"In plan it follows the Etruscan pattern. [...] Moreover, in an effort to approximate a peripteral Greek temple - while maintaining the basic Etruscan plan - the architect added a series of engaged Ionic half-columns around the cella's sides...
"Marc, unlike Kandinsky, was predominantly a painter of imagery derived from the material world. But in a group of small compositions from 1914 and in sketches that he made in the notebook he carried, there was evidence of a move to...
"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 fifteenth century scribe prepared this blank leaf made of animal skin by marking 19 straight lines before writing a text. Animal skin was still being used for many books during this time, although paper was known in Europe by the fourteenth...
A hexagonal marble desk sits in the lobby of an ornate bank. A sign on the desk reads, "Information" while other signs hang above teller windows with signs like "Savings." The floor is a checkerboard pattern with the lighter...
Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Swimming pools; Swimmers; People
A platform connects to a large wooden wheel in the swimming pool at Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Children are in the water or sitting or lying down by the edge of the pool. The children's swimsuits cover their torsos and some wear...
A significant amount of effort has been put in developing tools to interpret Ground Penetrating Radar signals obtained during surveys. Currently, skilled and experienced users do most of GPR image interpretation. They use experience in deciphering...
A sitting room with delicate furniture is shown within Colonel Charles Christopher Mengel's home at 1325 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This may have been a ladies' sitting room. A portrait of a woman hangs on one wall above a curio...
A stone and brick house and its outbuildings are shown from a side view of the property. The home shows two floors of windows and a steeply pitched roof which may cover a third floor. The first floor windows on either side of a chimney have a...
A woman, identified by Jean Thomas as Blanche Preston Jones but by Jones' ancestors as Priscilla (Pricy) Preston Burgess, great-aunt of Blanche Preston Jones, holds up a quilt bearing a repeating triangle pattern in front of a log cabin (probably...
Address: 1617 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A small statue of a woman holding a large flame decorates a handrail in a hallway. The walls are decorated with two different patterns; one is a wallpaper with sketches of leaves and...
Address: 216 W. Chestnut Street (Building no longer exists). This Chestnut street building served the Salvation Army with office space, short-term living quarters and social services facilities in a single location. It resembles a Joseph &...
Address: 2227 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolley tracks on Bardstown Road pass before a series of connected brick buildings forming a zigzag pattern. Each doorway has inset columns topped with a pediment over an arched window and...
Address: 225-227 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Two dark automobiles park in front of The Sutcliffe Co. store. Under a suspended canopy the first floor offers display windows showing the store's wares. The rectangular windows of the upper...
Hotels; Ballrooms; Historic buildings; Brown Hotel (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 335 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Large chandeliers hang over the dance floor in the Crystal Ballroom of the Brown Hotel. Chairs edge the dance floor. An arched pattern is repeated in doorways, windows and the designs on the ceiling....
Address: 405 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. (Building no longer exists.) The brick road in front of the Western Union building looks slick from rain. Cars are parked at the curb and a couple of men in messenger uniforms speak with a man in...
Address: 522 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A woman peers in the window of Ben Snyder's department store. Three men are inside giving a demonstration for the Louisville Tuberculosis Association. One man stands with his shirt off and chest...
Address: 814 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Three black trucks sit in front of the building at Marret & Miller Florists. In front of each truck stands a man, probably the delivery driver. Painted on the side of each truck is "'Say it...
Address: 969 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Mature trees grow out of the parkway in front of Parr's Rest. A manicured lawn leads up to the entrance which is supported by multiple Doric columns. The brick and stone building is laid out in a...
