Cochran, Rebecca Porter, and the Old Colonel, George Washington Weissinger, and was...
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. ...
Four women, two boys, and a man pose on a hill. The women include Jean Thomas (second from rear, next to young man) and Trixy Lydia Ross Bell (third from rear). The young man may be Jean's husband Bert. Title supplied by cataloger.
Full-length character portrait of Julia Marlowe as Galatea, the ivory statue created by Pygmalion in Greek myth. She wears an Empire-waist tunic and stands on a pedestal between slightly parted stage curtains. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born...
Full-length character portrait of Julia Marlowe in costume (possibly as Marie Antoinette) with curly white powdered wig, long brocade dress, and fan, facing away from the camera but looking slightly over right shoulder. Julia Marlowe was a child...
Full-length character portrait of performer and producer Mrs. W. J. Florence in costume for the role of Mrs. General Gilflory in "The Mighty Dollar," which she performed six times at Macauley's Theatre: in January and November 1876;...
Full-length character portrait of performer Gertrude Elliott in costume for the role of Ophelia in "Hamlet," which she performed at Macauley's Theatre in February 1904. She is kneeling amid strewn flowers, wearing a white robe, with her...
Full-length character portrait of performer Lillian Russell in costume for the title role in the opera "Pepita," composed by her second husband, Edward Solomon. She is standing in a corner, wearing a tam, black corset-style top, and white...
Full-length character portrait of right profile of actress Effie Shannon. She stands holding onto the stage curtain, wearing a long evening gown with overlay and train. Born May 13, 1867 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she appeared at Macauley's...
Full-length photogravure of left profile of Julia Marlowe, wearing a long dress and hat with feathers. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the United States, and...
Grace Rardin Doherty is the wife of Henry L. Doherty and the sister of Hugh Rardin, Mabel Crawford Rardin's husband, and Jake Rardin, Mrs. Jake Rardin's husband. Mrs. Dolly Gann is the sister of Vice President Charles Curtis, who served during the...
