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 Performances by Archie Edwards, Bing Brothers at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1995

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival.  Features blues guitarist Ar...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Audio Visual Material

Label on Case:  Colorlab, #67268, 7/17/15, Appalshop, “COAL CAMP”, 16mm Color Sound Answer Print,...

Coal Camp materials
608: College Students in a Pandemic

Kentucky college students talk about h...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Photographic Material

Herschel Wright and an unidentified man.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

[unclear what the neg # is for the image this note refers to (1620 or 1622). Image is in bottom r...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Possibly Johnnie Ellenberg. See 1620.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
A Day Around the Shop, 1971
Audio Visual Material

Color reversal footage found in collections, labeled "A Day at the Shop, 1971" in Herb E. Smith's...

Appalshop Institutional Records Collection
African American couple with three of their daughters

Exterior of family in front of foliage. Parents are sitting and holding three young daughters on ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Paper and Physical Object

Clippings, reviews, promotional images, screening information related to the distribution of the ...

Paper and other media - Kingdom Come School
Appalshop Family Portrait, 1976
Photographic Material

From left to right & top to bottom:

Right window - Jeff Kiser, Dudley Wilson, unkn...

Appalshop Institutional Records Collection
Appalshop promotional calendar, 1973
Paper and Physical Object

12-month promotional calendar created and published by Appalshop staff in 1973.

Appalshop Institutional Records Collection
Arrangement of colorful flowers
Photographic Material

Photo of garden flowers. Posted with the caption: "Some...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Audio icon

Audio of speech made by Robert F. Kennedy during his February 1968 tour of Eastern Kentucky. Kenn...

Back to School
Photographic Material

"This was our “back to school” shopping. I got my son a new backpack and other new school materia...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Baptist church activities in Bell County, KY (silent)

Video footage (no audio) of river baptisms in Bell County. Includes footage of congregants gather...

Dr. John Parrott Home Movie Collection
BE the Mask!
Photographic Material

"This young man picked up food packs for his family each week of the summer food program. I wish ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Bed of hosta plants next to house

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Big Lever: Party Politics in Leslie County, KY, The

Appalshop documentary on party politics in Letcher County Kentucky.

Label on Spine:  ...

Big Lever: Party Politics in Leslie County, KY, The (full film, preserved in 2019)

Preservation digital access copy of The Big Lever: Party Politics in Leslie County, KY. ...

The Big Lever: Party Politics in Leslie County, KY materials, c.1981
Bottled itch relief medicine
Photographic Material

A bottle of itch remedy product is displayed partially out of its packaging. The label indicates ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Boy Meets Spider
Photographic Material

"Snow crushed our gazebo, but the frame still made a wonderful spider for our grandson." People d...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Boy standing beside large leaf plant

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Breonna Should Be Alive
Photographic Material

"lost my [s--t] when i found out the inimitable ava duvernay interviewed the legendary dr. angela...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Breonna Taylor memorial in front of Whitesburg City Hall

Photo from Black Lives Matter protest in Whitesburg, KY. Shared on Ins...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Audio Visual Material

Label on leaders: Brookside (2 reels), Coal Camp (1 reel). Label on can: Grills/Tiller, Bessy Cor...

Brookside Women
Audio Visual Material

Interview with Betty Eldridge, Minnie Lunsford, and Gussie Mills, who were members of the "Brooks...

Mountain Community Television Collection, 1972-1978

original reversal outtakes for Buffalo Creek Flood Revisited. Label on Can: Appalshop Inc., Orig....

