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Rita Dale, far right

Jackie Sharp and Mr. Stone, front row

A photograph of several people in front of the sign for the Fries Methodist Church, which says "Jesus! Zero Defects".

Homer Lineberry (Shift Manager, Winding 2nd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation), Betty Akers (Zero Defects Achievment Award Winner), Hobert Akers (Husband), Lisa and Sherri Akers (Daughters), H. D. Kingsmore (President,…

Gene Taylor (Shift Manager, Carding 3rd Shift), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Raymond Sapp (Award Winner)

Early Doss (Shift Manager, Weaving, 1st Shift), Ralph Vaughan (Award Winner), E.E. Maddrey (President, Riegel Textile Corporation) Rose Vaughan (Mother of Ralph), Jack Bowman (Weaving Mill Manager)

This broadside advertises the sale of the Yellow Sulphur Springs resort, taking place on August 14, 1943. The broadside details the property and buildings that were being sold, the location of the public auction, the terms of sale, and the…

Main building of the Yellow Sulphur Spings Resort in 1934

The Yellow Sulphur Springs Hotel Account Book, which might more accurately be described as a guest register, includes the names of guests, their place of residence, the time of their arrival, and their room numbers. While the resort played host to…

Blurry photo of a women posing infont of the Yellow Sulfur Springs Hotel

A page from a mill ledger recording employee's membership dues for the Fries, Va. Y.M.C.A., seperated by mill department.

Written Prayer

Working the canals

Worker Exiting Coal Mine

Wooden Wheels

Color image.

Wooden plank suspension bridge

Color image.

Wood cabin

Women with their quilts

Women pick Winesap apples before making apple butter

Women in bonnets with their finished quilts

Women having dinner on the grounds at quilting bee

Women Cooking Apple Butter

Woman stirring apple butter

Woman Sitting On A Fence

Woman places apple butter in jar before canning

Woman peels apples before making apple butter

Woman On The Rocks

Woman making apple butter

Woman In The Woods

Winter in Appalachia

Taken in Meadows of Dan, Patrick, Va.

Written on back: "Landscape in the heart of the appalachian mountains of Kentucky. Willie Gibbons and his wife Nancy raised a family of 12 kids on this 85 acre farm and three room cabin."

"GARDNER, WILLIAM W. (b. 1872). DAYBOOK, 1918. 0.1 cu. ft. Merchant in Lafayette (Montgomery County), Virginia. Daybook providing customer names, goods purchased, and prices paid. Available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1940-011."

This is a single letter written by William L. Scott, a private in Company B, 15th North Carolina Infantry, during the American Civil War. Writing to his sister Martha from Richmond, Virginia, on July 11, 1863, Scott describes a recent skirmish…

Wildlife Refuge Sign, Department of Game and Fish, Clay County, Frankfort, Kentucky

Wildacres Tunnel on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Wild Ginseng

White-tailed Deer

White Deer of Appalachia

Outside view of Whisner Memorial Methodist Church in Blacksbuirg, VA

Chapter one of a fictional crime drama about marijuana being discovered on a college campus.

Whale Rock

Western Maryland Locomotive No.5

R.P.O. postmark (railway post office) indicates that this was mailed at a mobile post office. The route and train number are indicated.

Postmarked "Lynch & Norton R.P.O. TR..6, Feb 24 1910"

Addressed to Mrs. S. B. Schomaker, Blue Grass,…

Welcome to the Bookmobile!

Photo of a man & woman standing infront of a road sign reading "Welcome to Prices Fork; Please drive carefully; Grange NO.786"