A spinning wheel sits in front of a window inside the Hegan family log cabin. The cabin, located near Jacob's Park south of Louisville, Kentucky, was owned by Samuel W. Hegan, father of Alice Caldwell Hegan, who wrote "Mrs. Wiggs of the...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Architectural drawing of Stephen Foster School at 3920 Garland Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Two-story brick building. The central front entrance is a pointed dome. At the roof over the entrance is the date "1914." Foster elementary...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Foster School at 3920 Garland Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Diagonal view from right of long, narrow two-story brick building. The front entrance, a pointed dome set in a one story square porch, is reached by stairs. Foster elementary school was...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Foster School, 3920 Garland Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. Diagonal view from left of long, narrow two-story brick building with an above ground basement. The front entrance, a pointed dome set in a one story square porch, is reached by stairs....
An exterior view of the stone fireplace and chimney on the Hegan family log cabin. The cabin, located near Jacob's Park south of Louisville, Kentucky, was owned by Samuel W. Hegan, father of Alice Caldwell Hegan, who wrote "Mrs. Wiggs of the...
Fort Pitt Blockhouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This structure was built in 1764 and is the only remaining building from Fort Pitt. A guard stands in the doorway of the building. A. W. Terhune wrote on the front of the postcard: "Walked down...
To gain a true appreciation of the works of any author, we must first be familiar with his race, his environment, and the period in which and of which he wrote. The Paris of the early seventeenth century was far different from the modern metropolis...
History in art; Pastel drawing, American--21st century--Kentucky--Exhibitions; Civilization in art
The new work I have developed while pursuing my Masters in Art at the University of Louisville is strongly based on the narrative. I have always used the imagery in my work as social commentary. The stories and images I develop are to be viewed as...
Several horses with carriages are on Third Street in Louisville, Ky. The Grabfelder Mansion at 1442 Third Street is on the left sitting two doors down from the Samuel Culbertson Mansion at 1432 Third Street. A. W. Terhune wrote on the front of the...
Delacoosha, an estate in Pewee Valley, was owned by Albert Burge in the late nineteenth century. Annie Fellows Johnston was visiting the Burges when she met Hattie Cochran, Rebecca Porter, and the Old Colonel, George Washington Weissinger, and was...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actresses; Women; Costumes; Posing; Families
Group portrait of three Vokes sisters (Victoria, Rosina, and Jessie), who, with Fred and Fawdon Vokes, wrote and performed sketches as the Vokes Family in the 1880s. They are wearing dark, winter-weight dresses and hats. They performed "The...
Group portraits; Portrait photographs; Actresses; Women; Costumes; Posing
Group portrait of three Vokes sisters (Victoria, Rosina, and Jessie), who, with Fred and Fawdon Vokes, wrote and performed sketches as the Vokes Family. They are wearing striped dresses with pinafores and wide-brimmed hats. These costumes may...
Kanawha River in downtown Charleston, West Virginia. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bridge can be seen in the distance. A. W. Terhune wrote on the front of the postcard: "I'm a thinkin of you honey all de while, Pop."
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
An older woman with gray hair stands in a garden holding an Asian style parasol on her right shoulder and a vine or branch in her left hand. She is wearing a dress with large sleeves and a lace collar. The woman may be Fannie Caldwell Macaulay,...
