Livestock; Cattle; Cows; African Americans; People
Young African-American man in overalls and a hat holds the end of a rope attached to a cow as a leash. They are in a fenced area in front of a building. The cow has white markings. Text written on bottom right: '9th Duchess' S.H.D. Information on...
Book of Hours--Italy--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Italy; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
A Book of Hours was the primary text for private lay devotion in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Consisting of the cycle of prayers to be recited at the eight canonical hours or established times for prayers throughout the day, the content of...
"Wols's painted surfaces register a variety of different activities. Paint was stenciled, smeared, trickled, or thrown onto his canvases. Markings were incised using the artist's fingers or sticks. In essence, though, these images were more...
Map of Kentucky and Tennesee (plus parts of Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama,Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia), with paved roads, improved roads, graded roads, unreported or dirt roads,...
Oil, house paint, crayon, and pencil on canvas. "The classical setting and celebration of intellectual probity evoked in the title's reference to Raphael's School of Athens (c.1510-12, Vatican, Rome) are offset by markings evoking bodily...
Portraits; Men; Women; Crowds; Government officials; Mayors; Birthdays; Cakes
William B. Harrison, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1927-1933, cutting into his birthday cake, a group of women flocking to the other side of the table. The photograph has been marred with pencil markings and missing top corner. Handwritten on...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of William F. Clarke, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, Department Superintendent of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, wearing a pin-striped jacket and tie. There are small markings on the photograph.
