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The Bridge Between Beauty And Functionality, Justin R. Vander Werff
The Bridge Between Beauty And Functionality, Justin R. Vander Werff
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"While our human creatureliness and limited understanding often lead us to pit form and function against each other, God provides glimpses of their unity."
Posting about balancing aesthetics and practicality in design from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/the-bridge-between-beauty-and-functionality/
Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3308. Specifications, including sketches, for the construction of a bridge across Skaggs Creek in Barren County, Kentucky. The detailed specifications as to design, dimensions, materials, and method of construction were prepared by a commission appointed by the Barren County Court. Unable to secure a bid to erect the bridge for the appropriated sum of $1,000, the commission recommended an additional appropriation in order to accept a bid of $1,200.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1328. Letters, written by South Union, Kentucky Shaker leaders, to leaders of the Hancock Shaker Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, discussing the building of mills and dam, economic conditions, and religious affairs. The original letters are in the Library of Congress.
Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sabin Collection (Mss 260), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 260. Letterbook containing correspondence of railroad engineer, Alpheus T. Sabin. Of particular note is information about railroad stations built in Louisville, Kentucky and Memphis, Tennessee. Also includes a store account book from Princeton, Kentucky, 1882-1885, and a small diary kept by Mrs. E.R. Sabin related to Princeton social life, 1890.