Harlan County (Ky.).

Abstract Ed Ward was a private record and tape collector, poet, prose writer, and community historian who lived at Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky. The digitized material in this collection includes recordings of interviews with Ed Ward, his reading from his writings such as Tall Tales of the Hills, musician interviews he recorded, and selected tape copies from Ward’s record collection of commercial recordings of Kentucky old time and early country music...

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1950 revised printing of: General Highway Map Harlan County Kentucky prepared by the Kentucky Department of Highways in cooperation with the Federal Works Agency Public Roads Administration, 1937. Scale 1:62500. Polyconic projection.

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Materials regarding Harlan County, Kentucky, and the ongoing struggle that occurred for over forty years following the big coal boom of the early 1900s.

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Two prints without text:
1. "Deserted Cabin" (see page 57 in At Home In the Hills)
2. "Mountain Cabin" (see page 67 in At Home In the Hills)

Data from the original mailing box postmarked August 12, 1982: "Spellman - Prints from Linoleum cuts. Mr. Spellman was a worker at Pine Mt. Settlement School and an Artist. The deserted cabin was on Greasy Creek, Harlan Co. Kentucky."

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1940-1943: 4 issues of The Lynch High-Light, official publication of the Lynch High School.

1976-2002: Newspaper clippings.

Scope and Contents 1918-1920: Fifteen 8.5 x 6.5 inch black and white photographs (plus a partial photograph) of Lynch in the early 20th century, including landscape views, homes, the Coal Miners Hotel, the United Supply Company main store, and the interior of the bath house for African American employees. (Formerly Log 682. Moved into the Appalachian Vertical Files October 2023.)Circa 1980s: Five 5 x 7 inch black and white Warren Brunner Studio photographs featuring images of African Americans, the...