Portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat festooned with flowers and a dress with a crocheted outer layer and rope tie. Inscription on print: [illegible]. Location of photo studio: New York (N.Y.). Title supplied by cataloger.
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: Superior Sugar Louisville, Ky.; City of Pensacola and adjacent tracts; [O?].W. Thomas & Co. Golden; outer edges of Thomas & Co. hexagonal logo.
Looking north on Dixie Highway. A paved street with dirt shoulders and a railroad track running parallel on the left. Houses are in the distance. Accompanying information reads, ""Southwestern outfall would cross at this point. Path...
Forts & fortifications; Historic sites; Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.); Buildings
Exterior view of the Alamo fort from across a road. Front wall and part of the side are visible. A star is at the top of the front wall. Title: 16578 'The Alamo' - Texas Cradle of Liberty (Dating from 1744), San Antonio. Text on left: Keystone View...
Railroad tracks; Electric railroads; Railroads; Canals
Four sets of railroad tracks with fields on either side. Electric poles and lines run parallel to the tracks. A train is on the left set of tracks with a person sitting on the top of one of the cars. A second train is on one of the middle sets of...
Piers & wharves; Boats; Monuments & memorials; Parks; Bridges; Field Museum of Natural History; Automobiles; Buses; Beaches; Greenhouses; University of Chicago--Buildings
Souvenir folder of postcards from Chicago, Illinois. Includes images from the various parks in Chicago: the Grant Monument and Lincoln Monument in Lincoln Park; pedestrians and drivers by the lake shore at Lincoln Park; the Outer Harbor and...
Navy Pier on Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois. The pier has a red bridge or stone entranceway with a sign reading "Navy Pier" at the top. There are two boats alongside the pier and a bus or trolley approaches the entrance. Text printed on...
General Ulysses S. Grant's tomb, a large stone structure with columns. It is set on a small hill, with steps leading up to the building. There are people near the monument; one person is on a bicycle. Text printed on verso reads, "Grant's...
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...
"Another stylistic shift in Picasso's work that was influenced by Cubism has been called Surrealism. This term literally means 'above real' and denotes a truer reality than that of the visible world. In the Girl before a Mirror of 1932,...
"Another stylistic shift in Picasso's work that was influenced by Cubism has been called Surrealism. This term literally means 'above real' and denotes a truer reality than that of the visible world. In the Girl before a Mirror of 1932,...
Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Military officers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Gestures; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Military uniforms;...
"This armored statue was discovered in the ancient city of Gabii. […] The portrait of Trajan, set on a modern neck, did not belong to the statue; it was furnished in 1793 by Vincenzo Pacetti, who produced this reconstituted piece for the...
"The most representative surviving part of the Forum is a stretch of the south wall containing what are known as the 'Colonnacce': two surviving columns from the Corinthian colonnade erected around the outer wall of the square, an imitation...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Abstract sculpture; Abstract works
"In formal terms, this sculpture manages to harmonize the claims of an aspiring, organic element within and the protective, enveloping characteristics of an outer casing. This is achieved via Moore's signature 'holes'. (Caption, p.68);...
