Photograph of men with tools, posed outside Ritter Hall at Tennessee Wesleyan College. Some of the tools in the photograph are saws, squares, brushes, level, masonry tools, and hammer.
newspapers; floods; disasters; college towns; colleges
This is a special edition paper printed by Pikeville College in the aftermath of the Flood of 1977. While its purpose was to seek funding for the college after the crisis, this paper also relates first-hand accounts of the flood and how it...
Text of an address to the Conference of Southern Mountain
Workers, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 29, 1916, regarding
education and economic development in Western North
Carolina.
Close up phot of Evie Shelton preparing to rub a handful of salt onto a ham she holds up in her left hand. Shelton works outside on a wood bench next to a rail fence. Other hams lean upright against fence and lay on the bench. Part of a larger...
Evie Shelton stands outside next to a rail fence and a workbench. A rectangular box of salt lays on the bench beside four large hams. Shelton rubs salt onto another ham she holds by her left hand. Part of a larger series of photos on ham...
Rufus Duncan stands behind the frame of a stool outside in front of his workshop. He leans over the stool as he weaves a seat out of wood splits. Other chairs are stacked up outside around Duncan. Part of a series of photos on chair making in...
Turner Boyd stands behind a small, square tub placed outside in front of a workshop. A fire is lit under the tub and steam rises from the water in the tub. Boyd holds a bundle of thin strips of wood into the boiling water. Palmer's note with the...
Three women sew as they sit and stand around a quilting frame set up outside. A little girl stands on a small chair and leans over the quilting frame. Spools of thread and a small sewing box lay on top of the quilt. Part of a series of photos on...
Two men and a group of women spread a piece of quilt backing across a wooden quilting frame set up outside in front of an outbuilding. Part of a series of photos on quilting at Lera Rakes' home on Turkey Cock Creek.
A group of women sit in chairs placed around a wooden quilting frame set up outside. The women sew the quilt stretched across the frame. Part of a series of photos on quilting at Lera Rakes' home on Turkey Cock Creek.
An older woman sits on a chair outside with a plate of food on her lap. Woman's head is turned away from the camera. Part of a series of photos of a quilting party at Charity Community Center in Franklin County, VA.
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.