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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 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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