Finding Aid for the Victor Howard Collection (MUM00710)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1940s-1970s

Identifier

MUM00710

LCSH

Social history; Working class—history; Southern states—history; Appalachian region—Social Life and Customs; Kentucky—community; African Americans—Social life and customs

General Physical Description Note

60 linear feet

Description

Photographs of a coal community in the Cumberland region of eastern Kentucky, including baptisms, snake handling services, political and school events, civic meetings, social functions, interiors of coal mines, coal miners, and thousands of portraits and landscapes. Of particular interest is a collection of images from Lynch, Kentucky, a pre-dominantly African American coal town.

Recommended Citation

Victor Howard Collection (MUM00710), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries