Overall: The porcelain bottle in shape of seated "hillbilly" figure holding jug and gun. A Kansas liquor stamp is located the on left arm and a US revenue stamp is located on the back of the figure's hat. The decanter is in its original...
Overall: The porcelain bottle in shape of seated "hillbilly" figure holding jug and gun. A Kansas liquor stamp is located the on left arm and a US revenue stamp is located on the back of the figure's hat. The decanter is in its original...
Pottery -- Appalachian Region; Pottery -- North Carolina
Churn, earthenware, albany-slip-glaze. 13.75" height, 7.8"
mouth diameter, 9" max diameter, 8.5" base diameter. Now
item 1981.2.1b in the Berea College Appalachian Artifacts
Collection. Lid is 1981.2.1a shown in item...
The mill has a chestnut wood base with a tarnished steel crank located on its top. The metal has turned brown in color. The mill also has a pull out drawer for easy coffee removal. The mill has been well used and the base features a split in the...
This series of six articles was prepared by the United Mine Workers of America, disclosing the attempt that is being made by the Red forces, under the direct supervision of Moscow, to seize control of the organized labor movement of America and use...
Contains letters by Eugene V. Debs and John Mitchell published in the Social Democratic Herald concerning the averted strike in 1904 of the United Mine Workers of America.
World War II; Soldiers; Tennessee Wesleyan College
3" x 5" black and white photograph (now, sepia) of Sgt.
Robert L. Dew, a soldier in World War II, having his shoes shined by an "Arab" child [unknown]. On the back of the photo is written, " Robert sent a little Kodak...
This is a newspaper printed by the Old Regular Baptists at Millstone, Kentucky. This is volume 2, whole number 20, number 8, and was printed in September 1925. It has letters, editorial, and obituaries.
This photograph of the township of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee was taken facing east. Main Street is parallel to the viewer, to the right of center. Railroad tracks travel north-south in the lower portion of the photo. Written below the railroad...
A young girl stands in front of a tree trunk beside the base of a covered bridge built across Jack's Creek in Patrick County, Virginia. The branches of the tree cover the roof of the bridge.
One man holds the twisted burlap sack of molasses while a man and woman squeeze two sticks together at the base of the twist to force the molasses through the sack into a crock. This strains impurities from the molasses. Other people stand behind...
Green Wade kneels down in the woods beside a ginseng plant with red berries. Wade holds long stick in his right hand and holds the base of a ginseng plant with his left. A rail fence is visible in the background.
Pottery -- Appalachian Region; Pottery -- North Carolina
Churn with lid, earthenware, albany-slip-glaze. Churn base
is borken, shown reassembled. Now item 1981.2.7 in the
Berea College Appalachian Artifacts Collection.
Jug, earthenware, albany-slip-glaze. 11.5" height, 0.7"
mouth diameter, 7.4" base diameter. Cracks and chips at
bottom. Now item 1981.2.6 in the Berea College Appalachian
Artifacts Collection.
Jar with handle, earthenware, albany-slip-glaze. 5.8"
height, 3.8" top diameter, 3.7" base diameter. May have one
time had a lid, might be a small churn. Now item 1981.2.3
in the Berea College Appalachian Artifacts Collection.