2971 objects

Headwaters Dub for the Wild World of Hasil Adkins. Label on Reel: Hasil Adkins, Appalshop, 27:30,...

Exterior of Wilbur Memorial United Methodist Church in Tazewell County, VA. Carlos Hess, Pastor. 

Black and white photograph of a man [Lee Sexton] playing a banjo. 

New track print made from optical track neg at Cineric, 3/30/2006.

Duplicate negative picture for Whitesburg Epic. Dupe neg (original). Label on original can: "Whit...

Restored soundtrack. Created from original optical track neg. 3 tracks: Mono flat EQ non Dolby; M...

Fine grain master for Whitesburg Epic. A-wind fine grain master from original dupe neg.

A view of the original Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital as seen from the northeast side o...

A view of the original Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital as seen from the northeast side o...

A white Christmas is always special, but this year it was almost an omen that the worst was over,...

"A white Christmas is always special, but this year it was almost an omen that the worst was over...

Master for Whippin' the Devil. Label on Cassette: Whippin’ The Devil, Master, From Fincal Cut Pro...

Creating in Place Project Collection

AMI 2010 Media Lab - A teacher talks about attending college, learning German, and her experience...

"Working from home during quarantine with my assistant Charlie." Description submitted by the pho...

On Nov. 7, 1980, five coal miners were killed in a methane gas explosion at Westmoreland Coal Com...

A poetry reading at Appalshop by Wendell Berry, audio recorded August 10, 1984. 

Wendell Berry reads selections of his poetry.

Wendell Berry @ Appalshop -  reading of  "July 1773",  explains how watersheds work, reads poem "...

Photograph of Well's Chapel Church in southwest Virginia.

Exterior of Well's Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Lee County, VA. 

"Welcome to Dragalachia" gives viewers a close look at drag queen culture in rural Appalachia. Fa...

Black and white photograph of a man and woman. 

Black and white photograph of a mill. 

Black and white photograph of a mill. 

Black and white photograph of a mill. 

Black and white photograph of a person scopping a handful of grain from a burlap sack. 

Black and white photograph of a mill and a creek or stream. 

Black and white photograph of a table full of corn cobs. 

Black and white photograph of a stack of burlap sacks filled with flour or grain. 

Black and white photograph of a mill. 

Contact sheet of production stills including images of production staff, a mill, and a group of p...

Label on Spine: Waterground; Label on Front: Waterground, dub from 3/4” Master, made @ Appalshop,...

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

Flood waters were raging along North Fork of the Kentucky River, making a separate river out of J...

Warren Wright discusses his research on what he calls The Big Steal, that is, the unlawful acquis...

WWII war ration book owned by Virginia Ousley, grandmother of donor John Haywood. Ration books co...

Three waitresses in uniform make eye contact with the camera from behind a lunch counter. One sea...

"had a great time at the transgender clinic today! Dr. Fallin-Bennett is SO AMAZING, and so is he...

Seedtime Live Recordings, 1989 Wade and Julia Mainer, 1) I Can't Sit Down, 4 tunes, Janette and J...

"The photo shows what it was like to visit the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky during Covid. The art...

Creating in Place Project Collection

First citizen workshop presented under the auspices of the National Wildlife Federation, the Appa...

First citize...

William R. Mullins' wife, Virgie Mullins, with two children. 

View of NFKY River from downtown early July 28, 2022

The building on the right side of the image once hosted the offices of the Mountain Eagle newspaper.

A variety of large brick buildings, potentially related to coal or another industry, are situated...

A stretch of creek as seen from the perspective of a gravel overpass. Tall grasses line the banks...

A bathroom (with toilet, sink plumbing, and mirror) is visible from beyond the doorframe of a tra...

Interview and tune sharing with retired coal miner and banjo player Rudell Thomas, born in Pine T...

Preservation master for George Wooten: Leslie County Judge

Preservation element, one-light transfer for Coal Miner: Frank Jackson. ;Audio recording of a woman talking about coal mining, strip mining, coal operator's responsibilit...

Label: "KET, The Kentucky Network, Air, Appalshop Presents, Kingdom Come School & The Big Lever"

Label: "Appalshop, Kingdom Come School & The Big Lever, Master"

Photograph by Appalshop producer Mimi Pickering of her laptop as she edits a video. Caption: "Fro...

Video duplication master for Feathered Warrior.

Video dub master for Coal Miner: Frank Jackson.

Label: Woodrow Cornett: Letcher County Butcher, Directed by Bill Richardson with Frank Majority, ...

Label: Woodrow Cornett: Letcher Co. Butcher, 00:09:37, Appalshop, Serial No 1916, Location A1;

Master for Kingdom Come School

Master for Kingdom Come School. Label: "Kingdom Come School, 1973, 22:00 minutes."

