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Photo of children in goat cart
Kentucky Library Photograph Collection

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many more reasons do you need to view our 12,000 photographs? People, places and things -- photographs tell their stories. Parades, events, schools, stagecoaches, and steamboats are but a few topics that await you. For a glimpse at our collection, we give you 25 of our favorites.

 Museum Exhibit Visitors
Bowling Green Business
Bowling Green Streetcars
Catching Fish
Rural Training School in 1927
Cedar Bluff CollegeTeacher
Children Playing
Moonshiners' Exploits
Construction in Gallatin County
Class of 1929
Dentist W. S. Yarborough
General Simon Bolivar Buckner
Board of Health Fights Malaria
Homeplace Traveling Library
Joe Louis Visits Camp Breckenridge
Josephine Calvert
New Victrola
"Ordinary" Bicycle
Photographer Eugene Franklin
Carrie Burnam Taylor
Playing at Walnut Cliff Farm
String Quartet
Tom Thumb Wedding
Woman on Horseback
WPA sponsored Immunizations
Bowling Green Postman






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