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Collection: Boyle County Public Library Artifacts

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Fall Foliage

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Matted and framed photograph of the fall foliage on Lexington Avenue in Danville. Frame is black with plexiglas glazing.

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Danville, Danville Kentucky, fall, Lexington Avenue, plants, trees

Shakertown Staircase 3/250

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Color photograph on photo paper of a staircase at Shakertown with a bowl of lemons on a table. Has a black frame with plexiglas glazing. Frame measures: 15 1/2" x 12 1/2" x 3/4"

Tags: Shakers, Shakertown, stairs

Shaker Lantern in Barn

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Color photograph on premium photo paper of a lamp in the barn by the hay. Has a black frame with plexiglas glazing. Frame measures: 16" x 13" x 3/4"

Tags: barns, hay, lanterns, Shakers

Shaker Spinning Wheel

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Color photograph of a Shaker spinning wheel. Framed in a wooden frame with non-glare glazing. Frame measures: 11 1/2" x 9 1/2" x 1"

Tags: Shakers, spinning wheel

Portrait of James G. Birney

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Tags: Birney, James G Birney, portraits

Pool Room

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Tags: pool, pool tables

Vendanges a Montmartre

Poster to announce/commemorate the Harvest Festival at Monmartre on 3 October 1987

Tags: announcements, France, Harvest Festival, Monmartre, posters

Mule Power

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Colored Pencil Drawing on wove paper of two mules pulling a plow in front of a man.

Tags: colored pencils, farms, fields, mules, plows

Sunset In the Knobs Down on the Fork

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a four member stretcher with no keys. Sun setting over a winter landscape

Tags: Forkland Community, knobs, landscapes, oil paintings, paintings, sunsets, winter

Workers Harvesting

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Acrylic on canvas stretched onto a gold frame. Workers harvesting in a field.

Tags: acrylic paintings, fields, workers

Playing in the Snow

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Acrylic on canvas, mounted onto a four member stretcher with no keys. Image is of two children with a sled in the snow.

Tags: acrylic paintings, children, kids, sleds, snow, winter

Wagon (Toy Horse attached)

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Wooden wagon, with red painted axles and wheels, black tread on the wheels. The wagon body is natural wood color with black stripes painted along boards. It is held to a toy horse (2012.90.1) with red string.

Tags: toys horses, wagons, wood

Warriors

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Statues replicas of the Terracotta Army.

Tags: China, Qin Shi Huang, terra cotta, terracotta, warriors

My Old Kentucky Home

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Composition of eight pieces of enamel on copper held together with wood and glue. Depicts images of Kentucky: a horse, the capital building, tobacco, state song, a horse farm.

Tags: capital buildings, horse farms, horses, Kentucky, state song, tobacco

Screaming Yellow Zonker

Model airplane.

Tags: airplanes, model airplanes

Japanese Doll in Case

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Japanese doll in glass case, she is in an orange kimono with long black hair. She is holding cherry blossoms and there are pagodas in the background.

Tags: dolls, Japanese, Kimonos

Train

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Train made from wood and various other metals, has working lights and whistle.

Tags: trains

Book

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Oversized book hanging from the ceiling in Children's Library.

Tags: books, children, kids

Judge Boyle Lap Desk

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Wooden lap desk designed to carry writing materials and opened on lap. Owned by Chief Justice John Boyle. There is a metal inlay on the top with the initials "JAB." There are two countersunk brass handles on either side. Wooden box opens to velvet…

Tags: desks, Judge Boyle, lap desks

Hamadan Rug

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Hamadan (may be Kazakh), hand woven wool oriental runner with 1" fringe on the two ends.

Tags: rugs, runner, wool, woven

Oriental Rugs

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Oriental Rugs on the 4th level of the library. These are in the Reading Room and in front of the Reference desk.

Tags: oriental, oriental rugs, rugs, wool, woven

Fragata Espanola

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A model ship of the Fragata Espanola ano 1780 made from wood, plastic, canvas and string.

Tags: boats, canvas, plastic, ships, wood

Wooden Ship

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Tags: boats, ships, wood

Checkerboard Bowl

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Wooden bowl made of two different woods in a checkerboard pattern

Tags: bowls, checkerboards, patterns, wooden

Boyle Silver Spoon

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Silver spoon made by the Duhme Company in the "double swell fiddle" pattern

Tags: Judge Boyle, silver, silver spoons, spoons

United States of America 34 Star Flag

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Silk flag of the United States of America. Thirteen stripes (seven red, six white). 34 white stars in a star pattern on a blue background. Measures 9.5 by 14 inches

Tags: flags, silk, stars, stars and stripes., stripes

Chinese Export Bowl

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Chinese export decorative bowl with dragon, bird, dog imagery in reds, greens and gold filigree on the interior sides; a blue lion on the base of the interior and blue landscape on the exterior

Tags: birds, bowls, Chinese, dogs, dragons, exports, lions, porcelain

Ephraim McDowell Home

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Glazed, plaster replica of the Ephraim McDowell Home. Part of the WPA Kentucky Museum Project.

