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Collection Overview
Title: Appalachian Photographic Archives, 1898-1965
Extent: 4.0 MS boxes
Arrangement: The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Subjects: Appalachian Region., Architecture -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works., Industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works, Landscape -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works., Mountain people -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works., Photograph collections., Schools -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works.
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Black and white photographic prints of various sizes, some with dates and/or notations, preserved for their relevance to Appalachia.
Note: A small number of the images are dated. Otherwise dates are approximate or no date is given.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Accruals:
Berea College Library staff originally filed these photographs in mixed vertical files on Appalachian subjects. The photographs were later gathered into a separate collection. The original sources for most of the photographs are unknown, though Berea College professor James Watt Raine initials appear on a number of the items. Some of the photographs were originally part of a survey of rural schools or photographs from the Bureau of Mines, US Department of the Interior.
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions:
Unless otherwise noted, there are no restrictions other than federal copyright regulations. Please cite collection.
Preferred Citation:
[Object identification], Appalachian Photoarchives Collection, 1900-1955, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, KY.
Processing Information:
Finding guide updated July 2019 to reflect reordering and addition of folders not priviously added to finding guide. Descriptions of photographs updated July 2019.
Other Note:
Collection Number: BCA 0070 SAA 070
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Agriculture
- Hemp, horse and plow, corn fields, working in corn fields
- Folder 2: Anglin Falls
- Berea Area
- Folder 3: Animals
- Horses, cows, plowing with oxen,
- Folder 4: Antiquities
- Farming tobacco, bringing cow to Berea College, "The Old Boone Rock," making sorghum, guns, saddle bags, other instruments, other
- Folder 5: Appalachian Colleges and Universities
- Berry College, Mt. Berry, Ga.
- Folder 6: Appalachian Feuds
- One photograph of a town involved in a feud
- Folder 7: Appalachian Mountains - Southern
- Photographs on card showing "Early days in Kentucky"
- Folder 8: Appalachian Industries
- Working in flax, mills, corn mill, wooden barge on Staton Camp Creek (Estill Co. KY), grist mill, home industries, chair making, splitting boards, using homemade turning lathe, sorghum making, bee keeping, apple drying, other
- Folder 9: Architecture
- Numerous photographs of buildings built in different styles/made of various materials
- Folder 10: Artifact
- Kitchen sink and pump
- Folder 11: Asheville, NC
- One postcard
- Folder 12: Blacks
- African Americans
- Folder 13: Boone Trail Highway
- Highway marker presented at Berea College, rock chiseled by Daniel Boone's brother (Squire 1770) (now at Richmond KY Court House)
- Folder 14: Boone, Daniel
- Postcard
- Folder 15: Breathitt County, KY
- Family photograph, portrait of Addie Lions
- Folder 16: Bridges
- Folder 17: Ceremony
- Baptisms in creeks/ponds
- Folder 18: Children
- Folder 19: Churches
- Folder 20: Coal Mining
- General
- Folder 21: Coal Mining: Bureau of Mines Photographs, n.d., 1950s-1960s
- US Department of the Interior, Mining Equipment
- Folder 22: Coal Mining: Bureau of Mines Photographs, n.d., 1965, 1960s
- US Department of the Interior, Federal Inspectors
- Folder 23: Coal Mining: Bureau of Mines Photographs, n.d., 1960s
- US Department of the Interior, Experimental Mine, Bruceton, PA
- Folder 24: Coal Mining: Bureau of Mines Photographs, Nov 1954
- US Department of the Interior, Mine Explosion, Jamison No. 9, Farmington, WV
- Folder 25: Coal Mining: Seco, KY, n.d.; 1950s-1960s
- Coal town
- Folder 26: Courts
- Magistrate court, courts held outside, other
- Folder 27: Creeks and Streams: Elizabeth Branch
- Folder 28: Floyd County
- Logging on river, Lee Hall Jr's store and Witt's Shoes
- Folder 29: Folk Art
- Basket making, needlepoint, other
- Folder 30: Forests and Forestry
- Folder 31: Frenchburg School
- Folder 32: Handicrafts, 1898, n.d.
- Basket making, weaving, working with flax, spinning yarn/wool, warping, making sorghum, washing wood, other
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Hazard, KY
- Folder 2: Hindman, KY, n.d., 1914
- Hindman Settlement School, still in cave, other
- Folder 3: History-General
- Cards from historical sites, other
- Folder 4: Hyden, KY
- Folder 5: Jackson Co., KY
- McKee, other
- Folder 6: Johnson Co. KY
- Coalminer, group on horse-drawn wagon
- Folder 7: Knott Co., KY
- Folder 8: Knox Co, KY
- Postcard with courthouse
- Folder 9: Landscapes
- Rivers, ponds, falls, farms, others
- Folder 10: Leslie Co., KY
- Folder 11: Liquor Problems/Moonshine Stills
- Folder 12: Log Cabins
- Interiors and exteriors, some with people
- Folder 13: Lumber and Lumbering
- Folder 14: Madison County, KY
- Downtown Richmond, KY, East Pinnacle (postcard)
- Folder 15: Mail, Nov 1958
- Mail delivery on horseback from Evelyn to New Zion (Mr. Herbert McQueen in front of Gray's Grocery)
- Folder 16: Maps
- Folder 17: Molasses/Sorghum Making
- Folder 18: Mountain People
- Different poses and activities
- Folder 19: Mountain People
- Different poses and activities
- Folder 20: Murphy, N.C.; Cherokee County, c.1900
- Folder 21: Music
- Frenchburg College Band, families playing music, musicians with instruments
- Folder 22: Musical Instruments
- Folder 23: Owsley County, KY
- Card with photograph
- Folder 24: Parks, Monuments, Museums (KY)
- Folder 25: Pike County, KY
- Folder 26: Pine Mountain Settlement School, c.1940s-1950s, n.d.
