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Size | 4.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 350 items) |
Abstract | The Lynch Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association incorporated as a non profit organization in the state of Kentucky in 1994. The alumni association draws its membership from individuals who attended Lynch Colored High School, later West Main High School, from its founding until 1963 when the schools in Harlan County, Ky., integrated. Lynch Colored School in Harlan County, Ky., served African American children, kindergarten through twelfth grade, who lived in the neighboring coal camps and company towns of Lynch, Ky., and Benham, Ky. United States Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, established a segregated school system in 1923 to accommodate the children of the company's Black coal miners, many of whom had migrated from Alabama and Georgia. The collection of the Lynch (Ky.) Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association, Inc. was acquired as a part of the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP), a public humanities and archival collecting initiative directed by Karida Brown, an African American sociologist, in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an historically white institution. In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi-generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. The community which Brown studies has its origins in the coalfields of the Appalachian South and specifically the surrounding area of Lynch, Ky. The Alumni Association collection contains pictures, yearbooks, and papers related to Lynch Colored School, West Main High School, the communities of Lynch and Benham in Harlan County, Ky., and the alumni association. The pictures are of the faculty, staff, students, classrooms, athletics, and school activities at Lynch Colored School (including the elementary and middle schools) and West Main High School. Other pictures are of the coal camp town of Lynch, Ky., and surrounding communities, community members, and alumni association events. The yearbooks are for Lynch Colored High School, Lynch West Main High School, and Lynch Colored School. Papers are primarily printed items, including newspaper and magazine clippings, booklets with remembrances and local history for alumni, an alumni event program, a copy of receipts and expenditures for 1926, a copy of a 1929 employment application for the United States Coal and Coke Company, a 1959 report card, 1961 Lynch High School diploma, and certificates. Of interest are copies of school census data for 1934 and 1928-1963. Records of the Alumni Association's operations include articles of incorporation, annual reports, and membership lists and directories, and a small amount of correspondence. |
Creator | Lynch Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association (Lynch, Ky.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Laura Hart, May 2015; Nancy Kaiser, Sonoe Nakasone, and Chaitra Powell, July 2021
Encoded by: Laura Hart, May 2015
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, July 2021
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
Back to TopThe following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.
Lynch Colored School
Lynch Colored School in Harlan County, Ky., served African American children, kindergarten through twelfth grade, who lived in the neighboring coal camps and company towns of Lynch, Ky., and Benham, Ky. United States Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation established a segregated school system in 1923 to accommodate the children of the company's Black coal miners, many of whom had migrated from Alabama and Georgia. The surrounding communities also had schools for the white coalminers' children. The company hired the school system's faculty and staff all of whom were African American. Many of the teachers had attended and received degrees from the historically Black college Kentucky State College, later Kentucky State University.
The Lynch Colored Public High School, later Lynch West Main High School, supported sports teams including varsity baseball, basketball, football, and track and field. These teams competed in the Upper Cumberland Valley Athletic Association and Eastern Kentucky Conference for Colored Schools and rivals included the Harlan Rosenwald School. The high school also had student government, a marching band, chorus, cheerleader squads, a variety of clubs, and homecoming festivities. The curriculum was traditional and included courses in speech, citizenship, home economics, typing, and physical education. The first high school graduates in the system received diplomas in 1928.
In 1963, nearly ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruling against separate but equal facilities Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Harlan County, Ky., integrated.
Lynch (Ky.) Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association, Inc.
The Lynch Colored High School-West Main Alumni Association incorporated as a non profit organization in the state of Kentucky in 1994. The alumni association draws its membership from individuals who attended Lynch Colored High School, later West Main High School, from its founding until 1963 when the schools in Harlan County, Ky., integrated.
Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project
The Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP) is a public humanities initiative directed by Karida Brown, an African American sociologist, in partnership with the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an historically white institution. In 2013, the SHC joined Brown in her efforts to document a multi-generational African American community with familial ties to coal mining towns in Harlan County, Ky. Brown has conducted oral history interviews with community members and helped the SHC collect manuscript materials from the community and its social organizations.
