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Construction of "Borrow Pit"

Date: 02 22 1919
Description: Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ...
Photograph

Construction on Culvert over Maggard's Branch

Date: 05 03 1919
Description: Workers building a culvert over Maggard's Branch near mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed i...
Photograph

Men Standing Posing on Flooded Rail Line

Date: 1919
Description: Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b...
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Construction of Railroad Dock

Date: 03 29 1919
Description: Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for...
Drawing

Camp of 22nd Wisconsin

Date: 1862
Description: Sketch of Boone's Knob and the Kentucky River, where Company A of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry camped, November-December, 1862. The sketch was drawn by Priv...
Photograph

Fort Boonesborough

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Description: Drawing of an elevated view of Fort Boonesborough, built by Daniel Boone in 1775. Caption reads: "Boone's Fort."
Photograph

Ferry and Ferryman

Date: 05 26 1894
Description: A ferryman poses on his docked ferry. Two horses are loaded on the ferry.
Photograph

Palisades

Date: 05 26 1894
Description: The palisades along Big Bone Creek.
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Crowd on a Wharf

Date: 05 29 1894
Description: A crowd of people gathered on a wharf with boats in the foreground.
Photograph

Houseboat near Shoreline

Date: 05 30 1894
Description: A houseboat on the Ohio River. A man stands on the deck of the boat on the right.
Photograph

Wharf Boat

Date: 06 02 1894
Description: Men pose in front of a docked wharf boat.
Photograph

Children and a Cart

Date: 06 02 1894
Description: A group of children pose with a small cart.
Photograph

Stone Quarry

Date: 06 02 1894
Description: View from the Ohio River of a stone quarry.
Photograph

Bethel, a Church Boat

Date: 06 04 1894
Description: View of a church boat called "Bethel" on the river.
Photograph

Dredging Barges

Date: 06 04 1894
Description: A fleet of dredges moored to the Kentucky shore.
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: In Old Kentucky

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ...
Photograph

Steamboats at Wharf

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Description: Elevated view of several steamboats docked at the wharf. Some of the boats are docked near a building bearing advertising reading: "Gardner's Furniture, Ca...
Map or Atlas

Map of Powell's Valley and Clinch Valley

Date: 11 26 1883
Description: A hand-drawn map of the Clinch and Powell's Valleys, including the Cumberland Mountains, Powell's Mountains and Clinch Mountains.
Map or Atlas

A New Map of Kentucky

Date: 1847
Description: A color map of Kentucky with insets showing Lexington, the Falls of Ohio, and the Ohio River.
Photograph

Moving Truck with Sternwheel Steamboat on the Ohio River

Date: 11 1976
Description: Color photo of an International Harvester model 1700 truck owned by A. Arnold and Son Transfer and Storage Co. by the Ohio River. On the river is a sternwh...

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