Cancelled Culture
Audio Visual Material

Alyssa Helton interviews Jim Bennett, Brandon ????, and Mitchella Ph...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Car stuck on flooded street
Photographic Material

Several men and a woman surrounding a car stuck on a flooded street outside of a Ford service sho...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Carcassonne Food Program
Photographic Material

"Carcassonne was part of the summer feeding program with the Letcher County Culture Hub , CANE Ki...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Carcassonne Tree 2020
Photographic Material

"Normally, we would have a tree inside the community center, but for the past two years we've pla...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Cars entering into Kentucky along U.S. 23 in Pound Gap

Two cars cross over the state line into Kentucky along U.S. Route 23. A Virginia state line sign ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Cat Poem, November
Electronic Record

"A poem, about a cat and refinishing an old chest, written during the winter of the pandemic." De...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Chase's Concert Band
Photographic Material

A predominantly brass concert band playing musical instruments. Reverse reads "Willie Quillen / W...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Chase's Concert Band group photo

Members of Chase's Concert Band posing for a group photograph outdoors with a building in the bac...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Chemical Valley production still

Mimi Pickering and Anne Lewis seated in a production studio. 

Chemical Valley materials, c.1991
Cherry tomato plant from porch
Photographic Material

Photograph of tomato plant taken from a porch in Whitesburg, KY. Caption: "Waiting on these cherr...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Christmas at Carcassonne
Photographic Material

"In spite of COVID, Carcassonne had a CDC guidelines Christmas Treat Drive-Thru. Over 130 treat b...

Creating in Place Project Collection

Footage of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Bell County, KY.  Includes: corps members seen cutt...

Carl Zody Film Collection
Civilian Conservation Corps in Pine Mountain State Park, 1938 (silent)

Footage of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Bell County, KY.  Includes: corps members seen cutt...

Carl Zody Film Collection
Class Pet
Photographic Material

"This was our “class pet” during homeschooling for the 2020-2021 school year. My son went out and...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Close up of plant with pink flower

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: Edited Sync, 1. Farmer Asher; Label on Front: Jarmer Asher, #1, sync, Edited;

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: #1, B. Blackson Tour; Label on Back: Brookside, Buster Blackson's Tour;

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: B. Blackson's Tour, #2; Label on Top: 2; Label on Back: #2, Buster Blackson's Tou...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: #3, B. B. Tour; Label on Top: 3; Label on Back: #3, Buster Blackson's Tour;

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: #4, B. B. Tour; Label on Top: #4, B.B. Tour; Label on Back: #4, B. B. Tour, Begin...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: #5, BB Tour; Label on Top: #5; Label on Back: BB Tour, #5, Norm Yarborough, appro...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: #3, MFD Rally; Label on Front: 3, MFD, Miller, Miners for Democracy, Kick off Ral...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: #2, MFD Rally; Label on Front: 2, MFD, Miller, Miners for Democracy, Kick off Ral...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: Coal Camp; Label on Front: Nixon's Mistake; Label on Back: Coal Camp, Bessie Corn...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: Carter Brookside, #1, Coal Camp; Label on Front: 1a; Label on Back: Brookside, Rl...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: Carter Brookside, #2 of 5, Coal Camp, Brookside; Label on Front: 2a; Label on Bac...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: Store clerk and traffic, Coal Camp; Label on Back: Coal Camp, Store Clerk, Traf...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine: Coal Camp; Label on Front: Nothing, Your Guess!!, Game; Label on Back: 10/24/73, ...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Can: Coal Camp, WP Tams, Sound, Dirt road trip, School Bus [crossed out] to pickers, Bo...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: Coal Camp

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: stills. B&W print.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: orig. color outs, some Religion, but mainly Coal Camp

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: orig. color, map of land, John L. Lewis

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: orig. color, interviews & misc.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: orig. color outs, company store & Norman Yarborough, Brookside tour

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: slides, misc. reversal.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Box: Coal Camp, black & white stills and color footage of Brookside camp & other abando...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on leader: b&w neg. orig., old photos (used in Stripmining?), roll 2 of 3.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: b&w neg. orig., old photos, roll 1&3 of 3.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: orig. neg. outs. Label on can: Appalachia Projects Committee.

