Historic Photos of Appalachia
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Kevin O'Donnell
Kevin O'Donnell is an Anglican priest who was an RE teacher both before and after theological training at St Stephen's House, Oxford. Before returning to parish ministry in 1999 he was chaplain at Heathfield School, Ascot. He is the author of a number of RE text books and contributor to others.
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Historic Photos of Appalachia - Kevin O'Donnell
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
APPALACHIA
TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY KEVIN E. O’DONNELL
In the decades after the Civil War, the Tennessee town of Jonesborough prospered with the coming of the railroad. Jonesborough was founded in 1779, serving briefly as the capital of the state of Franklin. Unofficially the fourteenth state in the Union, Franklin was never recognized by Congress and was dissolved in 1788.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
APPALACHIA
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Historic Photos of Appalachia
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This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009922660
ISBN: 978-1-59652-540-5
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
AN AMERICAN REGION INDUSTRIALIZED (1870–1899)
TOURISM, EDUCATION, MODERNIZATION, AND THE GREAT WAR (1900–1919)
BOOM, BUST, AND DAMS (1920–1939)
HIGHWAYS, REVIVALISM, AND COAL-COUNTRY POVERTY (1940–1970)
NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Originally a stereograph, this view of an Appalachian town in the 1880s features a mud street and wooden boardwalk adorning shopfronts.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume, Historic Photos of Appalachia, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals and organizations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge their generous support. The W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, made available a large number of images, from several of its holdings: The Cratis Dearl Williams Papers; Leo Finklestein Papers; Tennessee Valley Authority Collection of Photographs; William D. Hoyt Photographs; Hotel Roanoke Photographs; C and O Railroad Photographs; Norris Dam Photograph; Shulls Mills Photographs; Smyth County, Virginia Lifetime Collection; Linville Valley, NC Photographs; Jonesborough, Tennessee Photographs; David Worth Papers; Harper’s Ferry Photograph; German Fraternal Order Photograph; Virginia Cascade Stereograph; Delaware Water Gap Stereograph; and Natural Bridge Stereograph. Thanks also to the Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina.
Three-fourths of the photographs came from the Archives of Appalachia, a division of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. Included are images from fifteen of their collections: The Appalachian Photographic Archives; Pollyanna Creekmore Collection; James T. Dowdy, Sr., Photographs; Burr Harrison Photographs; Kyle Huddle Photograph Collection; Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works Records; Kelly and Green Company Collection; Mildred S. Kozsuch Collection; Erlene Ledford Photographs; Clifford A. Maxwell Photographs; Pressmen’s Home Photograph Collection; Range Family Papers; Jeanne M. Rasmussen Collection; Jack Underwood Photograph Collection; and the Hugh L. White Collection.
Thanks to Georgia Greer and John Fleenor, of the archives staff, to Norma Meyers, archives director, and to Roberta Herrin, director of CASS, for their help with this book. Thanks also to Bob Cox, a contributing writer to the Johnson City Press and an East Tennessee historian. I don’t know Mr. Cox personally, but his newspaper columns and Yesteryear
Web site, bcyesteryear.com, have been invaluable resources in the preparation of this book.
—Kevin E. O’Donnell, Johnson City, Tennessee, July 2009
PREFACE
Appalachia comprises the southern highlands of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The borders of the region, however, are variously defined. By most definitions, the region extends north into the hill country of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and south into the mountainous parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. By any definition, the region is enormously diverse, in terms of both physical geography and human culture.
No collection of photographs, of course, could ever definitively represent such a region. The photographs in this volume came mainly from two archives: the Archives of Appalachia, at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tennessee, and the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University, in Boone, North Carolina. Because those archives are located in east Tennessee and western North Carolina, respectively, this collection tends to emphasize those parts of Appalachia and, to a lesser extent, West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. Nonetheless, this volume includes images from across the region. These pictures provide snapshots, partial views, slices, and vignettes, which together suggest the broad range of landscapes, scenes, and experiences that make up Appalachia.
More than most other American regions, Appalachia tends to be associated with certain stock or stereotypical images: the homespun hillbilly, the feckless moonshiner, the shoeless child, the debris-strewn mountain homestead. Some of those stock images can be demeaning and misleading, even