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Letcher County (Ky.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Begley Family, 1992 - 2025

 File — Folder 11
Identifier: Box 2, folder 11
Scope and Contents

Includes data on A) Joe and Gaynell Begley, anti-strip mining activists, and B) Samuel L. Begley (1838-1885), the first county judge of Leslie County, Kentucky.

Dates: 1992 - 2025

Blackey, Kentucky

 File — Box 25: Series Series 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Dates: 1900 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010

Coal Mining: Seco, Kentucky, bulk: 1950s-1960s

 File — Box 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

Coal town

Dates: Majority of material found in 1950s-1960s

Environment: Forest and Forestry: Lilley Cornett Woods

 File — Box 81: Series Series 4
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Dates: 1900 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010

Giant of Letcher County

 File — Box 99: Series Series 7
Identifier: Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Dates: 1900 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010

Phil Primack Photographs and Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0271
Abstract During his career as a journalist Phil Primack covered public policy, politics, and the economy for numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Commonwealth, Boston, and Columbia Journalism Review. The Phil Primack Collection contains numerous photographs, most of them taken while Primack worked as a...
Dates: 1964-2000