Coal Camp materials
Coal Camp
Audio Visual Material

Appalshop Contract Work, Unreleased Projects and Other Documentation Collection, 1971-2015; Coal Camp materials

Audio Visual Material

Label on can: Farmer Asher.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: Women on porches. Numerous small rolls.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: sync pic & sound, interviews: Yarborough, foremen, men.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Top of Can: Coal Camp, WP & mag., Pony Mine, etc.; Label on Side of Can: Coal Camp; Re...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Top of Can: Coal Camp, John Hinson, work print and mag., Coal Camps; Recanned into 2 20...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Top of Can: Coal Camp, Coal Camp/Brookside, Hobart Grills & John Tiller, work print & m...

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: Brookside Strike footage. Pic & mag.

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on can: Bessy Cornett, sync/interview, Brookside coal camp pic & neg

Coal Camp materials
Audio Visual Material

Label on Spine:  Colorlab, Appalshop, “Coal Camp”, Scene-to-Scene Correction of 16mm Color Pos Pr...

Coal Camp materials
Covid's effect on personal life; excerpt from interview with Amber Bailey

Creating in Place Project Collection

Cups filled with colorful beads on a pineapple tablecloth

Taken by Grace Owsley, age 11, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Daisy the groundhog
Audio Visual Material

"This is a groundhog I befriended in the summer of 2020. I used a motion sensor app on my phone t...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Discussion Guide to the film Belinda
Paper and Physical Object

A discussion booklet for high school students and adults, published by Appalshop and made availab...

Belinda materials, c.1992
Drawing of Spiderman on pineapple tablecloth

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Dumpster behind Paco's Mexican restaurant

View from the porch behind Paco's and Heritage Kitchen in Whitesburg, across the river to the wal...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Employee housing at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital

The north side of the original Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital campus as seen from the e...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Employee housing at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital, angled view

The north side of the original Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital campus as seen from the e...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
End of the Road
Photographic Material

My husband, Josh, trying to figure out how to get our family out of the holler as the water reced...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Enforced separation
Photographic Material

"When the matriarch of the Caudill family broke her leg, she had to stay in a "Skilled Nursing Fa...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Entrance to Kentucky along U.S. 23 in Pound Gap

Landscape photograph of U.S. Route 23 in Pound Gap at the border between Virginia and Kentucky, f...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Virginia Irene "Teenie" Hughes Sanders, left, and Lucille Caroline Mullins.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

"Blue" Eulice Mullins.

Photographic Material

Hamby Hoffman and an unidentified child.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Benjamin C. Potter and Mary "Polly" Hall Potter.

Photographic Material

Standing: Nikitie Potter Anderson. Sitting: Benjamin C. Potter and Mary "Polly" Hall Potter.

Photographic Material

Louise Whitaker.

Photographic Material

Lillie Gibson.

Photographic Material

Berthy Phillips

Photographic Material

Tilda Vanover.

Photographic Material

Carol McPeek at her High school graduation.

Photographic Material

Mabel wright and her younger sister.

Photographic Material

Ed Mullins, left, and unidentified man.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Berthy Phillips, right, and an unknown woman.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Left to right: Hascal Collins, Ralph Collins, Paul Collins.

Photographic Material

Mr. and Mrs. John Haley.

Exterior of Bussell's Grocery and Dry Goods Store

Exterior of Bussell's, a store selling groceries, meat, and dry goods. Two people, one appearing ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of East Jenkins Army Goods Store and Whitaker Music Shop

Two men sit on ledges outside of East Jenkins Army Goods Store and Whitaker Music Shop respective...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of man in WWI uniform holding woman's hand

A man in uniform and a woman pose in front of a building. Reverse reads "Willie Belt and his sist...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Linda Collins materials
Exterior of Messenger Florist shop

A service vehicle for Messenger Florist, Inc., inscribed with the slogan "Flowers for all occasio...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of Whitaker's Cafe
Photographic Material

An exterior shot of Whitaker's Cafe with a bicycle parked in front. The cafe is adjacent to a dre...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Family field day activities in Bell County, KY (silent)

Video footage (no audio) of family field day activity in Bell County, KY. Footage includes a sack...

