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,...
Leather-bound guest book dating from 1948 to 2011, featuring signatures of attendees of Louisville Orchestra premieres; Grawemeyer Composition winners; and official guests of the School of Music.
"Autograph drawing. Schematic pen sketch for a figure on the Sistine Chapel Vault or for one of the Popes. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited by P. Barocchi, page 35)." (caption,...
"Autograph drawing. Study in pencil and pen for a cornice (at the left above) and for various movements of the 'Nudes' on the Sistine Chapel Vault. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. 75 F. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited...
"The Canterbury Tales", prologue, opening page, in "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," Kelmscott Press, 1896, woodcut illustration by Burne-Jones, border decorations and initials by William Morris.
A beech tree with letters carved into the bark of the trunk apparently commemorating an event or relationship. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the album page. Title supplied by cataloger.
A blooming tree hangs over a walkway during the month of May on the grounds of photographer Kate Matthews' family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley Kentucky. Handwritten below the picture by Kate Matthews: "The Fringe Tree". Also...
Book of Hours--France--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; 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...
A collie stands on grass along the shore of Lake Michigan looking out at a sailing ship. The print is tinted and the ship and gulls flying above it appear to be elements that were added to the image by hand. Handwritten on album page by...
Men; Women; Signs (Notices); Log cabins; American Folk Song Festival
A copy photograph of the page of an album containing a photograph of Jean Thomas (front, in tam) with Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left), Ruth Ogden (at right), and an unidentified man on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo...
A driveway winds among trees on a rural estate, believed to be Tuliphurst in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also on the album page in an unidentified handwriting is...
A ewe stands near two large planters on the terrace at photographer Kate Matthews' family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley Kentucky. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on album page by...
A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
Girls; Windows; Casement windows; Stone buildings; Dwellings; Houses
A girl looks out an open casement window at Twigmore, an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky owned by photographer Kate Matthews' niece, Lillian Fletcher. Matthews' signature is on lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on the album page by...
A large decorative iron gate between two large stone columns. There is a light fixture one top of each column. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "Ross, gateway". Presumably it is the entrance to the home of Herbert...
A large tree casts shadows on the lawn of the photographer Kate Matthews' family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Also handwritten on album page by Kate...
A large wrought iron gate is framed by two brick columns at the entrance to Tuliphurst, an historic home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky (NHRP Bldg. #89001979). Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "'Tuliphurst' gateway"....
A lone tree growing on a hill is bent toward the water of Lake Michigan. Handwritten on album page in photographer Kate Matthews' hand: "Wind Blown". Inscribed on first and second pages of album: "Illustrations, by Kate Seston...
A man identified in other Kate Matthews photographs as Ted plays a violin as he stands facing the camera next to the pipe organ in Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church in Oldham County, Kentucky. There is a music stand in front of him and a music book...
