Back of flatbed train car carrying a large piece of machinery. Behind the train are men, lumber, and more equipment. Descriptive information on back of card: Made by I.L. Hammond & Co., 172 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. Includes series list but...
Two men stand in the middle of a set of railroad tracks which appear to be under construction. In the background are more men and a railroad car. Descriptive information on back of card: Made by I.L. Hammond & Co., 172 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me....
Large piles of lumber and other materials. A train wheel is visible at the bottom of the pile. Two men stand at the base with more men standing on top. Descriptive information on back of card: Made by I.L. Hammond & Co., 172 Lisbon St.,...
Stacks of lumber with large machinery in the background. Men stand among the stacks. Descriptive information on back of card: Made by I.L. Hammond & Co., 172 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. Includes series list but specific card number is not...
Buildings; Stores & shops; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Street railroad tracks
One-story wooden building with dark facade at the corner of Twentieth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Appears to be a grocer (no specific name given) with ads for Mother's Bread in the windows. A person can be seen in...
Three men in uniform work at a desk in the Air Force ROTC office located in the Patterson Hall annex. From left to right: S/Sgt. Charles Lorence, Instructor; T/Sgt. Charles D. Mandich, Instructor; M/Sgt. John H. Frantz, Instructor. The unit of the...
Pencil drawing; "This drawing, which at nearly three feet in height is very large for Giacometti, is one of an enormous number that he produced throughout his life. His sculptures and paintings of the figure, similarly attenuated, are far...
"The Hall of the Colossus was deliberately set in the northeast corner of the Forum, at the end of the large western portico, in the typical position of the sacelli closely linked to basilicas, as in the provincial complexes. But in this...
Architecture; Buildings; Religious facilities; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Cults; Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Architectural elements; Walls; Pilasters;...
Shows "the end wall (frescoed) and the side wall (on the south side) with the reconstruction of the architectural order." (Caption, p. 145); "The Hall of the Colossus was deliberately set in the northeast corner of the Forum, at the...
Drawings; Graphite drawings; Pencil works; Seascape drawings; Seascapes; Seas; Oceans; Water; Bodies of water
"Born in Riga in 1938, and transplanted to America in 1949, Celmins has only recently become well known. Her strangely detached, unlocated subjects suggest a radical retreat from the concerns of modern life. Perhaps they relate to her early...
Performance art; Video recording; Motion pictures; Film stills; Myths; Fairy tales; Allusions; Artificial limbs; Artists; Women; Hairstyles; Posing; Interiors; Rooms & spaces; Architectural elements; Walls; Windows
Film still from recorded performance. "Rebecca Horn's early performances involved her strapping surreal prostheses to her body or wearing elaborate costumes. The allusions to fairy tale and myth were unmistakable but rarely specific. Since...
Photograph of exhibition installation, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, September-October 1953; "In this early Independent Group exhibition photographs of varying sizes were attached to the gallery walls. Others were suspended by...
Installation, L'Attico Gallery, Rome. Detail of wall drawing in pencil. Draughtsmen: Climbo, Piccari, Battista, Pranovi. "In the early 1960s LeWitt had largely devoted himself to producing modular open cube structures made from wood. His 'wall...
"The vast majority of prehistoric sculptures depict either animals or humans. In the earliest art, humankind consists almost exclusively of women as opposed to men, and painters and sculptors almost invariably showed them nude […]. When...
"Because precision in dating is impossible for the Paleolithic era, art historians usually can be no more specific than assigning a range of several thousand years to each artifact. But probably later in date than the Venus of Willendorf is...
Detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting. "More remarkable still is a painting in one of the older rooms at Çatal Höyük that generally has been acclaimed as the world's first landscape (a picture of a natural setting in its own right,...
"Further insight into Sumerian religious beliefs and rituals comes from a cache of sculptures reverently buried beneath the floor of a temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar) when the structure was remodeled. Carved of soft gypsum and inlaid...
From Hierakonpolis, Egypt. "In Predynastic times, Egypt was divided geographically and politically into Upper Egypt (the southern, upstream part of the Nile Valley), a narrow tract of grassland that encouraged hunting, and Lower (northern)...
"Sometime around 530 BCE a young man named Kroisos died a hero's death in battle, and his grave at Anavysos, not far from Athens, was marked by a kouros statue. The inscribed base invites visitors to 'stay and mourn at the tomb of dead...
Central figure on the west pediment. "The discovery of the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus in 1876/77 was one of the greatest moments of the excavation. They were found in specific positions in front of both ends of the temple, a...
