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Joe Carter, son of A.P. and Sara Carter

Written on back: "Mountain people grew all the grain they used on the farm. On every creek there was a water powered grist mill where they got their corn, wheat, and buckwheat ground into flour. Here is the snow-covered water race of a grist mill in…

Written on back: "Nestled in a cove in Greenup County, Ky. is Sophia Stuarts log home. Sophia was the late sister of Jesse Stuart, well known Kentucky writer."

Written on back: "The only way the farmer had to get his crops from the field to the farm was horse-drawn wagons or fled. Here is a 'Jolt' wagon in Floyd County, Va. They was called 'jolt' because they rode so rough."

Jesse Stuart's home in West Hollow, Kentucky

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."

Written on back: "All of the mountain families grew they ate and built everything on their farm with strong hands and a willing heart. Here Hubert Hensley and his wife are getting ready to milk his cow."

Written on back: Garden planting time in the Blue Ridge. Here Hubert Hensley, who still does his farm work by horses, is getting ready to plow his garden."

"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Corn shocks in corn field

1921 McCormick Deering Tractor

Joyce Bowman's mother was raised in this cabin

Written on back: "After working all day, the mountain man always found time for music. Here John N. Hylton from Floyd County, Va. finds time to play his homemade banjo."

Wagon and wooden corn planter at Mabry Mill

John Newton Hylton's mill

John Newton Hylton grinding corn meal

Written on back: "This was took when Earl Palmer & I was on one of our trips"

"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Grandfather Mountain, N. C.

Corn shocks in corn field

Indian Creek covered bridge

"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Turner Chapel near Keystone, W. Va.

"Earl Plamer was with me" written on back.

"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

"Earl Plamer was with me on this trip" written on back.

Taken in Meadows of Dan, Patrick, Va.

Bob White Covered Bridge in Woolwine, Va.

Article in the Montgomery News Messenger about the Junior Women's Club in Blacksburg, Va.

Pencil drawing on soft ground etching of a cottage in the countryside, SIgned: Karl Belser

Pencil drawing of a countryside, pictured is a tree, a church, and mountains

Pencil drawing of Autun Tower

Dry etching of a man standing amoung ancient ruins (?)

Dry point etching split into two halfs. First half is of Altdorter, Paris countryside. 2nd half is of a face, a cathedral top, & a person standing

Drawing of a christmas card from Karl and Wilma Belser. Picture is of a multi-story building with a big front yard

Sketch of Mont Saint-Michel in France, Signed Karl Belser in the corner

Sketch of Dover Castle in Dover, England

Water damaged soft ground sketch of War Memorial Gym

Composition drawing of a residential street

Dry Point sketch of Mont Saint-Michel in France

Dry point sketch of a building with a dome top on a hill. There are towers surronding the main building

Dry point sketch of a mans side portrait

Dry point sketch of Jay Hall's side portrait

Dry point sketch of Dayton Kohler's portrait

Dry point etching of planes flying over a city of skyscrapers

Dry point etching of Saint Francesco Assisi churhc in Assisi, Italy

Sketch of Dover Castle in Dover, England

Drawing of Hotel DeVille, now the Town Hall of the city of Brussels, in Belgium