Dr. John Parrott Home Movie Collection
Family portrait of Darwin and Ota Mullins with seven children

Darwin and Ota Mullins of Jackhorn, Kentucky stand with their seven blond children in front of wh...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Family sitting on porch
Photographic Material

Three people sitting on a bench on a house porch. Identified as Allie Frazier Fields (grandmother...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Father and son sitting on porch
Photographic Material

A man and a boy sharing a chair on the porch of white house. Identified as Raliegh Fields and his...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Gregory Fields materials
Fiddle, built ca. 1900
Paper and Physical Object

Fiddle with floral inlay on tailpiece, built ca. 1900. Owned by Adam Ousley, inherited by John Ha...

Common Heritage Project Collection; John Haywood materials
First Baptist Church congregants, Whitesburg, KY

First Baptist church congregants in coal mining community of Whitesburg, Kentucky.  Multiple gene...

Common Heritage Project Collection
First Sign of Spring
Photographic Material

"Signs of Spring like the early crocus always bring hope for brighter days." Description submitte...

Creating in Place Project Collection
flowers downtown
Photographic Material

"found some gorgeous flowers blooming in an alley downtown" Description submitted by the photogra...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Flyer for an Annual Seedtime Punk Show

Flyer for the annual Youth Bored Seedtime punk show. Line-up of bands: Peter Stubb; Tony Wain and...

Flyer: "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!"
Paper and Physical Object

Description by artist Derek Mullins: "The inside joke was all the different fonts (iron maiden, m...

Youth Bored Music and Art Collection
Four men next to a car
Photographic Material

Three men sitting on and one man standing next to a car. Reverse reads "Taken July 14thLinda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection

Frank Majority: Italian Stone Mason

Profile of Frank Majority, a stone mason of Italian descent living in Eastern Kentucky. Includes ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Gaining the "COVID-19"
Photographic Material

"Sheltering in place means breaking out the recipe files. Thanks to local groceries who offered c...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Garden wildflower bush
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Girl hugging a young boy on lawn

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Girl in t-shirt holding vegetable

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Greyhound bus in East Jenkins
Photographic Material

A Greyhound bus labeled with the destination "Jenkins" drives past Bussell's dry goods store in E...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Group of adults and children posing for photo in Jenkins park

A large group of men, women, and children posing for a photograph in a park. Reverse reads "May -...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Linda Collins materials
Group of people sitting in front of fireplace

Group of men and women sitting in front of a fireplace. Reverse reads "all People in this Picture...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Group of women and children posing for photo

A group of women and children posing for a photograph outdoors. Reverse reads "The Ladies are fro...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Group of women posing outdoors with a building in the background

A group of women posing outdoors with a building in the background. Reverse reads "May 5t...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and family

A group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and his family members: Andy, Alice, Alpha, Alta Mae, Alz...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and family (Banjo Haynes smiling version)

A group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and his family members: Andy, Alice, Alpha, Alta Mae, Alz...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Group posing outside of Bussell's Grocery and Dry Goods Store

Three men and one child pose outside of Bussell's grocery and dry goods store in East Jenkins, Ke...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Hand holding a garden tomato
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Headwaters - extra footage of Mike Seeger at Hazard Nursing Home

Footage of Mike Seeger performing at Roscoe Holcomb's nursing home in Hazard, KY. 

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters:  Reel World String Band

This program features the Reel World String Band, live in studio in Hazard, KY. Includes footage ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: A Tribute to Roscoe Holcomb

Hosted by Jack Wright. This item includes footage from John Cohen's "High Lonesome Sound" and foo...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Bybee Pottery; Charles Engle at Dock Boggs Memorial Festival

This program contains two parts: the first is about the Bybee Pottery studio, operated by the Cor...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Cratis Williams
Audio Visual Material

Appalachian Studies scholar and historian Dr. Cratis Williams discusses the immigration of Scotch...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Five Conversations about Violence

This program is comprised of five different conversations about violence in East Kentucky and Sou...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Audio Visual Material
Headwaters: Gurney Norman
Audio Visual Material

This program is a profile of writer, professor, and documentarian Gurney Norman, from Grundy, VA....