The community which Brown studies has its origins in the coalfields of the Appalachian South and specifically the surrounding area of Lynch, Ky. Appalachia was a destination for thousands of African Americans, who left the rural deep South in the early twentieth century during the Great Migration. A company town, Lynch was established in 1917 by U.S. Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. The company supplied housing, health care, social services, commissary, churches, schools, and recreation for coal miners and their families. At its peak in the mid twentieth century Lynch's population reached 10,000 and included African Americans and whites with eastern European and British heritage. Although the mines were not strictly segregated, most areas of life, including schools, churches, commissary, and recreation, had separate facilities for Black and white people until the mid 1960s. Neighboring Benham, Ky. was also a coal mining camp and company town operated by Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harvesters Company. The Benham mines closed in the 1970s.
U.S. Steel withdrew its operations in the mid 1960s, and the population of Lynch and the surrounding areas dwindled as families, who had spent only one or two generations in Appalachia, began to move across the country, settling in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, California, Missouri, and other states. Despite the long distances now separating this close knit community, individuals and families from the Harlan County coal towns Lynch, Benham, and Cumberland retained close ties with each other and nurtured what sociologist Karida Brown has called a "post-migration diasporic identity."
Karida Brown
Karida Brown (1982-), an African American sociologist, was born in Uniondale, N.Y., to Arnita Davis Brown and Richard Brown. Karida Brown received a bachelor's degree in administration from Temple University in 2004, a master's degree in public administration in 2009 from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in sociology from Brown University in 2013. As of January 2016, she is a PhD candidate in Brown University's sociology department, and her PhD dissertation titled Before They Were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks is in progress.
Back to TopThe collection contains pictures, yearbooks, and papers related to Lynch Colored School, West Main High School, the communities of Lynch and Benham in Harlan County, Ky., and the alumni association.
Mostly facsimiles and photocopies of black and white photographs, the pictures are of the faculty, staff, students, classrooms, and school activities at Lynch Colored School (including the elementary and middle schools) and West Main High School. Other pictures are of the coal camp town of Lynch, Ky., and surrounding communities, community members, and alumni association events. The pictures are arranged into subject categories depicted in the images. Categories are Athletics, Classes and Classrooms, Faculty and Staff, Student Activities, Community, Alumni Association, and Other Places.
The yearbooks are for Lynch Colored High School, Lynch West Main High School, and Lynch Colored School.
Papers are primarily printed items, including newspaper and magazine clippings, booklets with remembrances and local history for alumni, an alumni event program, a copy of receipts and expenditures for 1926, a copy of a 1929 employment application for the United States Coal and Coke Company, a 1959 report card, 1961 Lynch High School diploma, and certificates. Of interest are copies of school census data for 1934 and 1928-1963.
Records of the Alumni Association's operations are sparse, but include articles of incorporation, annual reports, and membership lists and directories, and a small amount of correspondence.
Back to TopArrangement: topical.
The pictures are arranged into subject categories depicted in the images. Categories are Athletics, Classes and Classrooms, Faculty and Staff, Student Activities, Community, Alumni Association, and Other Places.
Mostly facsimiles and photocopies of black and white photographs, the pictures are of the faculty, staff, students, classrooms, and school activities at Lynch Colored School (including the elementary and middle schools) and West Main High School in Lynch and Benham, Ky. Other pictures are of the coal camp town of Lynch, Ky., and surrounding communities, community members, and alumni association events.
Sports represented in the athletics pictures include baseball, basketball, football, and cheerleading. Most athletics pictures are the posed team photographs. Others show individual athletes and action during games.
Most school pictures are posed photographs for a grade or a graduating class and include the teachers. Others show individually posed students, faculty, and staff. Classroom scenes show instructors and students in vocational courses including sewing, cooking, and typing. Student activity pictures show school dances and prom, homecoming celebrations and parade, marching band, fashion show, pageant, and cotillion.
Community pictures show community members both adults and children in informal settings and buildings in the town of Lynch, Ky., including the schools and the United Supply Company Store, where the coalmining families shopped for clothing, shoes, furniture and household goods, and groceries.
Most alumni association pictures are of a 2005 event honoring a beloved teacher from the Lynch Colored School, Vivian Breedlove Knight.
Notable in the pictures categorized as other places is a panoramic view of delgates to the 43rd Consecutive Constitutional Convention of the United Mine Workers of America who met in Cincinnatti, Ohio in October 1960. The convention was integrated and included women delegates.
