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The Armisteads (Clarke County)

Cottonseed

Crawford Ellis

Declaration of Independence

"A Fish Basket"

GLUEMANIA

History of career (in part) of J.H. KIMBROUGH

I's Weak an' Weary

Jesse Owens

Jim Lewis, Turpentine Worker

Johnnie Gates, Truck Miner

The Lewis Family and Their Floating Home

The Life of Jim Davis

Looking Around with a Hay Farmer

Marriage of Mr. H. Graham Benners and Miss Annie LeVert Poellnitz

Mary Gilchrist Powell

Mountain Merchant-Farmer

Mountain Thinker and Experimenter

Peter McDonald, A True Story of Today

Portable Steam Engine

The Progress of Education in Alabama

Rev. Lorenzo Dow

Sallie Brown

Sallie Smith

A speckled hen and her chickens

State Laws

The Story of Katy Brumby

Terrapin Dogs

A Visit to a Farming Dairy at Chunchula, Ala.

"These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts."

NOTE: The life histories and articles presented here have been read and compared to images of the original pages, and then edited to place them in a more readable form.  Handwritten notes have sometimes been deleted, transcriptions errors have been corrected, and many questionable transcriptions have been clarified. Some misspellings have been left as they were originally typed.

On occasion, at the beginning of an article under the title, I will include a section I've called 'Tom's note:'  These are personal observations that may or may not add value or expand the meaning of the article for you.