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Photo, Print, Drawing Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, having breakfast at the Back Porch Restaurant

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Title

  • Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, having breakfast at the Back Porch Restaurant

Names

  • Ferguson, Joey (Depicted)
  • Willis, Kathy (Depicted)
  • Howard, Donal (Depicted)
  • Potter, Cletis (Depicted)
  • Helton, George "Snuffy" (Depicted)
  • Guett, Wade "Gorgeous" (Depicted)
  • Helton, Richard "Shaky" (Depicted)
  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • February 1, 1996

Headings

  • -  Year-round work
  • -  Winter
  • -  Syble's Bed and Barn
  • -  February
  • -  Services
  • -  Syble's Back Porch Restaurant
  • -  Construction
  • -  Sub-contractors
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Naoma

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  The Back Porch is a gathering place where locals come for coffee, a meal, or to take home some "fast food." Out-of-state miners and contractors stay at Syble's and eat all their meals here. Note the collection of cake molds on the back wall, marking another service provided by Syble's. Kathy Willis is taking the orders.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C064-17

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

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Chicago citation style:

Ferguson, Joey, Kathy Willis, Donal Howard, Cletis Potter, George "Snuffy" Helton, Wade "Gorgeous" Guett, Richard "Shaky" Helton, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, having breakfast at the Back Porch Restaurant. Raleigh County Naoma West Virginia, 1996. February 1. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000177/.

APA citation style:

Ferguson, J., Willis, K., Howard, D., Potter, C., Helton, G. "., Guett, W. ". [...] Eiler, L. S. (1996) Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, having breakfast at the Back Porch Restaurant. Raleigh County Naoma West Virginia, 1996. February 1. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000177/.

MLA citation style:

Ferguson, Joey, et al. Workers for the Rifle Construction Company, from West Liberty, KY, having breakfast at the Back Porch Restaurant. February 1. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/cmns000177/>.