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Collection: Boyle County Public Library Artifacts

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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

Young-Rodes Library

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Computer manipulated photograph of 3rd Street entrance to the Young Rodes Library

Tags: BCPL, Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Public Library

Workers Harvesting

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

Tags: acrylic paintings, fields, workers

Woodpecker

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Carved wooden Black and White Woodpecker with Red spot on top of head. Bird is standing on a piece of wood.

Tags: birds, carvings, wood, woodpecker

Wooden Ship

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Tags: boats, ships, wood

Wolf

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

Tags: feathers, paintings, wolves

Winchester Cathedral: Jane Austen's Grave

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Jane Austen is known as one of the greatest novelists, but when she was buried in the Cathedral in 1817 at the age of 41, her original memorial stone made no mention of her books. You can read the brass plaque erected in 1872 to redress the omission…

Tags: cathedrals, graves, Jane Austen

White Crowned Sparrow and Multi-flora Rose

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Tags: birds, flowers, roses, sparrows

Whimsey in Weisiger

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a five member stretcher, without keys, of the fountain and Advocate Brass Band in front of the Danville Courthouse.

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, brass bands, Courthouses, Danville, Danville Courthouse, fountains, Weisiger Park

Watts-Bell House in Constitution Square

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Pen and ink drawing of the Watts-Bell House in Constitution Square, Danville, KY

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Constitution Square, Danville, Danville Kentucky, houses

Water Lilies

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Tags: flowers, lilies, water lilies

Warriors

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Statues replicas of the Terracotta Army.

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

Waiting For Hair

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Color photograph on photo paper of the interior of the 3rd Street Barber Shop. Framed in a wooden frame with plexiglas glazing. Frame measures: 13 1/4" x 16 1/2" x 3/4"

Tags: barber shops, chairs

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

Vision

Norman was selected to serve as the 2009-2010 Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was officially installed as Laureate on April 24, 2009. On May 8, 2011, Norman was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Berea…

Tags: Kentucky Poet Laureates, poems, poetry

Vendanges a Montmartre

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

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

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

UK Tobacco Cutting Contestants

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Colored Pencil Drawing on wove paper of two men in a tobacco field.

Tags: colored pencils, farms, fields, men, tobacco, UK, University of Kentucky

Train

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

Tags: trains

Tra'fico

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Acrylic on canvas stretched onto a four member stretcher. No keys in stretcher. Scattered use of acrylic medium on surface.

Tags: abstract, acrylic paintings

Totem Pole

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Painted, polychrome wooden totem pole with four figures. From top down: human, hawk, beaver, octopus.

Tags: beaver, hawk, human, octopus, totem poles, totems, wood

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

Time Zippy

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The work is a series of 365 blown glass orbs (10 inches) of various colors, hanging in an inverted cone from the ceiling of the vestibule.

Tags: balloons, blown glass, glass, glass orbs, hanging sculpture, time, year

The Woodlands: Birches in Autumn Woods

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a six member strainer of birch trees.

Tags: birches, oil paintings, trees, woods

The Venus de' Medici

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Bronze sculpture, copy of The Venus de' Medici. A nude Venus with two putti riding a dolphin.

Tags: Aphrodite, bronze, dolphins, goddess, Grecian, Greece, Greeks, Hellenistic, putti, sculptures, Venus, Venus de' Medici

The Sun Shines Bright on My Old Kentucky Home

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Mixed media artwork, a black horse with Kentucky in the background

Tags: birds, bourbon, capital, cardinals, Confederate, dogwood, horses, Kentucky, Lincoln, mixed media, music, state, trees, Union

The Rock Breaker

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This is a copy of an original pastel by Paul Sawyier. It shows the bust image of African-American man wearing a fur cap. He has on a dark gray shirt with green striped suspenders. There is a gray background surrounding the head. Alternate titles…

Tags: African Americans, Blacks, hats, Henry Waters, suspenders, Uncle Joe

The Cliffs: Kentucky Pallisades

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Watercolor painting on paper, depicts Kentucky pallisades in abstracted form.

Tags: abstracts, cliffs, Kentucky Pallisades, watercolors

Telegraph Tower, Junction City, KY

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Black and white photograph of the Telegraph Tower in Junction City, KY, circa 1950.

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Junction City, telegraph, towers

Sycamores

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a seven member strainer. Two Sycamore trees in the foreground by a stream with hills and trees in the background.

Tags: hills, oil paintings, paintings, streams, sycamores, trees

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

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

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

Silhouette of a Horse

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Pastel on black paper of a brown horse on a blue background.

Tags: horses, pastels

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Commemorative plate for America's Sesqui Centennial featuring Norman Rockwell's Benjamin Franklin standing beside a desk, ready to sign the Declaration of Independance.

Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence, Norman Rockwell, plates, Rockwell

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 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

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

Senator John J. Crittenden Portrait

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Small watercolor, oval portrait of Sen. John J. Crittenden on Ivory

Tags: ivory, John Crittenden, portraits, watercolors

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

Screaming Yellow Zonker

Model airplane.

Tags: airplanes, model airplanes

Sallie Rodes Tutt Portrait

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The painting is an oil on canvas on board of a seated Sallie Rodes Tutt (1842-1904) holding flowers in her hand. The painting is a copy of an original that belongs to Sarah Fraser Robbins (Sallie Rodes Tutt's granddaughter) of Massachusetts.

Tags: oil paintings, portraits, Sallie Rodes, Sallie Tutt

Saber Tooth Tiger

Bronze cast from a fossil skull of a sabre tooth tiger sitting on a bronze and marble base. Work has a dark patina.

Tags: prehistoric, prehistoric mammals, Saber-tooth tigers, sculpture, Smilodon, tigers

Rotunda (at night)

Tags: BCPL, Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Public Library, Kentucky, rotundas

Rotunda

Photographic print on paper of the exterior Rotunda of the Boyle County Public Library in Danville, KY

Tags: BCPL, Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Boyle County Public Library, exteriors, rotundas

Rose Breasted Grosbeak

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Photo-Mechanical print on wove paper of Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

Tags: birds, grosbeak, roses

Rolling Fork Stream

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Watercolor painting on watercolor paper of Rolling Fork Stream. Trees beside stream.

Tags: Rolling Fork, streams, trees, watercolors

River Road

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Oil painting on four member stretcher of road by the river in winter. (between Mt. Vernon & Livingston)

Tags: mountains, oil paintings, paintings, rivers, trees

Resolve

Maureen Morehead is a retired school teacher with 32 years of service with the Jefferson County public schools, teaching advanced placement English, creative writing and journalism. She also taught at the University of Louisville and Western Kentucky…

Tags: Kentucky Poet Laureates, poems, poetry

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