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“[…] Washington is placed in an elaborate setting equal to his importance. In the Grand Manner tradition of portraiture, his is before a velvet drapery swag and a classical column, both alluding to his high rank, and surrounded by the...
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“A reconstruction of the Agora in about 400 BC, seen from the east. […] In the bottom left hand corner is the Mint, with the south-east fountain house behind. Next to this is the South Stoa. The Pnyx assembly platform is above the stoa to the...
“Moreau has rendered Salome as an enchantress, the archetypal femme fatale who seduces Herod into performing her will. Moreau was very careful to avoid endowing the figure of Herod with any magisterial dignity but rather shows him as an old man,...
“The building, dating to the late Augustan period, presented the appearance of a two-storied cube. The ground floor is occupied by a wide hypostyle hall (13.5 x 15.7 m or 44 x 51.5 ft.) with four columns at its center, which was used for public...
“The Erechtheum seen from the west, as it might have appeared at the beginning of the fourth century BC. A sacrificial procession with a lamb for the sacrifice is approaching the sanctuary of Athena Polias.” (p.77); "[...] in 420 BC the...
“The Panathenaic procession passing through the Propylaea, the gate of the Acropolis. The ceremonial boat, on which the new tunic (peplos) for Athena may have been hoisted as a sail, would probably have been parked alongside the Clepsydra...
“This building, some 17 metres [meters] (56 feet) wide and 40 metres [meters] (131 feet) long, is divided along its length by a corridor with five square cells on the right and three on the left. The corridor leads through to a walled courtyard...
1100 block of Eastern Parkway east of the Beargrass Creek bridge looking west towards Goss Avenue. View of the road from a wide grassy median. A culvert is to the right by the street and paths are to the left.
1200 block of Eastern Parkway looking west towards Goss Avenue from the Beargrass Creek bridge. Wide road approaching a bridge with a lumber company sign on the right side of the street.
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Side view of the grandstand crowd, most of them standing, with the track to the right. A row of men with billy clubs polices the crowd from the other side of the...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Side view of the grandstand crowd, most of them standing, with the track to the right. A row of men with billy clubs polices the crowd from the other side of the...
2600 block of Grinstead Drive looking east. Multiple perspectives of the street. Houses are on the left side of the road and trees are on the right. A dirt road crosses with Grinstead.
2600 block of Peterson Avenue near Grinstead Drive looking east. A view down the street with men on the left digging trenches near a row of long pipes. A wooden pedestrian bridge is on the right and a traffic light hangs in the distance.
3rd Street at Lansing Avenue looking north. Portion of a street dug up and covered with dirt and sewer and construction materials. Houses are to the left and a row of billboards are to the right. Notes: Whitney-Berry.
3rd Street at Young Street looking north. Deep hole in the middle of a street with lumber nearby. Houses are to the left and a store is to the right. A portion of Young Street ran between south 1st Street and 3rd Street north of Adair Street....
3rd Street at Young Street looking north. Trench supported by wood beams for sewer pipes with houses to the left and a store to the right. A portion of Young Street ran between south 1st Street and 3rd Street north of Adair Street. Notes:...
600 block south 4th Street looking north. The Brown Hotel is on the right, to the east, and a row of businesses is to the west. Streetcar tracks are on the street.
