Man arrives at the offices of Cumberland Homesteads, a New Deal Community being built by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads. He speaks to another man in front of the Information Office. Sign "Cumberland Homesteads Information" visible. He walks down a dirt road and arrives at another office. Sign out front says, "Office. William Macy Stanton, Architecture - Land Planning and Construction. D. F. Folger, Personnel and Purchasing." he enters the office and is seen seated at a table with another man (likely Stanton or Folger), filling out forms to apply for one of the homesteads. He exits the office together with the other man.
Health care services for Appalachian Mountain residents in the area of Campbell County, Tennessee. Woman straps saddle on horse and mounts it. She rides horse on dirt road, carrying a sick or injured child. She arrives at a building and another woman carries the child into the health facility. Another nurse on horseback picks up an infant child from a concerned Appalachian resident to take to the clinic. Group of men carry a child on a stretcher up a long flight of stairs to a health center. 1930s automobiles navigating rough mountain roads to get to patients. Women arriving by car at a white building atop a hill.
Scenes from a medical mission Appalachian health clinic near Campbell County, Tennessee. Sign "Changing Wash Day on the Farm." Below it is a display of a woman washing clothes by hand in a wooden tub. Transition to a woman operating an early washing machine. Cut to a crowd of mostly women and children gathered outside an appalachian health clinic. They are seated on benches outside a building. Medical mission staff nurses demonstrate health care practices and basic nursing to audience gathered. A young girl serves as the mock patient. Older nurses lecture audience and demonstrate techniques. Younger (teenage) nurses in training check patient's pulse and temperature. They demonstrate technique for bandaging a hand.
Medical mission nurses visit Appalachian mountain families and provide health care services for infant children. Man with his wife and children on porch of house in Appalachian Mountains near Campbell County, Tennessee. Nurses move a small bed onto the porch. View of a nurse weighing a toddler on a weighing scale. The baby cries. Another toddler seated on a woman's lap. Another woman carries infant baby in one hand and an umbrella in the other. She places the baby on an examining table and a nurse begins examination.
Presbyterian mission work in the southern appalachian mountain region of Madison County, west of Ashville, North Carolina. Man attaches a skid cart to a horse. A woman climbs in the skid. Man inspects dilapidated buildings. Group of men work at rebuilding and restoring the buildings. One man adjusting a door handle or lock, another man cutting wood with a saw. Storefront of Allanstand Cottage Industries at 16 College Street, Ashville, North Carolina, originally founded by Frances Goodrich. Sign "Allanstand" over the entrance way and the words "Blue Ridge" seen above that. Sign in a window under an awning, "Allanstand - Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild" (which later became the Southern Highland Craft Guild). 1930s era car parked out front of the shop. Pedestrians pass by on the sidewalk in front of the Allanstand Craft Shop. Bearded man rebuilding a stone post beside a driveway or road, with a farm and cows in the background. Another man in business clothing looks on.
Young men and women at an Appalachian industrial school or training school gather around an evergreen tree with a teacher and examine it. One of the school buildings in the background. School students walking on a road near school playground facilities. Children playing basketball in the background. Children cross a wooden bridge and proceed up a hillside path to reach a school building atop a hill. Possibly a facility of the Appalachian Industrial School or the Penland School of Handicrafts which provided skills and training to Appalachian Mountain children.
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