Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
2-5-2020
Abstract
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3504. Letter, 15 August 1922, of Charles A. Richardson, Assistant Geologist, Kentucky Geological Survey, to Dr. Harry B. Thomas, Horse Cave, Kentucky, regarding his recent study of the formations in Mammoth Onyx Cave, then owned by Thomas. He remarks on the “abundance of Mexican Onyx, or Onyx Marble” and the beauty of the stalactites and stalagmites. Includes a pamphlet by Leon Foster with his impressions of the cave, which was opened to the public in 1922.
Disciplines
Geology | Speleology | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Mammoth Onyx Cave - Relating to (SC 3504)" (2020). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4790.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4790
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Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu