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Carrier at a Mountain School

Location : Hindman, KY
Date : Jan 11, 1938
Agency : WPA
Owner : NARA (SPB)
Medium : B&W Photo
Control Number : RG 69-13-12785-C

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Description : Works Progress Administration Pack Horse Librarians make regular calls at mountain schools where children are furnished with books for themselves and books to read to their illiterate parents and elders. The little native stone school shown here was built by the WPA in Kentucky and replaced an antiquated log schools.

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