Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Rollo Wayne, designer, director, writer, and actor, poses in riding pants and boots in a country scene including snow on the ground, a stone wall, trees, and an A-frame house. Inscription on print, lower left: "To Mr. Boyd & Miss Julia in...
Advertisement for Royal Crown hanging from a wall. On the poster sits a woman in an Uncle Sam outfit holding a bottle of RC Cola. The text reads "Royal Crown Cola. All America town by town votes to Make mine Royal Crown." For Brown &...
Advertising; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Stores & shops; Office buildings; Automobiles; Dwellings; Houses; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Transportation
Taken for Louisville Gas & Electric, this photograph shows route of power lines after purchase of home telephone poles and consolidation of lines. Utility lines have been placed in a row down Frankfort Avenue. On the right side are some homes....
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...
African Americans; Men; Hand tools; Hammers; Shoes; Shoemakers; Shoemaking; People
An African American man sits on a wooden bench and uses a hammer on the sole of a boot supported on a metal pole. He wears a work apron over his knee-length pants and button-up shirt with tie. Tongs, shoehorns, and more shoes wait on the bench next...
African Americans; Suits (Clothing); Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Group portraits; Bible--Study & teaching; People; Men
The Glad Hand Bible class of the East End Baptist Settlement poses for a picture. The African-American men are dressed somberly in dark suits with ties. One man holds a white hat with a dark band. On the wall behind them is a faded sign for Quaker...
African Americans; Women; Sewing machines; Sewing; People
A group of African American women participate in a sewing class. Along one side of the room the women work at sewing machines which are built into desks. In the middle of the room long tables are placed end to end and women work on laying out...
African-American women in a beauty shop. Women in white smocks or dresses cut and style hair along the long side wall, with their customers seated in front of them. To the side is a table where another woman gives a manicure. A woman sits in the...
Air pollution; Rivers; Boats; Transportation; Military facilities
Address: River Road and Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A boat comes out of the covered shelter of the U.S. Coast Guard station. A man in a white cap is seated at the front of the boat and two men in dark uniforms are standing at the rear of...
Amusement parks; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement rides
This partially corroded image depicts the alpine slide ride at Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Twin slides end atop two wood-planked raised platforms. A sign painted on the wall shows a hand pointing and the words "way to top of...
Address: 2140 Bonnycastle Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Built in 1928, the Commodore Apartment Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The entryway of this 11-story building includes a low field-stone wall with...
Art--Economic aspects--Nigeria; Anatsui, El, 1944-; Nigeria--Foreign economic relations
This paper is specifically concerned with contemporary artist El Anatsui, and his impact upon the region in which he lives and works in Nsukka, Nigeria. El Anatsui's large-scale wall sculptures—created by joining recycled aluminum distillery...
Automobile service stations; Buildings; Transportation; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices)
A Gulf service station sits at the corner of a street which is likely located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The lot has two tall lampposts with five white globes. Fuel pumps sit by a small brick building with terra cotta roof tiles. Cars are...
Three cars are parked at the Iroquois Park observation point which faces downtown Louisville. A flag pole flies the U.S. flag as park-goers look out over the view. The observation point is a flattened space at the top of a hill which is surrounded...
A convertible automobile is pulled up to the side of one of the overlooks at Iroquois Park in Louisville, Kentucky. A woman in a coat and feathered hat sits on the rock wall surrounding the overlook. Two men stand by the car and another woman sits...
Seven-member band set up behind a low stone wall. The sign below them reads "Tango." The band members were tuxedos. Their instruments include a piano, drums, saxophone, and guitar or banjo.
