Architecture; Buildings; Gladiators; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Sports & recreation facilities; Educational facilities; Schools; Education; Teaching; Sports; Recreation; Games; Contests; Fighting;...
“A reconstruction of the Ludus Magnus, with the Colosseum in the background. Practice stakes (pali) are shown set up at the far end of the arena. The bottom righthand corner has been cut away to show the various rooms. Steps led up from the...
“A. The large mercantile harbour [harbor] of Kantharos; B. The main naval harbour [harbor] of Zea; C. The smaller naval harbour [harbor] of Munichia.” (caption, p.13); “Faced with certain Spartan retaliation, the Athenian assembly took the...
“Detail of the central image of the floor mosaic from the second century BC, which was found in the triclinium (dining hall) of the main atrium. This tiger’s head is from the so-called Tiger Rider, an image showing a Dionysian spirit riding on...
“The andron is roughly 5 by 5.8 metres [meters] (16 1/2 by 19 feet). The raised platform round the edge of the room is 82 centimetres [centimeters] wide, and was painted bright yellow. The platform has space for a maximum of nine couches. There...
113 maps, plus legends and information about publishers Louisville Title Company, Inc. (a real estate insurance and mortgage company), representing the city of Louisville, Kentucky and surrounding county ca. 1913, with color coding for railroads,...
Streets; Buildings; Stores & shops; Hotels; Financial facilities; Street railroads
4th Street and Main Street looking south. Multi-story brick buildings on either side of 4th Street, including a hotel, Western Union, and Lincoln Bank and Trust Company in the distance. Streetcar tracks run down Main Street.
500 block of West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, looking west at 600 block. Cars parked along street and people walking in background. Business in foreground, at 509 Main Street, is Guy W. Smith and Sons Movers, Packers, Storage, Shippers....
700 block of West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, looking east at part of 600 block. Foreground looks deserted. Handwritten on back of print: "700 Block, W. Main, South side." Title supplied by cataloger.
Architecture; Buildings; Stores & shops; Cafes; Restaurants; Fast food restaurants; Eating & drinking facilities; Commercial facilities; Mercantile facilities; Business enterprises; Business & finance; Commerce; Selling; Interiors;...
"A fine example of a thermopolium in Pompeii (I, 8, 8), with a stone counter and the jars ready to hold foods and beverages." (Caption, p. 135); "Among commercial enterprises of these types [shops, taverns and cafes], the most common...
Sculpture; Photographs; Mixed media; Allusions; Symbols; Hair; Body parts; Animals
"In the decade before her premature death in 1996, Chadwick developed an iconography which has links with the thought of Georges Bataille […] In Nostalgie de la Boue (1990) two rounded cibachrome transparencies were hung one above the other....
"This is an early example of Buren's use of stripe motifs in a public context. He has continued the practice to the present. For instance, in 1997 in Munster, Germany, his contribution to a festival of site-specific sculpture consisted of...
"This is an early example of Buren's use of stripe motifs in a public context. He has continued the practice to the present. For instance, in 1997 in Munster, Germany, his contribution to a festival of site-specific sculpture consisted of...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
A collage of a woman being photographed; a small triangular photograph in the upper left corner of the same woman in the photography studio reception room (see ULPA 1977.01.178); and a small rectangular photograph in the bottom right corner of the...
A common problem faced by most organizations in today's world is one of worker-task assignments. Assigning a large number of complex tasks to workers at various training levels can be a complicated process which has the potential to cost or to save...
A crowd of people fill the Municipal Bridge during its opening in October 1929. The bridge was later renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The bridge spans the Ohio River from Second and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, to Illinois...
Fire fighters; Industrial facilities; Fire engines; Utility poles; People; Transportation; Buildings
A crowd watches as firefighters work on a fire at Thirteenth and Main Streets in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. At the left are two steam-powered pumps. In the background a fireman in a light-colored hat and coat climbs a ladder...