Master for Kingdom Come School. Label: "Title - Kingdom Come School, Length - 21:12, Client - App...

Label: Judge Wooten - Coon on a Log

Dub excerpts from Coal Miner: Frank Jackson. Label reads "Sunshine Silver (from 1"), [Coal Miner]...

Video dub for Appalachian Genesis. 

Video dub for Appalachian Genesis. 

Victor Darnell (b. 1899) talks about moving to Dorchester, Virginia in 1916 and describes his lif...

An exterior shot of three businesses in East Jenkins, Kentucky: Whitaker's Variety Store, Conley'...

A prison gate and tower. 

A group of people standing in a room with concrete walls. 

A cell block of a prison. 

Two men standing guard outside the tower and wall of a prison. 

A prison cell. 

A cell block in a prison. 

A man and child [top], and a man [bottom]. 

A basketball court [top], and a prison cell [bottom]. 

Two women. 

A man [top], and a cafeteria [bottom]. 

A tshirt for "The Ultimate Bed & Breakfast- Wallens Ridge State Prison" [top], and a prison gate ...

A prison guard [top], and a man [bottom]. 

Several people working in a production studio. 

Two women, one woman is holding a camera. 

A man and two women. 

A woman holding a camera. 

A woman holding a camera, several people visible around her. 

Several people working in a production studio. 

Zach Hale, Machlyn Blair, Katie Blair, Frank Taylor, Carolyn Enright, Rachel Chaney, and Wayne Ca...

AMI summer 2011 film about a family who has shared the same plot of land for generations. Produce...

Untitled master for Evelyn Williams. This is the near-final version of an edited documentary befo...

Woman sitting in chair made bay Chester Cornett c. late 1950s or early 1960s.  Framed photo on wa...

Creating in Place Project Collection

This short film is about Arnold Slone (aka Uncle Ray), who talks about his family, his life exper...

Label on Front: Unbroken Tradition, 16mm IN & 16mm Opt Trk Neg, 30:00, 7/21/20; Label on Cassette...

Black and white photograph of several pieces of pottery. A quilt is in the background. 

Black and white photograph of two pieces of pottery. The pottery have sculped faces. 

Black and white photograph of a table full of pottery. 

Black and white photograph of a piece of pottery. The pottery, a jug, has a sculped face.

Black and white photograph of a table full of pottery. A man is seated behind the table. 

Black and white photograph of two boys loading or unloading pottery from a kiln as an older man s...

Black and white photograph of a woman sculpting a face on a piece of pottery, a jug. 

Negative film of pottery stacked inside a kiln. 

Black and white photograph of pottery stacked inside a kiln. 

Black and white photograph of a man. 

Black and white photograph of pottery drying or cooling on a make shift table. 

Black and white photograph of pottery stacked inside a kiln. 

A portion of a United Mine Workers of America rally held in Castlewood, Virginia. Video primarily...

The Buffalo Mountain Boys, a bluegrass band comprised of coal miners, play at a rally of the Unit...

A photograph of the exterior of the U.S. Post Office in Kite, Kentucky.

The post office in Jenkins, Kentucky as seen from across Main Street. The Jenkins post office was...

A photograph of the exterior of the U.S. Post Office in Hot Spot, Kentucky. Hot Spot was named fo...

Written history of Tynes Chapel AME Zion church in Rocky Gap, VA. Text by Reverend Adolphus Young...

Label on Spine: T.W.U.A. Rally - Aug 24, #1 of 6; Label on Back: Tape #1, Si Kahn, We're gonna ro...

Photograph by Cornett of one of his chairs. It is believed to be Cornett's first such rocker of t...

Two young men in white button down shirts, one smiling, stand waist-deep in a river in preparatio...

Tintype. From the family collection of Linda Collins.

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

A man and two women standing together outdoors with a road and house in the background. Identifie...

Two women and a baby standing for a photograph outdoors. Reverse reads "Aunt Polly Morgan holding...

A person in the entryway of a two-story wooden building talks with someone standing in the yard. ...

Two rolls of 35mm film documenting Black Lung Association.

A man and woman talk behind a row of bushes outside of a two story home. A car is parked alongsid...

A man and woman stand behind a row of bushes outside of a two story home. A car is parked alongsi...

From the family collection of Linda Collins. Inscription on back reads: "Main Street, Neon, KY. 1...

Two men - one of which appears to be wearing a law enforcement badge - standing on the porch of a...

Two men standing beside the entrance to a coal mine. Reverse reads "Sam J Wright & Willie Quillen...

Two men sitting in chairs under trees. One is identified as Willie Cornett, husband to Dora Corne...

Outdoors shot of two men sitting in lawn chairs in front of a white house. One of the men is iden...

