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- Attempt by Communists to seize the American labor movement
- Labor unions; Coal miners; Labor unions; Communism
- 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...
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Vardy Church
- Churches; Scenic overlooks;
- On the back is written "First rise of the mountain showing church and Miss Rankins' house. The new house stands back from the road to the right of the church and on the line of the rail fence shown. Newman's Ridge in the background. ...
- King College
- Reply to John Mitchell
- Coal miners; Coal miners; Labor unions; Labor unions; Coal miners
- 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.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Miner's lunch bucket
- Pails; Pails
- A lunch bucket traditionally carried by coal miners. Shown here disassembled into lid, top compartment, and carrying bucket.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Dear Sister (Oct. 14, 1862)
- Civil War; Correspondence
- A letter from Watson Bunten to his sister, purportedly Sirene Bunten, written from Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tennessee.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Woman's Edition of The New Dominion - Volume 30, Number 37 - Dec. 30, 1896
- Women; Newspapers
- Dec. 30, 1896 magazine. Includes articles on area church histories, society news, school histories, and local news, as well as advertisements from area businesses.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- The Old Regular Baptist
- Religion; Religious events; newspapers
- 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.
- University of Pikeville
- Pikeville College Diary of a Flood
- 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...
- University of Pikeville
- Group on Division Street, Pikeville, KY
- cities; streets
- On back of photo: "Circa 1903 -- Store bldg. at corner of Main & Divison St. -- C.C. (Bigger) Bowles at left, H. Pauley seated in door - clerk in this store (Call Bros. Hdwe [Hardware] as shown by sign. Circa 1903 -- Other men? -- ...
- University of Pikeville
- William Sherman Bevins
- hunting; genealogy;
- William Sherman Bevins, holding lantern, was the son of James and Susan Porter Bevins. He was born just below the mouth of the Rockhouse Fork of Big Creek. He served at various times as a United States Marshall, and a Baldwin-Felts detective, and...
- University of Pikeville
- Royal Rosboro
- colleges; Nature; people; utilities buildings
- Royal Rosboro is shown here with another unidentified person at the steam plant during a big snow storm.
- Milligan College
- Milligan College: Hardin Hall
- colleges; buildings;
- In this photo, Hardin Hall is shown in 1922.
- Milligan College
- Buffalo Creek
- colleges; nature; creeks; floods
- Buffalo Creek is shown in 1935 while the water was high.
- Milligan College
- Daniel Boone Trail / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
- Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail.; Boone, Daniel -- 1734-1820.; Pioneers; Cumberland Gap (Tenn.) -- History.; Cumberland Mountains -- History.;
- In September 1927, various members of the Boone Family Association traveled along the Boone Trail from Asheville, N.C. to Boonesborough, KY. On September 3, they stopped and studied the artifacts at Lincoln Memorial University, set up as an...
- Lincoln Memorial University
- The Smith-Hughes 'show boat'" / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
- Agricultural extension work -- Tennessee -- Harrogate -- Study and teaching. ; Grannis, Frank C.; Lincoln Memorial University. Smith-Hughes Program.
- An article from the "Mountain Herald" about the Smith-Hughes Department of Lincoln Memorial University, to promote agricultural extension services "to the remote districts of the mountains, to rural schools, to small communities and...
- Lincoln Memorial University
- Our Carolina Highlanders
- Education
- 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.
- Lees-McRae College
- 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
- Story of a Cherokee Family
- Indians of North America
- The author's retelling of a story passed down to him, dealing with the fate of a Cherokee Indian family and the subsequent desecration of their graves by U.S. soldiers.
- Lees-McRae College
- Mary J. Rankin and children
- Family Trees; Melungeons
- Ms. Rankin had been kept ;busy in those first years in Vardy. She is shown here with a few of the children she had delivered during that time. Those known are Cecil and Claribel Miser and Isabelle Horton.
- King College
- Mahalia Collins Mullins
- Family Trees; Melungeons
- Great, great, great, great Aunt Mahalia Collins Mullins shown here with elephantiasis is the legendary Melungeon moonshiner of Newman's Ridge.
- King College

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