Tags: Ephraim McDowell, houses, mcdowell, plaster, replicas, WPA

Screen with Butterflies and Flowers

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A contemporary Yonkyoku byobu, four panel paper and silk screen with wooden frame work, depicting butterflies, flowers and birds.

Tags: birds, butterflies, flowers, paper silk screen, silk, Yonkyoku byobu

One Third of a Dollar

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One third of a dollar, printed on paper. On front, image of sundial with the words: "FUGIO/Mind Your Business." On reverse, 13 interlocking circles with the names of the original colonies."

Tags: Continental Currency, Currency, Dollars, money, Philadelphia Hall & Sellers

Young-Rodes Seal

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Young-Rodes Seal and Press, used on imprinting books

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Boyle County Public Library, Young-Rodes

It's a Small World

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The work is a fabric hanging of the Earth with seven (7) children of various countries holding hands.

Tags: earth, fabric, multi-cultural, textiles, world

Commodore Perry Scrimshaw

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An Ivory tusk with Scimshaw on both sides.
Side 1: Portrait of Commodore Perry, with banner underneath
Side 2: The Ship: Lawrence

Tags: boats, commodore, engravings, ivory, navy, Oliver Hazard Perry, scrollwork, ships

John Christian Bullit Fireplace Set

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Fireplace Set that once belonged to John Christian Bullit, Graduate at Centre College 1824-1902.

Tags: fireplace set, fireplaces, John Christian Bullit

Stained Glass Screen

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Stained Glass Triptich - 3 Panel

Tags: glass, screens, stained glass

Stained Glass

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Stained glass hanging from the ceiling between the Mahan house and the computers on the 5th level

Tags: glass, stained glass

Wolf

Painting of a wolf's head on a black feather.

Tags: feathers, paintings, wolves

Standing Bear

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Painting of a brown standing bear painted on a white feather with a black tip.

Tags: bears, feathers, paintings

Male Doll

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Male doll with a body made from leather and fabric clothes. He has short black hair made from horse hair?. He is wearing a woven straw hat and has a woven basket to his side and has brightly colored textiles around his body. His shirt is tan and his…

Tags: boys, dolls, male, Mexican, Mexico

Female Doll

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Female, fabric doll with long, braided black yarn hair. She has glass eyes. Her head is formed with wood covered in fabric. She is wearing a white dress with short sleeves that has horizontal stripes in the skirt. She has a scarf that is orange,…

Tags: dolls, female, girls, Mexican, Mexico

Benjamin Franklin Bust

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Ceramic bust of Benjamin Franklin

Tags: Benjamin Franklin, busts

Elizabeth T. L. Wilkinson Fireplace Set

Fireplace Set under the portrait of Elizabeth T. Lee Wilkinson.

Tags: Elizabeth Wilkinson, fireplace set, fireplaces

Ivy Covered Trinity Episcopal

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Watercolor on wove paper of Trinity Episcopal Church, covered in ivy. Located on Main Street in Danville, KY.

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, churches, ivy, Trinity Episcopal, watercolors

Magnum Duorama Globe

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Handcrafted by Columbus Verlag in Stuttgart Germany. Scale 1:11,500,000; 181 miles to the inch. Satellite image with physical relief and vegetative shadings. Tilted at 23 degrees - earth's ecliptic plane in relation to the equator.

Tags: earth, globes, world

James R. Carrigan's Cane

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Black walking cane with silver knob.

Tags: canes, James Carrigan, walking sticks

Judge Cheek's Baby Blanket

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A wool blanket, cream with pink stripes. One edge has 1/4" silk edging and the other edge has 1/4" cotton edging.

Tags: babies, blankets, Judge Cheek, wool

Toraja House Model

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Model of a Toraja house made from wood and bamboo and painted. It has the traditional saddle shaped roof. It was made for the tourist trade.

Tags: Bamboo, houses, Toraja house, wood

Flowers and Butterfly

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a four-member stretcher with no keys. Butterfly on a flowering branch.
"Whatever I see that I like, I paint it." Inez graduated from Lowell High School and San Francisco State University. She was a member ot the…

Tags: butterflies, Danville Art Guild, flowers, Inez Renee Thornton, Thornton

Kokpelli, Moon, Sun, & Gecko Table

Hand painted coffee table with a large green gecko in the middle and a sun, moon and Kokpelli around it. Each leg is painted in a different pattern.

Tags: geckos, moons, suns, tables

Flamenco: Body and Soul: Panel I, II, III

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Three panels created to describe the Flamenco dance. Using tie-dye, batik, applique and screen printing techniques. The first panel has a large heart in the center surrounded by a vine and hearts and flowers in the background. The second panel has…

Tags: batik, dancers, flamenco, flowers, hearts, suns, tie-dye, vines

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