Aerial view of Mountaintop Removal, approaching Racine
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More
A Chesapeake & Ohio Railway coal train approaches Thurmond, a mostly d...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In the 2010 census it's population was 5. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge in the late 19th and early 20th cent... More
Commercial block in the distressed Appalachian town of Northfork, West...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
A barnside billboard in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia, contain...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Orie Loucks lectures to Appalachia Forest Action Project volunteers du...
Event: Citizen Science workshop at Mountview School. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Row of homes along the dirt Pearly Road in the distressed Appalachian ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elkhorn was once a "coal camp," a company mining town, in a deep hollow along Elkhorn Creek operated by the Crozer Coal and Coke Compa... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Work projects: Enrollee William L. Cross, Appalachia, Virginia, climbi...
Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Appalachia Forest Action Project volunteers looking at "Big Red," an o...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Orie Loucks orienting Appalachia Forest Action Project volunteers to m...
Event: Citizen Science workshop at Mountview School. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Service Co. building in the distressed Appalachian Mountains to...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elkhorn was once a "coal camp," a company mining town, in a deep hollow along Elkhorn Creek operated by the Crozer Coal and Coke Compa... More
Old mining complex in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Key...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Keystone was founded in 1892 by the Keystone Coal & Coke Company. Its first mine, Keystone No. 1, produced for 94 years until it was e... More
Work projects: Enrollee William L. Cross, Appalachia, Virginia, climbi...
Civilian Conservation Corps photo no. CCC 527. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availab... More
Orie Loucks orienting Appalachia Forest Action Project volunteers to m...
Joe Aliff writes, "The site of this photo is on the south slope of the right hand ridge of the 'Goode Hollow' which is one quarter mile up Rock Creek Hollow.
Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In the 2010 census the population was 5. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge in the late 19th and early 20th centu... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
The Elkhorn Church of God in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elkhorn was once a "coal camp," a company mining town, in a deep hollow along Elkhorn Creek operated by the Crozer Coal and Coke Compa... More
Gigantic 2009 mural by Tom Acosta in the distressed Appalachian town o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist Acosta is a Welch native and practitioner. Incorporated in 1893, Welch became a prosperous city in the first half of the 20th c... More
Buildings along the railroad line through the distressed Appalachian M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Keystone was founded in 1892 by the Keystone Coal & Coke Company. Its first mine, Keystone No. 1, produced for 94 years until it was e... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More
Doris Magan, former coal miner and Appalachia Forest Action Project vo...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bank of Florida, Calhoun & Appalachia Parkway (moved from Adams Street...
Significance: This structure housed the first bank chartered by the State of Florida. // The Bank of Florida, built in 1828. housed the first bank to be chartered by the State of Florida. Local tradition holds... More