Old pictures of Breathitt

1940

One-room schoolhouse

c. 1943

Local grocery

c. 1957

downtown

1913

Escape from jail

1914

A family at their newly-built log cabin

1946

Soda fountain

1946

Miners taking an advance on their wages

1946

Harry Fain, coal loader

1946

coal loader at Inland Steel

1938

Librarian delivering books in the mountains of Kentucky

1968

RFK meeting with the locals

1953

John Price

1935

Miners waiting for the Consolidated Coal Company bus

1940

Members of the Primitive Baptist Church

1946

Wife of a miner

1946

A miner’s daughter with her pet groundhog

1946

Miners

1946

Typical housing and street.

1939

A group of miners in Harlan County during a strike

1944

Bill Moses family

1946

Typical housing and street.

1939

Kentucky National Guard

c. 1930

A traveling grocery store

c. 1890

men gathering during the feuds

1917

Butter-making

1920

Boone Tavern

1916

Pilot View School

1910

Thanksgiving Day Women's Basketball

1916

Ronald Lowe and his two brothers "topping" tobacco

1941

Photograph of bridesmaid

1946

Wife of a miner

1946

A miner and his wife with their 12-hour-old baby

c. 1919

COAL MINER

1939

A group touring Cudjo's Cave

1864

134th Illinois Regiment

c. 1940

Williams family in their root cellar

1952

Classroom

1946

Joyland Park

1890

Gratz Park

c. 1860

Lexington Light Infantry on parade in Cheapside

1883

First electric trolley in Lexington