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Into the Shelter - Buckhorn Children’s Center

This program is about the Buckhorn Children’s Center in East KY, a home for children who are eith...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Intro Show, 2nd season

Introduction to / overview of season 2 of Headwaters, hosted by Michael Stamper. 

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Jean Ritchie
Audio Visual Material

This program is about Jean Ritchie, singer and dulcimer player from Viper, KY. Ritchie discusses ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Kennedy Hearings
Audio Visual Material

This program is about Senator Ted Kennedy's visit to East Kentucky in 1983. Includes footage of K...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Lee Sexton
Audio Visual Material

This program is about banjoist, fiddler, and singer Lee Sexton from Letcher County, KY. Includes ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Local Poets
Audio Visual Material

A group of local (East Kentucky) poets reads from their work at the Appalshop building in Whitesb...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Marion Sumner
Audio Visual Material

Opens with a surviving outtake of Jack Wright playing St. Nick; The main program features Marion ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: misc. footage; Mike Seeger at Roscoe Holcomb's nursing home

Includes footage of false starts and of Mike Seeger performing for Roscoe Holcomb and other senio...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Mother Goose
Audio Visual Material

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984

Headwaters: Phebel and Flora Wright with Marion Sumner

In this program, musicians Phebel and Flora Wright are joined in their home in Elkhorn City, KY b...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Women Miners Training

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984

Height of Flood Waters in Whitesburg

Flood waters were at their highest at this time around mid-morning in downtown Whitesburg. Appala...

Community Digital Archive Collection
hey look, the USPS finally upgraded the mail truck!

"the grumman long life vehicle (LLV) has been carrying mail through snow, rain, heat, and gloom s...

Creating in Place Project Collection
High school football game with cheerleaders (silent)

Video footage (no audio) of a high school football game in Bell County, KY, with cheerleading bre...

Dr. John Parrott Home Movie Collection
Highlander Research Center panel at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1998

Panel with Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan, Charles Neblett, and Ethel Caffie-Austin. Topics discusse...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Home movie of women with flower garden; River baptism (silent) (baptism out of focus)

Video footage (no audio) of women standing by a flower garden, followed by footage of a river bap...

Dr. John Parrott Home Movie Collection
Home movies of Christmas morning (silent)

Home movie of a family opening presents on Christmas morning. Focused primarily on gift-opening f...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Carol Baker materials
Home movies of toddler's birthday (silent)

Home movie of an indoors birthday celebration for a young boy. Focused primarily on the boy inter...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Carol Baker materials
House cat
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Ice on the Tanglewood Trail
Photographic Material

"The walking track, aka Tanglewood Trail, is a good place to be no matter the weather." Descripti...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Impact on social life and the service industry; excerpt from interview with Amber Bailey

Creating in Place Project Collection

Photographic Material

James Mullins. " Pictureman" Mullins' son.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

James Mullins. "Pictureman" Mullins' son.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

James Mullins. "Pictureman" Mullins' son.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

James Mullins. Pictureman Mullins' son.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Ralph "Tommy" Tucker with unidentified child.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Ira Dotson and Danny Hodges.

Photographic Material

Mrs. Lenore Hale.

Photographic Material

Loretta Gallion.

Photographic Material

Jean Collins.

Photographic Material

Bea Trent Wright.

Photographic Material

Bea Trent Wright.

Photographic Material

Theda Bentley Childers.

Photographic Material

Imogene Mullins Collier.

Photographic Material

Lillian Parson.

Photographic Material

Loretta Mullins Gallion.

Photographic Material

Sylvia Blankenship Smith.

Photographic Material

Sylvia Blankenship Smith.

Photographic Material

Annette Bullion.

Photographic Material

Annette Bullion.

Photographic Material

Inez Byrd.

Photographic Material

Unidentified woman.

Photographic Material

Unidentified woman.

Photographic Material

Delores Adams Whitaker.

