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- Man nails wood shingle to roof
- Buildings; Agricultural facilities; Equipment; Woodwork
- Newton Hylton nails a wooden shingle or shake onto the roof of a log outbuilding with a hammer. Part of a larger series of photos on handmade wood shakes.
- Ferrum College
- Repaired wood shingle roof
- Agricultural facilities; Buildings
- Close up photo of a patch of new wood shingles or shakes on the roof of a log outbuilding. Part of a larger series of photos on handmade wood shakes with Newton Hylton.
- Ferrum College
- Dilapidated house with overgrown yard
- Dwellings; Buildings
- A log or board house in poor physical condition stands in a clearing overgrown with grass and weeds. Part of the front of the house has caved in. Palmer titled this photo: "Log Cabin near Indian Creek -- Jack Cox with me."
- Ferrum College
- Farm buildings
- Agriculture; Agricultural facilities; Fences
- Photo of barns and outbuildings in a fenced lot on the side of a hill. This photo is not a Palmer original. It was taken by Willard Van Dyke. Location is not verified, although Palmer titled this picture "Valley Farm near Floyd, VA."
- Ferrum College
- Shed or outbuilding on farm in Copper Valley, Virginia
- Buildings; Agricultural facilities
- Photo of a one-room shed or outbuilding made of boards and a wood shingle or shake roof. Wood poles lean against the front and sides of the building to keep it from falling down.
- Ferrum College
- Barn in the process of collapsing
- Barns; Buildings; Agricultural facilities
- A barn in a grassy clearing in the final stages of collapse. The building leans sharply to the left, the doors stand open, and the wood shingle roof is warped.
- Ferrum College
- Woman makes soap
- Buildings; Equipment; Household soap
- Mrs. Midkiff dumps pieces of lard or hog fat from a metal pan into an iron kettle. A fire is built beneath the kettle; steam rises from the kettle. An axe handle is visible in the foreground, and a grubbing hoe leans against a log building in the...
- Ferrum College
- Woman boils soap
- Household soap; Buildings; Agricultural facilities
- Mrs. Midkiff stands over a kettle of cooking soap, stirring the contents of the kettle with a wooden pole. A log building is visible behind Mrs. Midkiff. Part of a larger series of photos on soap making.
- Ferrum College
- End of a log house
- Dwellings; Buildings
- Side or end wall of a log house in poor physical condition. The foundation stones and boards are missing and there is no chinking between the logs. The wooden shutter over the window is closed. Palmer's note with photo attributed ownership of...
- Ferrum College
- Back corner of log house
- Dwellings; Buildings; Animals
- Back and side exterior walls of a log house in disrepair. There is no chinking between the logs of the house, and no stone or board foundation. A wood shutter leans on its hinges on the back window. A cat crouches on a tire that lays to the...
- Ferrum College
- Outhouse and chain link fence
- Buildings; Fences
- Photo of an outhouse with its door open; bench and seat visible inside. A chain link fence is visible on the hill behind the outhouse. Palmer's title for the photo is "Roy Dehart's outdoor toilets."
- Ferrum College
- Two outhouses in the woods
- Buildings
- Two outhouses stand together at the edge of the woods with a path in the grass leading between the buildings. The larger building in the back has holes cut out of the boards beside and above the door. Palmer's title for the photo is "Roy...
- Ferrum College
- Small log cabin beside dirt road
- Dwellings; Roads
- A small log house with a steep wood shingle roof stands beside a dirt road. An open pole frame or structure abuts the house on the left side. Palmer's note with the photo reads, "Mountain cabin south side Blue Ridge near Reynolds Handy's...
- Ferrum College
- Jack's Creek bridge and church
- Bridges; Churches; Roads
- A covered bridge spans a creek behind a guard rail along the side of a road. A white church sits on the hill above the road and bridge. The covered bridge is Jack's Creek Bridge and the church is Jack's Creek Primitive Baptist Church.
- Ferrum College
- Methodist Episcopal Church: Brief history of the Annual Sessions continuing after the Eleventh Session in 1860 until the Seventeenth session in 1870.
- Methodist; church and state; church history; churches; church records; religion; religious communities; Christianity
- This document is a transcription of the hand-written pages by S.C. Shaw (original pages available for viewing at Schoenbaum Library Archives) documenting the history of the Annual sessions of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) after the 11th...
- University of Charleston
- Petition of imprisoned mine workers in Mingo County, W.V., to the Supreme Court of Appeals, August 1921
- mining; labor; laborers; incarcerating; coal; coal mines; mining towns; legal correspondence; West Virginia
- This document pertains to the West Virginia Mine Wars of the Early 20th Century. The letter is a petition of imprisoned mine workers in Mingo County, W.V. To the Supreme Court of Appeals on August 10, 1921. The workers claim that they have been...
- University of Charleston
- Proclamation of extension of martial law in Mingo County and organizing of Milita by West Virginia Governor Ephraim F. Morgan, June 27, 1921
- mining; coal; coal mines; labor; laborers; West Virginia; legal correspondence; legislation;
- This document concerns the Mine War that occurred in West Virginia in the early part of the 20th century, when workers struggled against mine owners for the right to join labor unions. This document is a copy of a typewritten document issued by...
- University of Charleston
- Proclamation by President Warren G. Harding of August 30, 1921 regarding state of insurrection in West Virginia and committing to providing military aid.
- presidential papers; legislation; mining; coal; coal mines; West Virginia; labor; laborers
- This document is a copy of a Proclamation of President Warren G. Harding, declaring the insurrection in West Virginia unlawful, and entreating the residents of the rioting counties to return to their homes by midnight of September 1, 1921. The...
- University of Charleston
- Petition of imprisoned mine worker, William B. Coleman, to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
- mining; mining towns; labor; laborers; coal; coal mining; incarcerating; legal correspondence; West Virginia
- This document concerns the Mine War that occurred in West Virginia in the early part of the 20th century, when workers struggled against mine owners for the right to join labor unions. This is a petition from William B. Coleman, an admitted mine...
- University of Charleston
- Blind Slave in the mines (pamphlet)
- slavery; slaves; religion; religious texts; coal; coal mines; mining; Christianity
- A religious tract published by the American Tract Society entitled "Blind Slave in the mines". The author visited an Eastern Virginia mine and interacted with an old man, a blind slave, and was struck by the man's piety and perceives...
- University of Charleston