Collection Description
Jean Thomas traveled eastern Kentucky taking snapshots of the mountain way of life. She was particularly interested in the music, crafts, and language patterns of the area. Included in the digital collection are 1,076 photographs of and by Jean Thomas during her travels throughout the eastern Kentucky mountains and the staging of the annual American Folk Song Festival.
Bud McCoy visits Grover Hatfield and his children, Cannonsburg, Kentucky, 1942. (ULPA 1979_033_0035)
Dr. Rice on horseback. (ULPA 1979_033_0639)
Ed Morrison playing 54-string (hammer) dulcimer. (ULPA 1979_033_0681)
Group of men on flatboat. (ULPA 1979_033_1054)