Photographic Material

Delores Adams Whitaker.

Photographic Material

Shirley Durham.

Photographic Material

Lenora Hale.

Photographic Material

Wanda Elliot.

Photographic Material

Mrs. William R. Mullins.

Photographic Material

Carol Sue McCoy Gray.

Photographic Material

Carol Sue McCoy Gray.

Photographic Material

Barbara Pritchard.

Photographic Material

Barbara Pritchard.

Photographic Material

Sylvia Wright.

Photographic Material

Sylvia  Wright.

Photographic Material

Janna Lee Jeanette Flora.

Photographic Material

Ruby Maggard.

Photographic Material

Patty Reed.

Photographic Material

Joyce Sanders at her graduation.

Photographic Material

Opal Davis.

Photographic Material

Opal Davis.

Photographic Material

Rosella Bryant at high school graduation.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Rosella Bryant at high school graduation.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Mary Ann Bentley at high school graduation.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Sylvia Blankenship at high school graduation.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

James Mullins, left, and an unidentified man.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

James Mullins,"Pictureman" Mullins' son, left, and an unidentified man.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Photographic Material

Willard and Ralph Francis with an unidentified man.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior of Messenger Florist shop

Several varieties of houseplants are on display near a street-facing window within Messenger Flor...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior of Messenger Florist shop with view of service car through window

Houseplants are on display inside of Messenger Florist in Whitesburg, Kentucky. A neon sign readi...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior of Temporary Store - Jenkins, Ky. - May 15, 1912.

Postcard depicting the interior of a store with multiple men inside. Front reads "Interior of Tem...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Interior portrait of Arvid, Ethel, and Imogine Mullins

Arvid (left), Ethel (right), and Imogine (top) Mullins pose for a group portrait inside of a stud...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior portrait of couple being married by preacher

Man in U.S. Army uniform and woman in white suit dress being married by an older preacher. A tele...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interview with Anne Caudill about strip mining and activism

Interview with Anne Caudill about strip mining and activism associated with the Appalachian Volun...

Stranger with a Camera materials, c.2000; Post Flood Digitization
Interview with Berea College sophomore Dayjha Hogg (FULL)

Creating in Place Project Collection

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Bessie Cornet describing the conditions at Brookside in the beginnings of the strike, discusses t...

Coal Camp materials
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Bill Hayes, in Viper, KY, discussing the orphan land program, Tennessee Valley Authority.

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Oral history interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield of Dunham, KY.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield (transcript)

Transcript of 1991 oral history interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield. Conducted by Appalsh...

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Women at Brookside, Harlan County, KY discussing life in the coal camps, bath houses, their famil...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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England Asher discussing life in the coal camp, gardening; another man discusses being a coal min...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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Farmer Asher talking about coal mining, changes in the industry, miners' responsibility for accid...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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Frank Cloud talking about conditions in the mines for men and animals, other mining issues.

Coal Camp materials
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Former coal miners Hobart Grills and John Tiller discuss economics, infrastructure, scab labor, a...

Coal Camp materials
Interview with Jerry Johnson about Chevrolet, KY coal camp

Jerry Johnson discussing his early childhood in Harlan County, living in Chevrolet, coal mining, ...

Underground Miner materials
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Jim Stanley discusses the struggle to unionize the coal mines, gun thugs, safety conditions in mi...

Coal Camp materials
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Jim Stanley of Derby, Va. discusses his family's experience being exploited by the coal company, ...

Coal Camp materials
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Jim Stanley discusses the power dynamics in a coal camp, and different people's methods of resist...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Carter discussing coal camps, coal mining, and the changes in community and econo...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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John Carter discussing life in the mountains before the coal mines and railroads, mountaineers, l...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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John Carter discussing self-preservation, income tax law introduction, church denominations, fina...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Hinson is interviewed about life in coal camps, changes throughout time. Slightly...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Hinson of Brookside, KY discussing the inadequate medical care provided by compan...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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John Hinson, at Brookside, Kentucky, discussing labor unions, contracts, and finding work in the ...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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John Hinson [Henson?] discusses working, living in a coal camp, law enforcement, George Titler, p...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Hinson (Brookside, KY) discussing fighting, corruption, labor union safety commit...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Hinson discussing working in the mines, various instances of the danger of mine w...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Hinson discusses working in the mines, being a supervisor, tells stories about di...

