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- Enforcement of the School Law
- Child labor
- Description of a visit to the Asheville, North Carolina, area to investigate compliance with child labor laws.
- Lees-McRae College
- Woman and child quilting
- Quilting; Textiles; Equipment; Children
- A little girl stands on a small chair next to a quilt stretched over a wooden frame. The girl leans over the quilt, and appears to be sewing. A woman sits in a chair beside the girl. Spools of thread and a small sewing box lay on the quilt...
- Ferrum College
- Waxford Girl; Wexford Girl;
- Banjo Music--Kentucky; Songs--Appalachian Region; Songs, English--Kentucky; Carpenter, Nora; Waxford Girl; Wexford Girl
- Song sung, played on banjo, and recorded by Nora Carpenter at her home in Salyersville, Maggoffin County, Kentucky 07-07-72.
- Berea College
- See My Girl Later
- Fiddle music; Walker, Sammy; See My Girl Later;
- Fiddle tune played by Sammy Walker and accompanied by Nell Walker Fernandez, recorded by Bruce Greene in Summer Shade, Kentucky, on 02-06-76
- Berea College
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- Blues music; Guitars; Singing;
- Walter and Ethel, an elder married couple, perform at the Asheville Junction. Walter, born in 1896, plays guitar while he and Ethel sing. This is a rare example of traditional blues in Asheville.
- Warren Wilson College
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- Blues music; Guitars; Singing;
- Walter Phelps (born in 1896) plays guitar and sings with his wife, Ethel, at the Asheville Junction, founded by Andy Cohen. Walter played with Rev. Gary Davis in their youth.
- Warren Wilson College
- Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
- Ballads;
- Sheila Adams sings in her Madison County home for Wayne Erbsen.
- Warren Wilson College
- Oh Little Girl, You Better Get Home
- Singing;
- Leonard Westmoreland sings in his home in Canton, North Carolina, for an interview by David Holt. Leonard worked as a cowboy in the 1920's.
- Warren Wilson College
- Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
- Ballads;
- Dellie Chandler Norton sings to a ballad singing class at Warren Wilson College. Dellie is from Madison County, North Carolina.
- Warren Wilson College
- Lord Thomas
- Ballads;
- Viola Cole sings a tragic love ballad for Kip Lornell. She learned most of the ballads she sings from her mother who learned them from Viola's grandmother. This interview takes place in her Carroll County home.
- Ferrum College
- Girl learns to quilt
- Quilting; Textiles; Children
- An older woman guides a little girl's hand as she stitches a section of a quilt. Another woman quilts beside the girl. Part of a series of photos of a quilting party at Charity Community Center in Franklin County, VA.
- Ferrum College
- Farewell Miss Angeline
- Banjos; Singing;
- Clarence Tross sings and plays the banjo for interviewer, Roddy Moore. This takes place at his home in Durgon, West Virginia, in Hardy County.
- Ferrum College
- I've Always Been a Rambler
- Guitars; Singing;
- Spence Moore sings and plays guitar during an interview with Kip Lornell. He moved from eastern Tennessee to Konnarock, Virginia in 1945.
- Ferrum College
- Farewell to Miss Angeline
- Banjos; Singing;
- Clarence Tross plays the banjo and sings on the porch of his neighbor's house, in order to use their electricity for the recording equipment. This takes place in Durgon, West Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Girl I Left Behind Me
- Renfro Valley Barn Dance ; Radio Programs--Kentucky; Country Music--Kentucky; Country Musicians--Kentucky; WLW (Radio Station: Cincinnat, Ohio); Girl I Left Behind Me; Miller, Slim; Fiddle music; Girl I Left Behind Me;
- Fiddle tune played by Slim Miller on the Renfro Valley Barn Dance originating from Renfro Valley, Kentucky over Cincinnati radio station WLW 4-26-41.
- Berea College
- Brown Girl in the Ring (talking)
- Singing; Slavery; Games;
- Bessie Jones teaches a slave game to students in Greenville, South Carolina. This was attended and recorded by a high school group from Paideia school in Atlanta, led by John Sundale. Listen to Brown Girl in the Ring: ww14518.
- Warren Wilson College
- Unidentified girl
- Portrait photographs; Girls
- Unidentified girl
- Milligan College
- Robert Todd Lincoln; Girl Scouts / [unknown]
- Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.) -- History.; Rector,Maggie Mae.; Jones, W.I..; Howard, Clarence H..; Irwin, Zenna.
- The article: "Robert Todd Lincoln," features a facsimile letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Dr. John Wesley Hill, dated February 5, 1925 in response to an invitation by Lincoln Memorial University to attend a celebration of Lincoln's...
- Lincoln Memorial University
- The story of a mountain girl / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs.; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.)
- An article from the "Mountain Herald," about the memories and experiences of a mountain girl with ambition to get a college education, eventually arriving at Lincoln Memorial University. She discusses funerals and burials, as well as...
- Lincoln Memorial University
- Dream of the Miner's Child
- Folk songs
- Words to an Appalachian folk song.
- Lees-McRae College