Montana

crossing-barbed-wire-montana-library-of-congressSteps for crossing a barbed wire fence, Sheridan County, Montana, November 1937, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Sunday porch: Raleigh County

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A home in Raleigh County, West Virginia, May 1996, a 35 mm slide by Lyntha Scott Eiler for the Coal River Folklife Project and the American Folklife Center, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Two styles

two-styles-savannah-ga-habs-library-of-congressIron and picket fences, East Henry Street, Victorian Historic District, Savannah, Georgia, 1979, by Walter Smalling, Jr., for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Mohegan, W.V.

1-west-virginia-1938-mpwolcott-library-of-congress Gate and fence in coal miner’s front yard, Mohegan, West Virginia, September 1938, by Marion Post Wolcott, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Mohegan was a coal mining community or “camp” of McDowell County. It was abandoned in the 1940s.