- Sigma Phi Gamma Building Dedication, students, buildings, grounds
- Folder 27: Plant: Mertensia
- Viginia cowslip or bluebells
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Portraits, c.1900-1910, n.d.
- Folder 2: Portraits, c.1900-1910, n.d.
- Folder 3: Portraits, 1900
- Davis, Sam and Family
- Folder 4: Poverty: Office of Economic Opportunity
- Headshot of Hyman Bookbinder
- Folder 5: Powell County, KY
- Folder 6: Pulaski County, KY, 1947, 1940s, n.d.
- Events, town, buildings
- Folder 7: Railroads, c.1910
- Steam engine railroad cut
- Folder 8: Religion, .d., 1940, c.1900, 1916
- Family on one horse going to church, baptisms in river/lake, churchyards, baptizing in Rockcastle County, baptism with town and car train in background, Potter's Chapel (Clay Co.), mountain graveyard with old English style of burial, mountain preachers, union of community church, baptism gathering at Scaffold Cane, other
- Folder 9: Renfro Valley, KY
- Christmas concert and children's party
- Folder 10: Roads, n.d., c.1900s-1920s
- Including areas around Berea and Scaffold Cane, building of roads, persons/horses/wagons on roads, Scaffold Cane Pike, Hangman's Tree, other
- Folder 11: Rockcastle County, KY
- Folder 12: Rural School Improvement Project, n.d., 1944,
- School buildings, classrooms with teachers and students, Tom Bird School, other
- Folder 13: Scenes and Views, 1925, 1929, 1930s, n.d.
- Folder 14: Schools, n.d., c.1900s-1950s, 1952, 1954
- Interiors and exteriors, with students and teachers, Silver Creek School, one-room schoolhouses, groups of children, Beulah Mountain Orphanage Bus with children and adults
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Schools and Community Centers, n.d.
- Access Restriction: School on Honest Fork, mountain schools, students in front of schools, children, Clover Bottom, boys in classroom learning to sew on sewing machines, boys and girls in workshop/woodshop, Perry Co. school house, other
- Folder 2: Schools and Community Centers: Big Hill
- Access Restriction: Portraits of Adelia Fox
- Folder 3: Schools and Community Centers: Buckhorn School, n.d., 1926
- Folder 4: Schools and Community Centers: Hazel Green Academy, n.d. c.1970s
- Students in various activities
- Folder 5: Schools and Community Centers: Henderson Settlement School, 1971-1973
- Students in various activities, 4-H Club
- Folder 6: Schools and Community Centers: Highland Institute, n.d.
- Guerrant, Breathitt County, KY; postcard with Bill Moyers and Myles Horton
- Folder 7: Schools and Community Centers: Homeplace Community Center, 1933
- Hazard, Perry County, KY
- Folder 8: Schools and Community Centers: Morris Fork Presbyterian Church and Community Center
- Morris Fork, Breathitt County, KY
- Folder 9: Schools and Community Centers: Narrow Gap, KY, c.1890s
- "An outpost Sunday School in Narrow Gap," Berea student on horseback inspecting one room schoolhouse, primitive mountain school
- Folder 10: Schools and Community Centers: Oneida Institute
- Big Creek, Oneida, Clay County, KY
- Folder 11: Schools and Community Centers: Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, Rabun Gap, GA, 1933, n.d.
- Folder 12: Schools and Community Centers: Red Bird Settlement School
- Beverly, Bell County, KY; Red Bird Mission Bookmobile with librarian (postcard), other
- Folder 13: Schools and Community Centers: Silver Creek School
- Folder 14: Schools and Community Centers: Tennessee
- Folder 15: Sorghum Making
- Folder 16: Spinning Wheel
- Folder 17: Springs: Slate Lick
- Folder 18: Stills/Moonshine Still
- Folder 19: Study: Vista in the Blueridge Mountains
- With women in the photograph
- Folder 20: Tennessee, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Great Smoky Mountains Natioinal Park
- Postcards, Clinch River, Cove Creek Dam, other
- Folder 21: Townscapes
- Folder 22: Transportation, Pre-1900, c.1911, n.d.,
- River barges, covered wagons, buggies, horseback, sleighs (pulled by horse/oxen), femaile students on way to Berea College on horseback, locomotion/train, wagon, automobile, car, Mount Vernon/Merritt Bend, bridges (foot/other), flat bottom boat, other
- Folder 23: Transportation
- Postcard: "From Hazard, Ky. To California. Filmore McIntosh Covered Wagon;" early truck, horse-drawn wagon, horse pulling sleigh, jeep, barge, other
- Folder 24: York, Alvin
- Folder 25: Women, n.d., 1900-1930s
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