Old pictures of Abingdon

1949

PlayBoy founder Hugh Hefner with his first wife Millie Williams

c. 1920

MAIN ST.

1910

Girls' basketball team.

1946

Miner's children

c. 1920

West Jefferson

1894

Decoration Day

1906

Embree Iron Company Store.

1917

Butter-making

1935

Miners waiting for the Consolidated Coal Company bus

1946

A miner’s wife and their daughter

1946

Son of a miner eating in the kitchen

1946

A miner’s wife with their child

1946

Wife of a miner

1968

RFK meeting with the locals

1938

Librarian delivering books in the mountains of Kentucky

c. 1934

Mae Gouge weaving

1942

DOWNTOWN

1938

Former miners' boardinghouse

1939

Tobacco Bag Stringing

1939

Mrs. Emma family.

1946

Harry Fain, coal loader

1946

coal loader at Inland Steel

1953

John Price

c. 1919

COAL MINER

1946

A miner eating supper with his family

c. 1900

Broughton Hospital

c. 1915

Devil Anse Hatfield and Levisa

1944

Bill Moses family

1946

Typical housing and street.

1939

A group of miners in Harlan County during a strike

1939

Kentucky National Guard

1946

Typical housing and street.

1946

Miners

1946

Wife of a miner

1946

A miner’s daughter with her pet groundhog

c. 1940

Williams family in their root cellar

1914

A family at their newly-built log cabin

1864

Group at headquarters of the Provost Marshal Department

c. 1931

Aerial view

1946

Soda fountain

1946

Miners taking an advance on their wages