Coal Camp materials
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Coal miner John Hinson, Brookside, KY, talking about John L. Lewis, building a big hospital, loca...

Coal Camp materials
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Brookside, KY coal miner John Hinson discusses labor union politics and conflicts.

Coal Camp materials
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A man discussing the struggles of coal miners, death of coal miners, miners' culture, John L. Lew...

Coal Camp materials
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John Tiller, Hobart Grills and an interviewer discuss the Brookside strike and legal action, scab...

Coal Camp materials
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John Tiller and Hobart Grills discuss the battle of Evarts, the labor politics surrounding the ba...

Coal Camp materials; Post Flood Digitization
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Field audio tape of Hobart Grills and John Tiller discussing the different clashes between union ...

Coal Camp materials
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John Tiller discussing working in coal mines. A group of men discuss dangers of coal mining and h...

Coal Camp materials
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Lois Scott discusses union organizing and her personal family experiences with union-related viol...

Coal Camp materials
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Lois Scott discussing the mine wars and resistance to labor unions in Harlan County, trains clack...

Coal Camp materials
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Lois Scott talking about a strike in Benham, Kentucky. She discusses showing up alongside other w...

Coal Camp materials
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Lois Scott talking about family politics, wages, coalmining, UMWA strikes, state police

Coal Camp materials
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A woman discussing union organizing, the changing power structures in the UMWA, Tony Boyle, and d...

Coal Camp materials
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Mrs. Blakley discusses about how word of a mine accident spread in the coal camp, a mine fire tha...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp

Creating in Place Project Collection

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A woman and her boy talking about trading, being raised in Evarts, life in the camps. A woman dis...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
Interview with Visual Art instructor Ashlyn Swihart (FULL)

Ashlyn Swihart is the Visual Art teacher at Knott County Central Hi...

Creating in Place Project Collection
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W.P. Tams Jr. (former coal operator) discussing his career as the owner of a mine, the cultural m...

Coal Camp materials
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W.P. Tams, a former coal operator, discussing unions, John L. Lewis, the death of the coal camp, ...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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W.P. Tams Jr., a former coal operator, talking about the different groups of people in coal camps...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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Former coal operator W.P. Tams, Jr. discussing local history, land grants, the arrival of the rai...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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Former coal operator W.P. Tams Jr. discussing the Virginian Railway, changes in the transportatio...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
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Production staff interviewing women in a coal camp at Brookside, KY about life in the camps, the ...

Coal Camp materials; Field audio recordings - Coal Camp
IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
Photographic Material

"Five months after the first reported COVID-19 death in America, Whitley County lost its first re...

Creating in Place Project Collection
James Wiley Craft Bridge, after flood

James Wiley Craft Bridge with piles of debris left by the currents of the July 2022 flood. The br...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Jenkins Band
Photographic Material

Members of the Jenkins band posing outdoors with instruments. Reverse reads "[in blue ink] Later ...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival, 1938-39 (silent)

Footage of Pineville, KY's Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival. It was shot in 1938 and 1939 by Car...

Carl Zody Film Collection
Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival, 1972

Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival, film donated by Edith Asher. Color/Silent, TRT 7:30

Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival, circa 1949 (silent)

A collection of video footage (no audio) from the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival. Mostly inclu...

Dr. John Parrott Home Movie Collection
Kentucky Mountain Lauren Festival 1972 (silent)

Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival scenes including crowned festival queen being congratulated by ...

