Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series: PHOTOGRAPHS
LIFE AND WORK
086_VII_LW_school_clubs_handwork
singles

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TAGS: photographs of life and work at Pine Mountain Settlement School, Community Cooperative School, education, clubs, handwork, handicraft, crafts, weaving, woodworking, Edna Patterson, Mary Rogers, Ray Garner, sewing, Alvin Boggs, school clubs, Burton Rogers, banjos, musical instruments, feedsack cloth

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086 PHOTOGRAPHS V LW School Clubs Handwork

Series 086 VII Life and Work- Schools, Clubs, Handwork in the Pine Mountain Settlement School Records, 1913-1984 is among the files copied by the Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives during the 1983 NEH Settlement Institutions of Appalachia (SIA) project.  This series contains images of School clubs and handiwork classes at Pine Mountain during the 1940s through the 1970s.

Total images in Series VII Files 84-86 are 47.  The total number of photographs selected by Berea from the comprehensive PMSS collection were 717. The Berea project selectively pulled images from among the  3,318 mounted prints now on file in the Boy’s House Archive.

INDUSTRIAL AND CRAFT TRAINING in the COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL

Many of the activities captured in the photographs include classroom instruction, craft projects, woodworking shop, making musical instruments and weaving. During the Community Cooperative School years craft activities for the community were also provided after school hours and when the School closed many of the craft and woodworking opportunities were continued for the community.

Also within the collection are a scattering of images from the 1940s when photographers Ray Garner and his wife Virginia came as representatives of the Harmon Foundation and on the request of Pine Mountain, to photograph life at the campus. Ray Garner later became an internationally known photographer who developed several unique techniques in documentary film-craft. The industrial arts activities during the 1940s were integral to the educational programs of the school and were often part of the labor assignment of the students. The industrial training activities included such instruction as repairing automobiles, furniture woodcraft, weaving runners, coverlets and other textiles, sewing and other activities. The atmosphere was enriched by the industrial training but also was complemented by a full academic program.

COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL CLASSROOM ACTIVITY

The images from the Community School days depict classroom activities and craft programs integrated into the curriculum and also offered after school hours. The activities depicted include woodworking, sewing, weaving, and other activities as captured by various unidentified photographers. Also included are selected images of students from the kindergarten school that was known as “Little School,” run by Pine Mountain in cooperation with Head Start.

Many of the staff and the students are identified in this set of images and include such well-known instructors as Cora Campbell, Gerna Campbell, Principal of the Community School, Alvin Boggs, former Director of the School, Edna Patterson, an accomplished weaver and Mary Rogers, wife of former Director Burton Rogers, and others. The students are identified where known.

Please contact the Pine Mountain Office if you can assist in identifying students in the photographs. office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com

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GALLERY: 086 PHOTOGRAPHS V LW School Clubs Handwork

COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL
084-086 VII LIFE WORK 

(47 photographs. 84-86- [2276-2315]

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SEE ALSO:

052 VII LIFE WORK CHILDREN AND CLASSES (Berea #1662-1711)

063 VII LIFE WORK GENERAL MAINTENANCE, FARM, GROUNDS I (Berea #1918-1942)

064 VII LIFE WORK GENERAL MAINTENANCE, FARM, GROUNDS Photograph singles
064 VII LIFE WORK GENERAL MAINTENANCE, FARM, GROUNDS  II (Berea #1943-1960) pages

083 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Chapel

084-086 VII LIFE WORK SCHOOL, CLUBS, AND HANDWORK (Berea #2298-2315)

084 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Clubs and Handiwork I

085 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Clubs and Handiwork II

087 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Dining Room

088 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Library single photographs
088 LIFE AND WORK School Library pages

089 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Library single photographs
089 LIFE AND WORK School Library pages

090 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Library Storytelling single photographs
090 LIFE AND WORK School Library Storytelling pages

091 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Library Storytelling II single photographs
091 LIFE AND WORK School Library Storytelling II pages

092 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Music

093 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Playground and Pool

094 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Playground and Pool

095 LWS LIFE AND WORK School Playground and Pool

PAUL LYNN Photograph Album

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Title	VII 84-86 LIFE WORK – SCHOOL, CLUBS, AND HANDWORK (Berea #2298-2315)
Alt. Title	Life and Works at Pine Mountain Settlement School 1940s-1970s, BOX 4 – #52 [1662-1711 partial]
Identifier	Permalink: https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=9507
Creator	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Alt. Creator	Ann Angel Eberhardt , Helen Hayes Wykle , Berea College Hutchins Library Special Collections & Archives ;
Subject Keyword	Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Life and Work ; Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives ; classroom activities ; Community School ; community ; Ray Garner ; Virginia Garner ; photographers ; photographs ; Harmon Foundation ; crafts ; industrial education; educational programs ; labor assignments ; work-study ; kindergartens ; Little School ; Head Start ; Cora Lee Campbell, Alvin Boggs ; Edna Patterson ; weavers ; Mary Rogers ; teachers ; students ; weaving ; banjos ; woodworking ; sewing ; Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ;
Subject LCSH	Pine Mountain Settlement School — Photographs. Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) — History. Harlan County (Ky.) — History. Education — Kentucky — Harlan County. Rural schools — Kentucky — History. Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern. Pine Mountain Settlement School — Community School.
Date	2014-04-25
Publisher	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Contributor	n/a
Type	Collections ; text ; image ;
Format	Original and copies of photograph prints taken at Pine Mountain and attached to backing and assembled into series in the 1980s.
Source	PHOTOGRAPHS: Series VII: Life and Works
Language	English
Relation	Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, PHOTOGRAPHS: Series VII: Life and Works ;
Coverage Temporal	1940s through the 1970s
Coverage Spatial	Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ;
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Contact: office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com
Donor	n/a
Description	Selected photographs documenting the activities of school and work during the 1940s through the 1970s at Pine Mountain Settlement School. Original collection contains 717 images selected from 3,318 included in this series. Candid photographs of students, teachers and staff at work in classrooms, workshops, and on campus. Several images document the early kindergarten classes held at the school in cooperation with Head Start.
Acquisition	n/d
Citation	Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Processed By	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;
Last Updated	2014-04-25 hhw ; 2014-07-07 aae ; 2016-06-12 hhw; 2020-11-02 hhw; 2021-01-16 ;
Bibliography	Sources Boggs, Alvin. Director’s Papers. Series 07. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Archival material. Community School at Pine Mountain Settlement School. Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Archival material. Mahoney, Milly. “Little School” reports. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Archival material.