"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...
Vertical pair of signs for Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. The top sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Save Money - More Heat - Less Ash" with a picture of an eagle. The bottom sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Sterns Coal Co.-...
African Americans, including a man, two women, three children, and a baby held by the woman at left, pose close in front of an house of unpainted, long vertical wood boards supporting a roof with thick shingles; the house has a tall brick chimney...
Black dog and smaller white dog look up at a birdfeeder with a bird on its edge. A fence with two posts is in the background. The image is inside an oval frame on a panel with vertical stripes. The name "Minnie Marvin Wheeler" is at the...
Bridges; Rivers; Bridge construction; United States. Works Progress Administration
Man building bridge at Rough River, Kentucky. A man holds a horizontal log to a vertical log. He is standing in a recess, like a dam. Behind him is a wall of horizontal logs, reaching his shoulders. To the side is a sloping, similar wall. The area...
Broom & brush industry; Industrial facilities; Brooms & brushes; Men
Seven men work at different stages of making brooms in front of a building of unpainted, long vertical wood boards. The building has two peaked roofs and several porches with slanting roofs. A row of brooms leans along the front porch railings;...
Buildings; Barns; Dwellings; Horse farms; Man o' War (Race horse)
Faraway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the Daingerfield farms, home of Man O'War. Six dark clad adults in overcoats and a baby in white congregate at the edges of a barn of dark, vertical wood boards, and doors which are reinforced with...
Address: 1100 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. View of signs painted on the brick building currently housing Louisville Office Furniture. Vertical sign reads: "OK Storage"; sign at base of building reads "OK Over Seas...
Buildings; Commercial facilities; Department stores; Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward, Fourth Street between Walnut and Liberty, Louisville, Kentucky; opening day 1920. Slightly diagonal photograph of Montgomery Ward, with a sign above its first floor saying its name on a windowless concrete panel; for the two floors...
Columbia Theater, Fourth Street south of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Stone, ornamented, three-story building with a one-story wing at the left. Central entrance and an entrance on the wing are reached by stone stairs over a slight embankment;...
Columbia Theater, Fourth Street south of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Similar image to ULPA 1994.18.1102. Stone, ornamented, three-story building with a one-story wing at the left. Central entrance and an entrance on the wing are reached by...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums
Inside Municipal War Memorial Auditorium looking toward exit, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Vertical photograph of aisle leading toward auditorium exit under "Exit" sign, a hall visible beyond. Above the exit is the...
View of Weber School of Dance before being renovated with Perma Stone. The top third of the building has white horizontal siding and the bottom two-thirds have dark vertical siding..
Unidentified house in Simpsonville, Kentucky. The light brick one-story house with two chimneys has a high roof which has three vertical rows of rectangular roofing and one dormered window. There is also a porch covered in ivy.
Farmhouse at the site of what is now Bashford Manor Shopping Center. White wood house of vertical boards with a gently peaked roof. Double doors flanked by windows open a crack. Second floor front windows are peaked; side are not; all are vented...
Thomas Jefferson School, 525 East Walnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Square, three-story light brick building having a flat roof. Above the doors is written, "Thomas Jefferson School." On each side of the building, surrounding a...
J. Stoddard Johnston elementary school, Flatlick Road & Warnock Street, Louisville, Kentucky (now 2301 Bradley Avenue). Artist's drawing of three-story brick building with vertical columns around four two-story panels of windows. The entrance...
J. Stoddard Johnston elementary school, Flatlick Road & Warnock Street, Louisville, Kentucky (now 2301 Bradley Avenue). Three-story brick building with vertical columns around four two-story panels of windows. The entrance is on the second...