Kitten on a porch
Photographic Material

Photo of Roland the kitten perched on an outdoor cat ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Lack of leadership during Covid: excerpt from interview with Amber Bailey

Creating in Place Project Collection

Last Meal in a Restaurant
Photographic Material

"COVID has cancelled all restaurant meals for our family except take-out." Description submitted ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Audio Visual Material

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Audio Visual Material

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Audio Visual Material

Seedtime 1990 Lee Sexton, June 2nd, 1990, 7 1/2 ips, Reel #6, enginnered by Doug Dorshug/Don Muss...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Line of people standing outside store

A large group of men and women standing outside a store. Reverse reads "at East Jenkins, Ky - tak...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Audio Visual Material

"It has been a long hard year, especially when you have to spend it alone And it has been hard no...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Lonesome
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"This is me trying not to be sad, sitting at home by myself has been a rough one for a year, I tr...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Man and child at picnic; Ice, KY, 1922

Inscription on back of image reads: "Church Picnic, Ice, KY (below Whitesburg); 1922; Neon Union ...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman sitting on a bench on the porch of a white house

A man and a woman sitting on a bench on the porch of a white house with a road and other white bu...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman sitting on porch bench

A woman and a man sitting together on a bench on the porch of a white house with a road and anoth...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman standing beside a white house

Man and woman standing outdoors beside a white house. Identified as Watson and Sallie Cornett - g...

Carl Hampton materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman standing in front of house

A man and a woman standing outdoors beside a white house with a highway in the background. Identi...

Carl Hampton materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman standing together on front porch

A man and woman standing together on the front porch of a white house with another white house in...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man in casket with rose floral spray

A deceased man lies in a casket topped with a large rose floral spray. Around the casket are a se...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Man posing outside of Whitaker's Variety Store in East Jenkins

A man poses next to a service vehicle outside of Whitaker's Variety Store (at another point in ti...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Man posing with car in front of Radio TV Clinic in East Jenkins

A man stands next to a service vehicle in front of an East Jenkins business advertising radio and...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Man standing outdoors with a white house in the background

Man standing outdoors with a white house in the background. Identified as Gregory Fields.

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man standing outside building with moonshine at his feet

A man proping himself against the outside of a building with moonshine at his feet. Reverse reads...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Photographic Material

A man throws clay and forms a vase

Kristen Mendenhall Photography Collection
Martha J. Wright funeral announcement
Paper and Physical Object

Funeral announcement for Martha J. "Mother" Wright.

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Men harvesting tobacco (silent)
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Video footage (no audio) of men, including John Parrott, working with tobacco plants.

Dr. John Parrott Home Movie Collection

Clippings, UMWA bumper sticker, artist statements, correspondence
Most needs rehousing to l...

Nancy Rudolph Cumberland Plateau Photography Collection
Monitor on porch railing displays virtual meeting

Photograph of a laptop monitor perched on a porch railing, displaying a virtual church meeting. I...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Morgan Sexton playing his first public performance

Morgan Sexton's first-ever public performance. Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival, 1988.

Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Mother and son sitting on porch
Photographic Material

A woman and a young boy sitting on a bench on the porch of a white house. Identified as Jean Luca...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Mountain tree line
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Mrs. Claus Zooms
Photographic Material

"Meg Caudill of Carcassonne has served as the Louisville Zoo's Mrs. Claus for the past several ye...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Mushrooms on Pine Mountain Trail

"Hiking became a past time during the pandemic. This is (one of many) mushroom photos taken near ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Neon, bird's eye view
Photographic Material

From the family collection of Linda Collins. Photo print in frame of bird's eye view of Neon, KY ...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Neon, flooded Main Street. 1925
Photographic Material

Photograph in a cardboard frame of flooded Main Street in Neon, Kentucky. Men standing in front o...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Linda Collins materials
Newspaper clipping
Paper and Physical Object

Local news clipping on death of Floyd County resident Adam Ousley during invasion of Normandy.  C...

Common Heritage Project Collection; John Haywood materials
Newspaper obituary for John Wesley Wright

From the family collection of Linda Collins.  Headline reads: "Wright Funeral Held at Neon."

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
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