Great Depression.

Scope and Contents This collection includes letters written to Myrtle Arbuckle and other individuals about the Arbuckle family history. Typescripts and photocopies of wills, estate records, obituaries, and deed indexes as well as a notebook compiled by Myrtle Arbuckle documents the Arbuckle and Estill families. Also included are funeral notices and bible records for the Estills, Arbuckles, Sullengers and related families. A short family history by the donor describes how the family members mentioned in the...

Scope and Contents

These ledgers from the Morton Jett Grocery Store in Athol, Kentucky illustrate economic life in depression-era and early World War II era Appalachia. The entries itemize all purchases and payments made by each family. These records show not only the necessities that were purchased during the Great Depression, but also the barter system that was in place throughout the mid twentieth century in this small Breathitt County Community.

Abstract

The Richards/McKinney Family Papers contains correspondence, photographs, genaology, legan and financial documents, and documents related to EKU. The collection follows Mary Frances McKinney Richards (1900-1987) and Rollin Rhoten Richards aka "Dick" (1898 - 1997).  Both Mary Frances and Dick were faculty at Eastern for the length of their careers, and remained involved in Alumni affairs until their deaths. Many items in the collection relate to Mary Frances.