Image Folder PF-05590/1 |
Baseball team, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/2 |
Baseball, the Greys, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/3 |
Baseball player, the Greys, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/4 |
Baseball player (outfield), undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/5 |
Basketball team, 1938-1939facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/6 |
Basketball team, 1939-1940facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/7 |
Basketball team with cheerleaders, 1953-1954facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/8 |
Basketball team, 1959 "Lynch West Main, Benham Win in Tourney"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/9 |
Basketball team, the Hornets, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/10 |
Basketball, "Lynch Bulldog Basketball Team"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/11 |
Basketball team, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/12 |
Basketball team, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/13 |
Basketball team, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/1 |
Basketball team, undated11x14 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/14 |
Basketball game with integrated crowd, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/15 |
Basketball game with integrated crowd, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/16 |
Cheerleaders , 1949-1950facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/17 |
Cheerleaders , 1957-19585x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/18 |
Cheerleaders , 1959-1960, "Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/19 |
Cheerleaders, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/20 |
Cheerleaders, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/21 |
Cheerleaders, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/22 |
Cheerleaders "Yea Team! Say Team! Fight Fight Fight", undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/23 |
Cheerleaders, elementary school, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/24 |
Football team, 1924, "The Lynch High School Eleven of 1924"facsimile |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/2 |
Football team, "The Lynch County Eleven of 1924"facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/25 |
Football team, 1946-19478x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/26 |
Football team, 1947-1948facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/27 |
Football team, 1949-19508x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/28 |
Football team, 1949-1950, "Lynch Wins State Championship"facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/29 |
Football team, 1956-19578x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/30 |
Football team and cheerleaders, 1956-1957facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/31 |
Football team, 1957-1958, "Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/32 |
Football team, 1958-1959facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/33 |
Football team, 1959-1960facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/34 |
Football team, 1959-1960, "Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/35 |
Football team and cheerleaders, 1959-1960photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/36 |
Football team, 1960-19615x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/37 |
Football team and cheerleaders, 1960-1961photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/38 |
Football team, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/39 |
Football team (white players), undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/40 |
Football team page with players' portraits, "Lads who wear the Big 'K'," undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/41 |
Football players, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/42 |
Football players, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/43 |
Football player standing with young girl, 1970s8x10 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/44 |
High Jump team, 19358x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/45 |
"West Main High School The Legendary Home of Lynch Pirates" photographic collagephotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/262 |
Basketball, cheerleaders, footballcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/263 |
Team picturescopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/46 |
Class page "School Days" with student and faculty portraits, 1948-1949facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/47 |
Class page "School Days" with student and faculty portraits, 1948-1949facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/48 |
Class page "School Days" with student and faculty portraits, 1948-1949facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/49 |
Class page "School Days" with student and faculty portraits, 1948-1949facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/50 |
Class page "School Days" with student and faculty portraits, 1948-1949facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/51 |
Class page, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/52 |
Elementary school, first through fourth grades, 1920facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/53 |
Elementary school class picture, "School Days," 1921facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/54 |
Elementary school class picture, fourth grade, Alma George Davis, 1936facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/55 |
Elementary school class picture, second grade, M.H. Harris, 1949facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/56 |
Elementary school class picture, first grade, R.C. Sweatt, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/57 |
Elementary school class picture, fifth grade, M.L. Jackson, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/58 |
Elementary school class picture, sixth grade, S.J. Harris, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/59 |
Class pictures: Elementary school, honor roll students (first through eighth grades) and physical education, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/60 |
Class pictures: Elementary school, honor roll students (first through eighth grades) and informal picture at "Benham's Prom," undatedphotocopy |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/3 |
Class pictures: Elementary school, honor roll students (first through eighth grades), undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/61 |
Class pictures: Elementary school, physical education, M.G. Knight, undated, "Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/62 |
Class pictures: Elementary school, physical education, M.G. Knight, undated,"Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/63 |
Elementary school class picture, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/64 |
Elementary school class picture, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/65 |
Elementary school class picture, undated5x7 black-and-white print photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/66 |
Elementary school class picture, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/67 |
Elementary school class picture, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/68 |
