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Photograph of a young boy and girl sitting on the steps to a log house.This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. […]

“Renters.” Texas farmers that travel around, renting a farm for a year or so before moving on, adopting a nomadic lifestyle and understanding that nothing […]

The Watt’s Hotel in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, is visible in this picture. The hotel was “built by English prospectors circa 1887, and destroyed by fire […]

Members of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, sitting on their porch in a family…

This image, which was captured between 1896 and 1912 by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, depicts a couple along with their four kids. It was […]

1910; Washington School, Corryton, TN; Knox County. displays pupils and the teacher next to the building’s flag-draped wall.  

This image displays a typical Appalachian mountain family in front of their house.

A Snapshot of 1936: Life Near North Hyde Park, Vermont Old Vermont carriage and farm family near North Hyde Park, Vermont, 1936. In 1936, life […]

In the heart of Letcher County, Kentucky, circa 1935, the local country store stood as a cornerstone of community life. These humble establishments were more […]

en route to school. A group of rural kids traveling to the Buckeye Grades School, located close to Marlinton, West Virginia. They walk two to […]

Mr. and Mrs. Amos T. Trentham of Gatlinburg, TN, along with Peggy and Jay, their grandchildren. While Peggy churns butter, Jay whittles, Mrs. Trentham weaves, […]

A laborer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and his spouse are seated in front of their hut in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, on the Arkansas […]