Sketch of champion harness racer Prince Wilkes, with the horse racing and pulling a jockey in a sulky, or two-wheeled cart. "D. W. Smith, 1887" is written in the left corner, and "2.14 3/4" and "Prince Wilkes" in the...
"As an African-American who is able to pass as 'white', Piper has written eloquently of the social and institutional prejudices that surface when she divulges her racially mixed identity. In a text entitled 'Flying' of 1987 she wrote: 'I am...
Sculpture; Figurines; Human body; Heads (Anatomy); Animals; Lions
"One of the earliest sculptures discovered to date is an extraordinary ivory statuette, which may be as old as 30,000 BCE, from a cave at Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany. Carved out of mammoth ivory and nearly a foot tall - a truly huge image...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Buildings; Exhibition buildings; People
Building at World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, with a first floor and small second floor topped by a dome and United States flag. Over the top portion of the entrance hang two United States flags which are at either side of a white flag showing...
Slavery--Political aspects--Kentucky; Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
In his 1926 study of the Civil War era in Kentucky, southern historian E. Merton Coulter repeated the old saying that Kentucky was the only state to secede after Appomattox. In an over-simplification of the process, most historians have seen harsh...
Two-story brick building with a pinnacled tower. "The Town Hall" is written above the building's top windows, which hold a banner reading "National Educational Association." Two curving sets of stairs with statues in front lead...
St. Irene (Church : Istanbul, Turkey); Irene, Empress of the East, 752?-803; Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of the East, 718-775; Apses (Architecture)--Turkey--Istanbul; Art patronage--Turkey--Istanbul--History--8th century
The mosaic of the cross in the apse of Hagia Eirene in Constantinople is examined in order to determine the imperial patron responsible for it's construction. Key points in this study are Orthodox image veneration, Iconoclast doctrine and the...
Portraits; Men; Baseball players; Uniforms; People associated with entertainment & sports
Al LeCompte wearing a Louisville Colonels baseball uniform. The photograph has been written on top, front edge. Handwritten on back of image: Al LeCompte, Louisville Colonels pitcher. Stamped on back: April 24, 1935.
Livestock; Cattle; Cows; African Americans; People
Young African-American man in overalls and a hat holds the end of a rope attached to a cow as a leash. They are in a fenced area in front of a building. The cow has white markings. Text written on bottom right: '9th Duchess' S.H.D. Information on...
Young man wearing overalls and a dome-shaped hat stands in a fenced area in front of a building holding a rope attached to a calf as a leash. Text written on bottom right: Dolly Clay - Alderney. Information on back of card: Alexander's Blooded...
Light-colored cow stands in a fenced area in front of a building. A leash is attached to a harness around its face. Text written on bottom right: Lady Lincoln - Alderney. Information on back of card: Alexander's Blooded Stock (Woodburn, Ky.)...
Group of five sheep stand in a group in a fenced area in front of a building. Text written on bottom right: Southdown Sheep. Information on back of card: Alexander's Blooded Stock (Woodburn, Ky.) Photographed and Published by James Mullen, No. 52...
Group of men and women sit in three rows of chairs in a room in front of a chalkboard that reads "Louisville The Kentucky Colonels" and has names and numbers written on it.
Soldiers--French; World War, 1914-1918--France; Military uniforms; Military life; Pacifists
Photographic postcard of André Jeunet taken during his military training in Autun, France in 1915. Other copies were mailed to his family, but Jeunet saved this one and inscribed it in 1920.
A portrait of Mrs. Annie Craig, the real-life model for the character Grandmother MacIntyre in the Little Colonel books written by Annie Fellows Johnston. She is wearing a black lace dress and light reflects off her silver hair. Annie was the widow...
Antiphonaries--Illustrations; Gregorian chants--Illustrations; Music--Manuscripts--France; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval
Leaf from a fifteenth century French antiphonary, representing a segment of text related to the Feast of the Crown of Thorns. Also called an antiphonal or antiphoner, an antiphonary collects portions of psalms and hymns sung during liturgies or...
Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes), 1864-1936; Radio in religion--United States--History; Religious broadcasting--Christianity--History; Religious broadcasting--United States--History; Christianity--United States--20th century
S. Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), a Christian minister at Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York from 1901 to 1936, was a popular religious figure in interwar America. From 1924 to 1928, Cadman served as president of the Federal Council of...
It is to be noticed that if there be any marshy places, certain animals breed there, which are invisible to the eye and yet getting into the system through the mouth and nostrils cause serious disorders." This quaint observation is taken from...
Advertising; Stores & shops; Show windows; Street railroad tracks; Automobiles; Utility poles; Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Buildings; Transportation
Written on the front of the photograph is, "January - 10 - 1921, Louisville Gas & Electric Co., Bardstown Road at Highland Ave. looking South - showing all lines moved to Southwest side of street." Utility poles line the sidewalk...
Bridges; Stone bridges; Streams; Floods; Floods--Kentucky--Louisville
Curved portion of Beargrass Creek leading to a stone bridge with billboards on the road above. The creek has water in it. A car is parked next to the bridge. Part of an improvement project to the creek. Written on image: O.R.F.-63. 11:30 A.M.