Elementary school class picture, undated5x7 black-and-white print 8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/69 |
Elementary school class picture, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/70 |
Elementary school class picture, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/71 |
Elementary school class picture, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/72 |
Elementary school class picture, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/4 |
Elementary school class picture, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/73 |
All grades, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/74 |
All grades, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/264 |
Class pictures, class pages, and classroomscopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/75 |
Graduates, [1940s]4x6 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/76 |
Graduates, 1948facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/77 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/78 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/79 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/80 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/81 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/82 |
Graduates, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/83 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/84 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/85 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/86 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/87 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/88 |
Graduates, undatedfacsimile |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/5 |
Graduates, undated11x14 black-and-white print |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/6 |
Graduates, undated11x14 black-and-white print This picture is damaged with some loss of content. |
Image Folder PF-05590/265 |
Class pictures: Graduates, undatedcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/266 |
Graduates, undatedcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/89 |
High School, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/90 |
High School, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/91 |
Speech education, Vivian L. Breedlovephotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/92 |
Speech education8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/93 |
Field trip, Mammoth Cave, 1960photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/94 |
Marching band, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/95 |
Marching band, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/96 |
Classroom, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/97 |
Classroom, undated5x7 black-and-white print photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/98 |
Classroom, undatedphotocopy |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/7 |
Classroom, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/99 |
Classroom: Typing, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/100 |
Classroom: Sewing, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/101 |
Classroom: Sewing, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/102 |
Classroom: Cooking, undated8x10 black-and-white print facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/103 |
Classroom: Library, study hall, undated8x10 black-and-white print photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/104 |
Classroom: Elementary school, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/105 |
Faculty and staff group picture, 1929facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/106 |
Alumni event, "To our administrators and faculty of West Main High School who gave the best of themselves"facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/107 |
Faculty and staff group picture, undated5x7 black-and-white print facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/108 |
Faculty and staff group picture, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/109 |
Informal picture of faculty and staff at an event, undated8x10 black-and-white print facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/110 |
Photographic collage"Lynch Colored High/West Main High School 1923-1963"Henrietta Virginia Sweatt, Charles M. Cross, William H. Craig, Mary Jackson Davis, Peter Winston Williams, and Alma George Dallas |
Image Folder PF-05590/111 |
Faculty and Staff, "Precious Memories How They Linger"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/112 |
Principal Walter L. Shobe, "To-Morrow's Children"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/113 |
Principal Walter L. Shobefacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/114 |
Caroline L. Blantonfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/115 |
H. L. Cash, Superintendent, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/116 |
Geneva Tapp Coleman8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/117 |
John V. Colemanfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/118 |
John V. Coleman, "Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/119 |
Charles M. Cross, janitorfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/120 |
Maxine B. Gregory8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/121 |
Vivian Breedlove Knight8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/122 |
Vivian Breedlove Knightfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/123 |
Vergie R. Caywood Mason8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/124 |
A.R. Miller8x10 black-and-white print facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/125 |
Anna L. Shobefacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/126 |
Walter L. Shobe, "Precious Memories How They Linger!"photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/127 |
Walter L. Shobe8x10 black-and-white print 2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/128 |
Walter L. Shobefacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/129 |
Henrietta V. Sweatt8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/130 |
Coach Eugene Taylorfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/131 |
Unidentified faculty and staff8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/132 |
Unidentified faculty and staff8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/133 |
Unidentified faculty and staff8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/134 |
Unidentified faculty and staff8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/135 |
Unidentified faculty and staff, 19412.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/136 |
Unidentified faculty and staff2.5x3.5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/137 |
Faculty and Staff: Portrait, unidentified8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/138 |
Unidentified faculty and stafffacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/267 |
Faculty and staff, undatedcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/139 |
Homecoming queen, Inez Watson, 19468x10 black-and-white print facsimile photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/140 |
Indoor event [fashion show?], 19603x3 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/141 |
Indoor event [fashion show?], 19603x3 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/142 |
