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08/14/2024

Saturday Evening traffic in Louisville in 1966. Always busy around the holidays!

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08/13/2024

The Hatfield Clan of West Virginia poses for a family portrait in 1897, a few years after they had ended a 30-year feud with the McCoys of Kentucky.

05/13/2024

Look familiar to anyone?!

05/13/2024

The oldest-known photograph of downtown Danville, KY, likely taken around 1875!

05/13/2024

A man crossing the Kentucky River over a swinging bridge. Jackson, Kentucky in 1940

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02/17/2024

A 1920 view of Boone Tavern in Berea, Kentucky. We can almost smell the spoon bread cooking! Has anyone else visited or eaten here? We love it!

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02/17/2024

A view of men gathering during the feuds in Harlan in the last 1800s. We believe this photo is of an area that was then known as "Poor Fork"

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09/29/2023

Who remembers the taste of fresh watermelon on a hot summer day? Was quite the treat when we could get it! Photo by Dorothea Lange in 1939

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07/31/2023

Protecting their crops in Western Kentucky during the Black Patch To***co Wars of 1904-1909

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07/30/2023

A family reunion outside Lawrenceburg, Kentucky in August, 1940. Did your family have gatherings like this? We sure do miss those days!

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07/30/2023

A view of downtown Hazard around 1957. Any Hazard folk here?

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07/30/2023

A woman drawing water from the well in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1930s. Do any of you remember going to 'fetch water' from the well?

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07/30/2023

Members of the Primitive Baptist Church in Morehead, Kentucky, attending a creek baptizing by submersion, 1940.

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07/29/2023

Rounding up the staked to***co to head to the barn. Photo taken August, 1940 on a farm outside Lexington, Ky.

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07/29/2023

Fourth Street in Louisville in 1960. Isn't it beautiful?

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07/28/2023

A rare photo of a group of "Old Regular" Baptist preachers in Eastern Kentucky around 1896.

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07/28/2023

The Hatfield Clan of West Virginia poses for a family portrait in 1897, a few years after they had ended a 30-year feud with the McCoys of Kentucky.

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07/28/2023

A view of downtown Lexington during the big flood of 1928. This was one of the events that led to the closing of the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek.

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