LUTRELLA BAKER Photograph Album Line Fork Settlement

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series: PHOTOGRAPHS
LUTRELLA BAKER
Photograph Album
Line Fork Settlement

Group portrait of community youth at Line Fork Settlement, 1937-1941. [line_fork_005a.jpg]

LUTRELLA BAKER ALBUM Line Fork Settlement, 1920s-1941

TAGS: Lutrella Baker album, Line Fork Settlement, Pine Mountain Settlement School, photographs, satellite settlements, Lutrella Baker, Rev. Richard Baker, Dr. Ida S. Stapleton, Rev. Robert Stapleton, education and industrial training programs, community, Infirmary, Harlan Count mining, The Cabin, circle dances, nurses, locomotives, Gilley KY, garden terracing, sorghum, Burkham School House

The LUTRELLA BAKER ALBUM Line Fork Settlement is a collection of photographs taken at the Line Fork Settlement, a satellite extension of Pine Mountain Settlement School some six miles to the west of the main School. The photographs, taken in the late 1920s through 1941 s by various photographers, document life at the satellite settlement school while it was under the direction of the Stapletons and then the Rev. Richard Baker and his wife, Lutrella.

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: THE BAKERS

The Lutrella Baker Album is named for Lutrella Baker, Rev. Richard Baker’s wife, who assembled the album. Rev. Baker, a minister, was charged with the management of Line Fork Settlement in late 1937 under the general direction of Pine Mountain’s director, Glyn Morris. They followed the departure of the previous directors, Dr. Ida S. Stapleton and her husband, the Reverend Robert Stapleton, who left Line Fork in 1937.

The Bakers continued to be salaried and administered by Pine Mountain Settlement School. Lutrella assisted with the education and industrial training programs at Line Fork, while the Rev. Baker was charged with programming and general site administration.

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: THE ALBUM

The photograph collection and album were donated to Pine Mountain by the daughter of Lutrella Baker who was one of two children in the Baker family at Line Fork. The two children show up frequently in the photographs.

The album begins with photographs of the Stapletons and then many images of the Bakers. The small album of 15 pages contains 41 photographs.

There does not appear to be a chronological order to the images and some images are difficult to date but, generally, they provide an overview of the Baker’s time at Line Fork and a window on the physical facility and surrounding community. Compared to earlier images of the settlement, these images provide a graphic record of the changes in the community since the inception of the Line Fork programs in the 1920s.

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: THE ENDING OF THE SETTLEMENT

With the Bakers, the settlement programs of Line Fork came to an end in 1941. There were many reasons for the closure of the facility at Line Fork — economic, educational, religious, and social — but it largely was phased out due to the increasing drain on resources for Pine Mountain Settlement which was struggling to grow its increasingly important boarding school for high-school students. New buildings were being constructed at Pine Mountain, and the Infirmary was picking up most of the community medical needs. Harlan County was managing the local schools, and industrial training was fragmented and difficult to focus as mining dominated the work options and women struggled to keep families together as men left to work in the mines.

Following the departure of the Bakers in 1941, an artist, Mr. Sanford, occupied the Cabin from April to June of 1941 and he was followed by B. McKnight and his family in July of the same year. Neither occupant was engaged in programming for settlement work or under the administration of Pine Mountain, though rental was collected by Pine Mountain School on the property. There followed a series of renters of the Cabin until the main cabin burned and the second cabin soon followed the same fate.

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.Lutrella M. Baker died in Rolla, Missouri, on Feb 15, 1990, at the age of 88. She was survived by her husband Richard E. Baker, retired minister of the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, and her daughter. (Source: Presbyterian Outlook April 23, 1990.)

Lutrella Baker Album Line Fork Settlement: GALLERY

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Lutrella and Richard Baker. [line_fork_002a.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Baker Children [Mary Sue and ? ]. [line_fork_002b.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. The Cabin. [line_fork_003a.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. The Cabin in snow. line_fork_003b

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. The Cabin. line_fork_003c

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Distant view of Cabin in snow. line_fork_003d

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Line Fork area. line_fork_003e

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Close view of Cabin from front. line_fork_004a

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. View of Cabin in heavy snow. line_fork_004b

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Cabin and Baker dog on lawn. line_fork_004c

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Community gathering at Cabin. line_fork_005a

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Family gathering of community families at Cabin. line_fork_005b

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Circle dance with community at Cabin lawn. [line_fork_005c.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Children at a Cabin gathering. Sunday School ? line_fork_006a

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Sunday School at Cabin with organ to the right. line_fork_006b

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Group portrait of children and adolescents from the Line Fork community. line_fork_006c

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. The Bakers [?] [line_fork_007a.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Young people in front of Cabin in the snow. line_fork_007b

: “Hattie Sturgill,” nurse at Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Lutrella Baker Album. [line_fork_007c.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Family in the Line Fork area. line_fork_007d

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Woman on horseback. [line_fork_008a.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Woman and children. [line_fork_008b.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Group photograph of children and adults. line_fork_008c

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Group portrait of women and young girls at Cabin. line_fork_008d

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Locomotive. line_fork_009

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. The Bakers [Lutrella and Richard Baker]. [line_fork_010a.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Gilley, Kentucky [?] line_fork_010b

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Young people, group portrait. line_fork_011a

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Young children. [line_fork_011b.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Group portrait of children. line_fork_011x

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Group portrait of adults and some small children on lawn in front of terracing at Cabin. [line_fork_012a.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Lutrella [?] and mule with carrying sacks. [line_fork_012b.jpg]

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Garden terracing at the Cabin. line_fork_012c

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Delivery of the organ to the Cabin. line_fork_012d

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Milling sorghum for molasses at Line Fork. line_fork_013a

: Lutrella Baker Album. Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. View of valley mountains and fields. line_fork_013b

: Lutrella Baker Album: Line Fork Settlement, 1937-41. Burkham School House at Pine Mountain Settlement School with community gathering. [line_fork_014]