[Academic tournament], integrated student group, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/143 |
Band, brass and woodwind, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/144 |
Drum major, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/145 |
Drum major, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/146 |
Graduation day, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/147 |
Graduation day, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/148 |
Homecoming queen, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/149 |
Marching band, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/150 |
Prom "The last [Junior and Senior] Prom [at] West Main High, William + Alma"2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/151 |
School Dance with theme, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/152 |
School Dance, portrait, undated2.5x3.5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/153 |
School Dance, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/154 |
Outdoor event, undatedphotocopy |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/8 |
Outdoor event, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/155 |
Elementary School Dance [cotillion?] , undated5x7 black-and-white print photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/156 |
Elementary School Dance [cotillion?], undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/157 |
Elementary school children in costume [pageant?], undated8x10 black-and-white print This picture is damaged with some loss of content. |
Image Folder PF-05590/268 |
Student Activities, undatedcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/158 |
Young woman[Phenie Pearl Almon?], 1940s3.5x4.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/159 |
Girl, 1940s2.5x3.5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/160 |
Young woman, 1980s3.5x4.5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/161 |
Woman, 1990s2.5x3.5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/162 |
Boy [Pete George?], undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/163 |
Young man, Jack [?], undated and young woman, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/164 |
Young man in khaki uniform, undated5x7 print hand colored |
Image Folder PF-05590/165 |
Young man, undated1.5x2 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/166 |
Young man, undated3x5 black-and-white print |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/9 |
Young man, undated |
Image Folder PF-05590/167 |
Man, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/168 |
Man, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/169 |
Man, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/170 |
Elementary school girl, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/171 |
Young woman, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/172 |
Woman, Lucille Riddle, undated3x5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/173 |
Woman [Fran Jones?], undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/174 |
Woman, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/175 |
Woman, undated3x5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/176 |
Elderly woman, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/177 |
Two babies, undated4x5.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/178 |
Four children, undated3x5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/179 |
Family Christmas card, "Bettye, Ben, Crystal," undated3.5x4.5 color print |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/10 |
Two women and one man, undated11x14 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/180 |
Thirteen men in business attire. J.A. Matthews, YMCA president. undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/181 |
Staff [of a restaurant?]facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/182 |
Music group, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Oversize Image OP-P-05590/11 |
Large group of women with one man outside a church, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/183 |
Lilli M. Bradley, 19472.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/184 |
Man, 1940s8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/185 |
Woman, 1940s3.5x4.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/186 |
Two women and a baby, 19663x3 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/187 |
Young man in bar, 19683x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/188 |
Woman, 19693x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/189 |
Two boys, 19693x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/190 |
Young man, 1970s3.5x4.5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/191 |
Three young men, 1970s2x2 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/192 |
Young woman, 1970s3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/193 |
Man and woman, 1970s3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/194 |
Man and woman, 1970s3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/195 |
Young man and woman, 1970s3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/196 |
Man, 1970s3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/197 |
Basketball player, 1970sphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/198 |
"Tanya, Taneisha, Jamal," 19803x5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/199 |
Three women, 19883x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/200 |
Three women, 19883x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/201 |
Small boy, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/202 |
Man, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/203 |
Woman in kitchen, undated3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/204 |
Woman [in medical office?]3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/205 |
Woman, undated3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/206 |
Woman, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/207 |
School children and adult, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/208 |
Four children, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/209 |
Large group of children, undated8x10 black-and-white print facsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/210 |
Four young men, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/211 |
Two men [at left Muhammed Ali], undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/212 |
Lillie Bell Jackson with sons, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/213 |
Woman and baby, undated3.5x4.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/214 |
Woman, man, and baby, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/215 |
Woman, man, and toddler, undated3x5 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/216 |
Two women, undated2.5x3.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/217 |
Two women at event, undated3.5x4.5 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/218 |
Three women at a religious conference, undated3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/219 |
Two women and a man, undated3x3 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/220 |
Woman and two men, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/269 |
Three women and one mancopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/221 |
