{"id":9507,"date":"2014-04-25T13:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=9507"},"modified":"2021-04-03T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T22:46:05","slug":"vii-life-and-works-1940-1970s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=9507","title":{"rendered":"086 PHOTOGRAPHS V LW School Clubs Handwork"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries: PHOTOGRAPHS
\nLIFE AND WORK
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086 LIFE WORK School Clubs Handwork<\/h2>\n
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Boarding School Sewing class. 086_VII_life_work_009.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n

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TAGS:<\/strong> Life and work; Pine Mountain Settlement School; Harlan County, KY; education; clubs; handwork; crafts; weaving;
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Series 086 VII Life and Work- Schools, Clubs, Handwork<\/strong> in the Pine Mountain Settlement School Records, 1913-1984 is among the files\u00a0<\/a>copied by the\u00a0Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives<\/a>\u00a0 during the 1983 NEH Settlement Institutions of Appalachia project. \u00a0This series contains images of School clubs and handwork classes at Pine Mountain during the 1940s through the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Total images in Series VII Files 84-86 are 47<\/strong>. \u00a0The total number of photographs selected by Berea from the comprehensive PMSS collection were 717. The Berea project made their selections from among the\u00a0 3,318\u00a0mounted prints now on file in the Boy’s House archive.<\/p>\n

Many of the activities captured in the photographs include classroom instruction, craft projects, woodworking shop, making musical instruments and weaving. During the Community School years craft activities for the community were also provided after school hours and when the School closed many of the craft and woodworking opportunities continued for the community.<\/p>\n

Also in the collection are a scattering of images from the 1940s when photographers Ray Garner<\/strong> and his wife Virginia<\/strong> came as representatives of the Harmon Foundation and on request of Pine Mountain, to photograph life of the campus. Ray Garner later became an internationally known photographer who developed several unique techniques in documentary film. The craft and industrial activities during the 1940s were integral to the educational programs of the school and were often part of the labor assignment of the students in industrial activities that repaired automobiles, built furniture, weaving runners for furniture, and other activities. The atmosphere was decidedly a work-study environment.<\/p>\n

The images from the Community School<\/strong> days depict classroom activities and craft programs integrated into the curriculum and also offered after school hours. The activities depicted include woodworking, sewing, weaving, and other activities as captured by various unidentified photographers. Also included are selected images of students from the\u00a0kindergarten school that was known as “Little School,” run by Pine Mountain in cooperation with Head Start.<\/p>\n

Many of the staff and the students are identified in this set of images and include such well-known instructors as Cora Campbell, Gerna Campbell,\u00a0Alvin Boggs,<\/a> <\/strong>former Director of the School, Edna Patterson<\/strong><\/a>, an accomplished weaver and\u00a0Mary Rogers<\/a><\/strong>, wife of former Director\u00a0Burton Rogers<\/strong><\/a>, and others. The students are identified where known.<\/p>\n

Please contact the Pine Mountain Office if you can assist\u00a0in identifying students in the photographs.\u00a0office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com<\/p>\n

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GALLERY
\n<\/b>084-086 VII LIFE WORK –<\/strong>\u00a0(47 photographs. 84-86- [2276-2315]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t