Autographed portrait of R. G. (Robert Green) Ingersoll seated, wearing a three-piece suit and tie. Ingersoll lectured on "Why I Am an Agnostic" at Macauley's Theatre on February 23, 1898. In previous years, he had given lectures on...
Portrait of performer Marion Giroux wearing an off-the-shoulder dress. She starred in "My Friend from India" at Macauley's Theatre in February 1897, the occasion for the inscription of this portrait. Giroux also appeared in "Why...
Portrait of actor Maclyn Arbuckle looking to his right, wearing a double-breasted suit jacket and striped bow tie. His hair is parted in the middle and curls slightly at the sides. Arbuckle was born July 9, 1866, in San Antonio, Texas, and died...
Portrait of right profile of performer Marion Giroux, with head tilted back, wearing and off-the-shoulder lace dress. She starred in "My Friend from India" at Macauley's Theatre in February 1897, the occasion for the inscription of this...
Full-length character portrait of left profile of unidentified man standing before a backdrop of an urban residential block during snowfall. He wears a stocking cap, tunic, knee-length breeches, and ankle-length shoes, and carries an unusual...
Portrait of actor Maclyn Arbuckle wearing a three-piece suit and necktie with stickpin. He was born July 9, 1866, in San Antonio, Texas, and died March 31, 1931, in Waddington, New York. Maclyn Arbuckle played the role of Sheriff "Slim"...
Portrait of actor Maclyn Arbuckle looking to his left, wearing a double-breasted suit jacket and striped bow tie. His hair is parted in the middle and curls slightly at the sides. Arbuckle was born July 9, 1866, in San Antonio, Texas, and died...
Portrait of actress Gertrude Roosevelt. She is seated, leaning toward the camera, with her chin in her right hand. She wears a long-sleeve white dress, and her hair pulled back. Roosevelt performed at Macauley's Theatre in "Why Smith Left...
Maps; Floods; Disasters; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville--1920--1940; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River
Map showing, in blue, the areas of Louisville, Kentucky, affected by the 1937 flooding of the Ohio River. Includes Street Index on recto, and description of the flood, chart of elevations of the Ohio River during floods dating back to 1832,...
Politicians; Political campaigns; Democratic Party (Louisville and Jefferson County, Ky.); Legislators--United States; Legislators--Kentucky;
Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 21, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the third of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...
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....
Railroad stations; Railroads; Union Station (Chicago, Ill.); Buildings; Bridges
Overhead view of Union Station in Chicago and the Chicago River. Two buildings are in the background with rows of train platforms in front. To the left is the Chicago River with a boat and barges visible. In the foreground is a bridge crossing the...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Men; Young adults; Discrimination; Race discrimination; Racism; Prejudice; Cultural relations; Social classes; Social aspects; Interpersonal relations; Fear
Earth, linen cloth, and wood, and recorded interviews; “ ‘My godson’s experience stimulated this piece. He’s grown up in Greenwich Village and one evening while out with his friends the police swooped down upon them. They were thrown...
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Fantasy; Allusions; Symbols; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust; Gays; Martyrs; Saints; People associated with religion; Sailors; Men; Women; Bathing beauties; Portraits; Self-portraits; Nudes; Muscles; Standing;...
"One of Dali's greatest paintings from the mid-1920s, not exhibited since 1927. The influence of Picasso is manifest. It develops the theme of Saint Sebastian that so fascinated Lorca [Federico García Lorca] and Dali." (Caption);...
"The ever-present, brooding presence of Lorca [Federico García Lorca]." (Caption); "That Lorca continued to be on Dali's mind as he worked on Bacchanale is confirmed by a painting done during these months at La Pausa, The Great...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. The 'paranoiac-critical town' is composed of elements principally from Cadaqués and Palamós." (Caption); "The reference was to Outskirts of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, one of Dali's finest...
Sculpture; Urns; Death & burial; Containers; Soldiers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Death & burial; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Cartouches; Pediments; Tympana; Architectural elements; Inscriptions; Names;...
"The front of this rectangular urn is decorated with two friezes of hearts and darts. Smooth strips frame the decoration along the top and bottom rims and emphasize the container's shape. The central surface of such objects was inscribed. This...
"Dali prided himself on being the world's greatest ever painter of the female posterior." (Caption); "It was probably early in 1950 that Emmanuel Looten, a little-known Flemish poet, had made Dali the unexpected and 'gelatinous' gift...