Congregation and choir in church, undated4x6 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/222 |
Coalminers, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/223 |
Eastern Kentucky Social Club, Lynch Chapter, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/224 |
Eastern Kentucky Social Club, "Home Sweet Black Mountain Home," 1997photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/270 |
Community, undatedcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/271 |
Community, undated35mm roll film negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/225 |
Open casket3x3 color print |
Image Folder PF-05590/226 |
Auditorium interior, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/227 |
Building exterior, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/228 |
Coal cars on railroad tracks, undatedpost card |
Image Folder PF-05590/229 |
United Supply Company Store, exterior, 1920facsimile "The large 3 story structure made of native sandstone contained a bakery, ice plant, meat shop, clothing and shoe department, furniture store, carpet division, grocery department, and millinery shop. A truck could be driven into the basement to be loaded." |
Image Folder PF-05590/230 |
Building, exterior, 1950s8x10 black-and-white print photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/231 |
Building, interior, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/232 |
Building, interior, undated8x10 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/233 |
Construction site, 1919photocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/234 |
Construction site, undated4x6 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/235 |
Entrance to mine 31 "Safety the first consideration," undated |
Image Folder PF-05590/236 |
Grain mill, exterior, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/237 |
House exterior, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/238 |
Houses and outbuildings, undated3x3 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/239 |
Infirmary with patients and medical personnel, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/240 |
Lynch Methodist Church Colored, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/241 |
Mined coalphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/242 |
School building exterior with students on steps, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/272 |
School building exterior with students on steps, undatedcopy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/243 |
School building exterior, undatedphotocopy "Lynch Colored was completed 1921. Two frame buildings in camps one and five which housed the grade school since 1918. Professor William H. Craig was principal of Lynch Colored Public High School 1926-1929. In 1928 the first four graduates received their diplomas under Prof. Craig." |
Image Folder PF-05590/244 |
School building exterior, undated |
Image Folder PF-05590/245 |
School building exterior, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/246 |
School building exterior, undatedfacsimile |
Image Folder PF-05590/247 |
Street scene, Parade float, undated5x7 black-and-white print |
Image Folder PF-05590/248 |
Street scene, Parade, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/249 |
Street scene, Parade, undatedphotocopy |
Image Folder PF-05590/273 |
"International Congress of Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ, July 20-Sept 9 1919. E. D. Smith, Apostle. Pattons Studio Indianapolis"copy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/274 |
"International Congress of Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ, July 20-Sept 9 1919. E. D. Smith, Apostle. Pattons Studio Indianapolis"copy negative |
Image Folder PF-05590/275 |
"Holleys Triumph Resident [House]," undatedcopy negative |
Extra Oversize Image XOP-P-05590/1 |
United Mine Workers of America: Panoramic view of delegates to the 43rd Consecutive Constitutional Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1960oversize black-and-white print |
Arrangement: chronological.
Papers are primarily printed items, including newspaper and magazine clippings, booklets with remembrances and local history for alumni, an alumni event program, a 1961 Lynch High School diploma, and certificates. Of interest is a copy of an enumerating sheet of Lynch, Ky., school census data for 1934. Census information includes the name, age, parents, race, and disabilities of children ages six to eighteen living in the school district in Harlan County, Ky.
Records of the Alumni Association's operations are sparse, but include articles of incorporation, a small amount of correspondence, annual reports, and membership lists and directories.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 102183
Papers collected by Sam Howard Jr., relating to the history of the town of Lynch, Ky., especially the history of Lynch Colored High School. Papers include a 1959 report card of Elaine Lacey from West Main Street High School (also known as the Lynch Colored High School) in Lynch, Ky.; a newspaper clipping about Thomas Lynch (1854-1914), the white president of the United States Coal and Coke Company for whom the town of Lynch is named; a copy of a 1929 employment application for the United States Coal and Coke Company; a copy of "Receipts and Expenditures, Lynch Common Graded School District--(Colored), Year Ending June 30th, 1926"; a copy of a group photograph of African American coaches (John V. Coleman, Frank O. Moxley, W.L. Kean, James B. Brown, W.M. Summers, W.M. Falls, Mims, Mathis) from the Kentucky High School Athletic League (KHSAL); a copy of a group photograph of AFrican American teachers and administrators (Mabel H. Smith, E. Hortense Bothic, Maxine B. Gregory, Henrietta V. Sweatt, Anna L. Shobe, Vivian B. Knight, Geneva T. Coleman, Addie R. Miller, Edward W. Oates, Z.M. Kemp, Mary Ballenger, Mary Jackson, Alma G.L. Dallas, W.L. Shobe) of the Lynch Colored High School; one small binder of photocopied papers titled, "Colored Children: Enumerating Sheet for Recording School Census Data, Lynch Independent District in Harlan County, 1934"; and one small binder of photocopied papers titled, "Lynch Colored Public/West Main High School: Seniors and Personal Data, 1928-1963."
Folder 25 |
Papers collected by Sam Howard Jr., 1926-1963For more biographical information about Sam Howard Jr., see interview #42 in 5585. Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project Collection. |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 102182
Yearbooks for Lynch Colored High School, Lynch West Main High School, and Lynch Colored School document Appalachian education, the history of company towns and African Americans in Appalachia. Yearbooks contain photos and names of faculty and students as well as advertisements for local and national companies. Some yearbooks have handwritten inscriptions.
Lynch Colored School (Lynch, Ky.) and Lynch High School (Lynch, Ky.) yearbooks are available on the Internet Archive for 1950, 1951, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1973.
Box 2 |
The Reflector, 1949-1950Maria Henrietta Hampton. |
The Pirates, 1950-1951Photocopy. |
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The Bulldog, 1964, 1965-71, 1973-74, 1976Glen and Michele Miracle, 1969-1970; Arnita Davis, 1971; Michele Miracle, 1973; |