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.
Arrival of the "Traveling Library" at a school house in Campbell County, eastern Tennessee. Sponsored by the then newly formed "Committee to Save the Children", two boys carry a large "Traveling Library" box on a road toward a school serving Appalachian mountain children. They set it on the school steps. Children and a teacher gather around the box. Lettering on the box reads, "Traveling Library, Campbell County. Committee to Save the Children fund." A teacher opens the box and takes a book from inside. The children gather around her as she opens the book. She writes inside one of the books and then hands the book to a school boy.
A meal is prepared and served in the southern appalachian mountains near Campbell County, Tennessee. Group of women gathered in a kitchen fill serving plates and bowls with prepared food. Men and women seated at a table are served the food. Possibly a meal involving Presbyterian or Episcopal mission workers involved in providing training and education to Appalachian communities A bouquet of flowers on the table. A console piano behind a woman seated at the table.
Girls learn pickling at a mission-sponsored industrial or training school in the southern appalachian mountains of Tennessee. Girls in uniform cross a wooden bridge and assemble on a front porch of a school building. Several girls practice techniques for pickling foods in large jars, while other girls look on.
College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) work together at a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes and facilities for a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?). Opening image shows the book "The Plight of the Bituminous Coal Miner" by Homer Lawrence Morris and Joseph H. Willits. View of farmland and a new mining community from a high hill. Craft work Camp in Pennsylvania. View of a community mining area. Coal elevator building and rows of miner's homes close together in the background. Students help miners build new homes. They work on scaffolding, building walls of homes with stone and mortar. View of lumber piled high and a worker sawing a board. Workers move building materials in wheelbarrows. A stone home with a partially framed roof. An African American student volunteer breaks up rock with a sledge hammer. Volunteers load stone from a nearby quarry onto waiting trucks. Workers slide rocks from a quarry to a waiting team below, who loads rock pieces into a mill that pulverizes the rock and turns it into stone dust that is then carried away for use in the building projects. View of Miners simple, temporary houses. A mining family relaxes on a bench swing in front of a house and children of miners play with a dog. Men framing a temporary home. A woman volunteer paints the exterior of a house.
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