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The human race has long had a love affair with coal. Coal is a fossil fuel that started forming in the Carboniferous Period 359 million to 299 million years ago during the Paleozoic Era.
These three historic coal towns are now wonderful travel destinations in Eastern Kentucky.
An NPR investigation has documented dramatic spikes in complicated black lung, the most serious stage of the deadly coal miners' disease.
In 1972, while hitchhiking across the United States, Robert Gumpert found himself on the side of the road in Cabin Creek, West Virginia waiting for a ride. During a shift change at the coal mine nearby, seeing a steady stream of miners convinced him that he needed to come back to photograph the area. Back …
Life was hard—but Kentuckians were tougher.
In the 1940s, photographer Russell Lee spent two years working for the United States Department of the Interior in Eastern Kentucky. During that time,...
Kentucky is home to the largest supplier of coal in the U.S. and many other coal companies. Here are 25 images from coal camps through the 1930s and 1940s.
In the 1940s, photographer Russell Lee spent two years working for the United States Department of the Interior in Eastern Kentucky. During that time,...
Kentucky is home to the largest supplier of coal in the U.S. and many other coal companies. Here are 25 images from coal camps through the 1930s and 1940s.
The Kentucky Coal Museum brings back to life one of the most unique and interesting aspects of early coal mining – the company store. Housed...
Bloody Harlan and the Coal War of the 1930s
Original Caption: One of the Daughters of Jerry Rainey, 34, a Miner Who Was Out on Strike Against the Brookside Mining Company in Brookside Kentucky, near Middlesboro for Several Months During 1974. She Is on the Back Porch of the House Rainey Rents From the Company Notice the Outhouses in the Background. The Family Was Threatened by Eviction During the Lengthy and Sometimes Violent Strike Despite a State Law Which Outlaws Such a Practice 06/1974 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14094 Photographer: Corn, Jack, 1929- Subjects: Middlesboro (Bell county, Kentucky, United States) inhabited place Environmental Protection Agency Project DOCUMERICA Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/556546 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Explore Cincytwboy's 1949 photos on Flickr!
Faces of Appalachia In The Early and Mid 20th Century...
Kentucky has been through ups and downs as a state, including the trying times of the Great Depression. Here are 20 photos to remind us what was endured.
Since our state actually became a state, quite a few places have blinked in and out of existence. Here are 11 once thriving, now deserted towns in Kentucky.
Kentucky is home to the largest supplier of coal in the U.S. and many other coal companies. Here are 25 images from coal camps through the 1930s and 1940s.
Split Bow Arch, Blue Heron Interpretive Center, McCreary County Museum. Been here too? Add it to your map!