Two men sitting in a watch repair shop. Reverse reads "Wesley Wright and Mr. Chase. in Watch Repa...

Ray Powers and an unidentified man. Taken in Baltimore, MD.

Two men standing in front the entrance to a coal mine. Reverse reads "191[5]4 Le...

Two men wearing coats face slightly away from the camera while posing for a photograph. Reverse r...

Two men and two women standing outdoors with a white house in the background. Identified as Eulic...

Two men and a woman holding up a stick from which hangs a caught fish. Reverse reads "Caught this...

Two young girls sitting on the front steps of a white house with a white cat. Identified as Cathy...

Two children in white prepare to get baptized in a river. The smaller child covers their face wit...

Two children dressed in white sit on the porch of a home with white vinyl siding and an ivy-frame...

Two children in white dresses prepare to get baptized in a river. The smaller child covers her mo...

Two children stand waist-deep in a river, preparing to get baptized. Two clergymen stand on eithe...

High sch...

Two boys stand waist deep in a river, preparing to get baptized. The boys cover their mouths whil...

An older man and woman pose outside the doorway of a two story brick building, while two children...

Two young girls and a young boy pose with musical instruments for an outdoor photograph. Reverse ...

Willa Johnson, Teri Blanton, Claudia Cole, Erica Urias, Dave Cooper, and Pat Bates discuss the po...

A truck hauls a two-story, clapboard sided home down a street lined with buildings and cars. Two ...

Headwaters: master from 1"; Label on Spine: Headwaters, "A Tribute to Carl D. Perkins", 28:35, Ma...

Black and white photograph of a man standing on a gravel road. 

Color photograph of a slide. 

One year old Fisher Bentley, couldn't stop looking at the floodwater fully surrounding his house.

Film transcript with synopsis that was published as a supplement to 16mm film prints of The Strug...

General Caudill would always make Christmas cookies with delicious icing each year. His grandchil...

"General Caudill would always make Christmas cookies with delicious icing each year. His grandchi...

Black and white photograph of a man. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people working in a production studio. 

Track negative and outtakes from Appalachian Genesis. Label reads, "45 min. opt. track neg., orig...

Dozens of people dressed in formal attire gather around a brick building in a mountain town. Seve...

Tomorrow's People is a musical and visual compilation of Appalachian cultu...

A man discussing making and playing banjos, luthers, banjo players, milling corn and wheat, Sand ...

Black and white photograph of a group of people dancing. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people playing music. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people dancing. 

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

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

Field audio tape for Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. Label on Spine: Tape #3...

Field audio tape for Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. Label on Back: "Tape #1...

Field audio tape for Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. Label on Back: Tom Wopa...

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

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

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

Portrait taken at the exterior corner of a house. A dog in collar and leash sits next to a toddle...

Black and white photograph of a woman and man standing by a chain stretched across a road. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people walking on a mud road. 

Black and white photograph of a group of women walking on a muddy road. Several of the women are ...

Black and white photograph of a group of people and two large bulldozers. 

Black and white photograph of a group of women huddled in the scoop of a bulldozer. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people standing by two large bulldozers. Two men are sta...

Black and white photograph of a group of women huddled in the scoop of a bulldozer. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people holding cardboard signs. 

Black and white photograph of a group of people, three men, a woman and a child. 

Contact sheet of production stills including images of muddy roads and trucks. 

Contact sheet of production stills including images of muddy roads, trucks, and groups of people. 

Contact sheet of production stills including images of muddy roads, trucks and groups of people. 

Contact sheet of production stills including images of a group of people. 

Label on Spine: 10/6/97, David Zegeer, #1, DZ 1; Label on Cassette: 10-6-97, David Zegeer, #1;

"To Hell and Back" is a moving tribute to Eastern Kentucky veterans who served in the Vietnam War...

Portrait of a man with decorative tin encasing.

Two women and one man in dark mourning clothing pose for a photograph behind an open casket, in w...

Three men, one in work coveralls and two others in button down shirts and slacks, stand in front ...

Those Who Believe 
20 minutes.  Ethan Martin, Derek Mullins, Leslie Shocky

For ...

Field audio tape for Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. Label on Spine: #3, Tho...

Field audio tape for Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. Label on Spine: #2, Tho...

Field audio tape for Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. Label on Spine: #1, Tho...

"I am an X-Ray Technologist who also does some lab work. During the pandemic I had to learn new s...

The human brain is constantly generating electrical frequencies which change based on physical an...

Film about people cooking and eating dandelion greens and other weeds in Eastern Kentucky. Unknow...

This was the start of the flooding in the road in Jenkins

This was the road as the flood separated access to town.

Creating in Place Project Collection

This is my family and I on vacation. Wearing face masks is the new norm unfortunately. Can’t enjo...