Old pictures of Butterfly Gap

1886

Yearout's Mill

1886

Mt. Nebo house Chilhowee R. Blount Co. Tenn.

1914

"Hairy Sam"

1912

Charlie Ditmore taking Max Bell Webb

c. 1950

A mountain boy fetches water from a spring

1939

A group of miners in Harlan County during a strike

1946

Typical housing and street.

1939

Kentucky National Guard

1944

Bill Moses family

1946

Typical housing and street.

1946

Miners

1946

Wife of a miner

1946

A miner’s daughter with her pet groundhog

1894

Decoration Day

1902

The family of Lewis Parker

1910

Girls' basketball team.

c. 1922

Trade Street

c. 1934

Mae Gouge weaving

c. 1902

POST OFFICE

c. 1931

Aerial view

1917

Butter-making

1939

Einstein on the beach

1969

A legendary festival

c. 1943

Local grocery

c. 1957

downtown

c. 1920

MAIN ST.

1938

Librarian delivering books in the mountains of Kentucky

1843

Bremen Street View oldest pic

c. 1890

The city

c. 1970

Airport

1968

RFK meeting with the locals

c. 1900

Broughton Hospital

1914

A family at their newly-built log cabin

1935

Miners waiting for the Consolidated Coal Company bus

1949

PlayBoy founder Hugh Hefner with his first wife Millie Williams

1940

Columbia

1941

A farmer selling produce

1975

Main Street in "old" Butler, before inundation.

1913

Escape from jail

1920

Boone Tavern

1940

One-room schoolhouse

1946

Harry Fain, coal loader

1946

coal loader at Inland Steel

1901

downtown

1864

Destroying the railroad before the evacuation