Rose vine holding one large rose, a smaller rose and a bud trails over a passage from Robert Louis Stevenson: "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, to make upon the whole, a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall...
Young girl with curly hair, shown from shoulders up. She wears a head scarf. Published by Gartner & Bender. Postmarked 1913 on verso. Title supplied by cataloger.
Young woman with a rose scene in profile. A landscape with a pine tree is visible in the background. Postmarked 1914 on verso. "Sepia Art Girls, Majestic Publishing Co." printed on background. Title supplied by cataloger.
Head and shoulders of a girl with short hair; she wears a blue dress. Postmarked 1913 on verso. Published by Gartner & Bender Publishers. Title supplied by cataloger.
Young woman standing in the basket of a hot air balloon which is aloft. She is surrounded by shamrocks, which are also spilling out of the basket. A plain ivory flag or strip of cloth waves near the woman. May be a St. Patrick's Day card....
Two cows in a creek shaded by trees. One cow is drinking. The other is almost completely in shadow. The clouds on the horizon are orange, as at twilight. Postmarked 1908 on verso. "Th. E., L. Theochrom - Serie 940" printed on verso. Title...
Hospitals; Trees; Saint Francis Hospital (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Saint Francis Hospital complex in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with surrounding lawn and trees. St. Francis Hospital was founded in 1887. Message on verso dated 1953. Title supplied by cataloger.
Three pilots stand near a plane on the tarmac, from which passengers are disembarking. The card is an advertising card for Skychef. The name "Ivan Dmitri" is printed on the bottom right side of the front of the card; this is presumably...
Girl with bow in her ponytail runs from a lit firecracker. It's face has a menacing look. A lantern on the front reads "July 4th." Verse printed on front reads, "The giant cracker is a big red brute / With a tail that's like a snake...
Bathing beauties in early 20th century swimming attire. Three of the women are partially submerged in the water. The fourth is standing on the shore, wearing a bathing dress and holding a cloth (perhaps a towel); she also wears shoes with...
Several purple flowers and a single yellow flower against a gold background. Verse printed on front reads, "Don't let this surprise, you, but gently remind you / Of the letter you promised to write; / If you have any time to drop me a line, ;...
Tree stands next to path, its branches leaning over the path. This small image decorates the card, which also bears the text "Write me a letter just once in a while,-- / Something to cheer me and call up a smile, / Something to indicate...
Three young women in bathing dresses with stockings and lace-up ballerina style shoes play in the ocean. One sits on a rock, another splashes the other two. Published by Curt Teich. Postage requirements date this card to before 1952; the styles...
Three children - a boy, a girl and a very young girl - pick grapes from a vine. The boy stands on a box and hands bunches of grapes down to the older girl, who holds a basket. The younger girl is poised to pick up grapes from the ground; she holds...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings
Architectural rendering of University of Louisville Belknap Campus created by Jens Fredrick Larson in 1936. Larson created a master plan for the expansion of the university's Belknap Campus that was never realized due to the Second World War....
Paintings; Oil paintings; Portrait paintings; Allegorical paintings; Allegories; Symbols; Irony; Allusions; Politics & government; Economic & political systems; Economics; Political elections; Political campaigns; Rooms & spaces;...
"In this painting Haacke's use of allegorical detail has an ironic air of academic exactitude. For instance, the marble sculpture of Pandora, pointedly placed on the Victorian table next to Margaret Thatcher, is based on one produced in 1890...
