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Marine, West Virginia, 1938
Others in the community comfort the dying miner’s family. He would die from his failing lungs within hours of taking…
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Shack owned by a strawberry farmer in Hammond, Louisiana.1935 in Louisiana
Caption: Shack owned by a strawberry farmer in Hammond, Louisiana.
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West Virginia and Ohio, 1896–1912…
Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image of six small children posing in a field with a toy…
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North Dakota, 1913.
The 14-child H.W. Hilborn family sits and stands on the steps of their Portal, North Dakota, house. One of the…
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Cincinnati in 1908…
The caption of the photographer Cincinnati’s Sixth Street Market has young chicken vendors. Heyman Mormer, age nine, 732 Kenyon Ave.…
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1938 in Arkansas. Moving soybean hay to the barn at the Lake Dick Project in Arkansas.
Moving soybean hay to the barn at the Lake Dick Project in Arkansas.
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Tennessee’s Dandrige, in 1930
The last surviving former slave in the region is Nancy Bradford. Born on January 4th, 1851, she worked as a…
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Sevier County, Tennessee, 1902.
The Conner family is seen outside their home in Gatlinburg’s Glades neighborhood. (L to R) Lona Conner McClure (1890–1976), Ida…
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Springdale Community in Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1941
A couple sits on a bench outside a church.
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The Journey Westward: A Kansas Family’s 1908 Covered Wagon Expedition
In the summer of 1908, the Smith family of Kansas embarked on a journey emblematic of the American pioneer…
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Tennessee’s Claiborne County, 1940s–1950s
Tennessee’s Claiborne County, 1940s–1950s… Picture of a little child comforting a weeping infant. The unidentified girl in the picture is…
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1913 in New York City
The caption of the photographer Hyman Bachwald, New York, 167 Allen Street. both epileptic and neurotic. Before being married, Mother…
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