Old pictures of Wilkes

1939

Mrs. Emma family.

1939

Tobacco Bag Stringing

c. 1920

West Jefferson

c. 1900

Broughton Hospital

1908

Lincolnton, N.C. National Child Labor Committee.

c. 1934

Mae Gouge weaving

1949

PlayBoy founder Hugh Hefner with his first wife Millie Williams

c. 1931

Aerial view

c. 1920

MAIN ST.

1910

Girls' basketball team.

1934

Southern textile workers celebrate Labor Day

1908

Loray Mill

1946

Miner's children

1906

Embree Iron Company Store.

1894

Decoration Day

c. 1910

University of North Carolina

1955

No title is provided.

1939

Mrs. Rosa

1965

Wolf Creek at the town park

1946

A miner’s wife with their child

1949

Children of miners

1946

A miner’s wife and their daughter

1946

A miner's baby

1946

Son of a miner eating in the kitchen

1946

Wife of a miner

1864

Group at headquarters of the Provost Marshal Department

1942

DOWNTOWN

1910

Ringling Bros parade

c. 1940

Four musicians performing at the Mountain Music Festival

1936

Snowstorms

1938

Former miners' boardinghouse

c. 1922

Trade Street

1946

A miner eating supper with his family

1939

STREET

1917

Butter-making

1940

An outdoor picnic

1935

Miners waiting for the Consolidated Coal Company bus

1968

RFK meeting with the locals

1958

Main Street

1938

Librarian delivering books in the mountains of Kentucky

c. 1919

COAL MINER

c. 1915

Devil Anse Hatfield and Levisa