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Copper Box, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Copper box and some of the duplicate items stored in it. These artifacts are housed in the Kentucky Museum.

Copper Box, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Copper box and some of the items stored in it, duplicates of items in the time capsule in the base of the Cherry Statue. These items and box are stored in the Kentucky Museum.

Copper Box, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Photo of the copper box used to store duplicate items in the Kentucky Museum. The box measures 15 1/4 inches in length, 10 inches in width and is 4 3/4 inches high.

Box Label 2, Mattie Mclean

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

A second label prepared for the copper box housed in the Kentucky Museum. The contents of this box duplicate as nearly as it is possible for us to do, the contents of the one which was placed in the base of Dr. Cherry's bronze statue. Mattie M. McLean, April 6, 1938.

Receipt For Lock, W. T. Cargile

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Receipt for $.50 paid by J.R. Whitmer, chair of the Cherry Statue Committee to W.T. Cargile local sheet metal contractor for the purchase of a lock for the copper box.

Ua1b3/5 That Other Thing, J. R. Alexander

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by J.R. Alexander at the unveiling of the Cherry Statue.

Ua1b3/5 Contents Of Copper Box Placed Beneath Dr. H.H. Cherry's Statue, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

WKU Archives Records

List of items to be placed in time capsule beneath the Henry Cherry Statue on the Western Kentucky University campus. Some items were duplicated in a box housed in the Kentucky Museum.

Ua1b3/5 Contents Of Cherry Statue Time Capsule, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

WKU Archives Records

Brief description of chapel program to place time capsule in the base of the Henry Cherry Statue on the Western Kentucky University campus. Also includes a list of items to be included in bronze box.

Box Label 1, Western Kentucky University

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Label for the duplicate box housed in the Kentucky Museum created by Mattie McLean. It reads: At the suggestion of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lowe this bronze box was prepared as a duplicate of the one that was placed in the base of the Dr. H.H. Cherry Statue. This contains copies of practically everything that was placed in the original bronze box. Mattie M. McLean.

The duplicate box is actually copper.

Henry Cherry Statue Photograph, Lorado Taft

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Photograph of the statue created by Lorado Taft of Henry Cherry. This image was used in fund raising efforts to pay for the statue.

Total Contributions Made For The Erection Of A Bronze Statue Of President Henry Hardin Cherry, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

List of signatures and contributions paid by faculty and staff to the Cherry Statue fund in 1933.

List Of Contributors, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

List of contributors, many faculty, with signatures and amounts paid for the preliminary carving of the statue by Lorado Taft.