050 PHOTOGRAPHS FN Occupations and Homes singles

Pine Mountain Settlement School
PHOTOGRAPHS: 050 PHOTOGRAPHS
Friends and Neighbors
Occupations and Homes pages

050 PHOTOGRAPHS FN Occupations and Homes singles

TAGS: photographs, occupations, homes, community life, logging, farming, construction, sorghum, maple sugar camps, steam engines, Henry Creech, Shell farm house, Frona Cooper, Aunt Nancy, Mary Bingham, Barry Bingham, Board of Trustee, Robert Creech, Bledsoe, KY, Cutshin, Rosalie Creech, Elizabeth Roettinger, Bob LaRue, Roy Banks, Jimmie Blanton, Airs Martin, chestnut trees, Lawrence Cooper


001a Milling lumber in the Pine Mountain valley, c. 1930s. [Elizabeth Roettinger photograph ?] 050_FN_occupations_homes_001a 

68 photogrphic images of life in the Pine Mountain valley. Includes scenes of logging, farming and visiting of homes and the making of maple syrup and cane sorghum. Board of Trustee member, Barry Bingham,Sr. owner of the Louisville Courier Journal and his wife Mary, were among members of the Pine Mountain Settlement Board of Trustee who visited several families and some were photographically documented.

A photo narrative by Marian Kingman of the Frona Cooper home are included at the end of the 050 PHOTOGRAPH series. Frona, a student at Pine Mountain Settlement, lived at Little Laurel in a remote and beautiful setting. Frona, her home, and family are represented in the photographs.

                                      

 

SEE ALSO: 

MARIAN KINGMAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Part I

FRONA COOPER POEM – The Last Journey in NOTES 1931

FIDDLER JOHN LEWIS

NOTES 1931