Violins; Stringed instruments; Musicians; Men; Children
Group of men and children gathered indoors, apparently to listen to Alfred Burns play the fiddle. Most sit facing the camera on wooden chairs in a wall-papered room. From left to right: Dixie Burns, an unidentified girl, Myrtle Burns, an...
Group portraits; Families; Tobacco pipes; Pipes (Smoking); Fences; Chimneys
A family portrait spanning four generations. Sarah Davidson Burns sits in the center smoking a pipe. Her son William Penn Burns is on the right. Her grandson Henry Burns sits on the left with his daughter, and Sarah's great-granddaughter, Violet...
Families; Group portraits; Men; Women; Children; Log cabins; Dwellings; Dogs
Alfred "Boy" Burns and his family pose in front of their cabin. From left to right are: Gracie, Roy, an unidentified child sitting in the lap of Alfred's second wife Vinia "Aunt Viny" Robinson, Atkins or "Smokey," and...
Families; Group portraits; Men; Women; Children; Log cabins; Fireplaces
Alfred "Boy" Burns, "Aunt Viny," and four children sit inside Burns' cabin on Goose Creek, below Cemetery Ridge. See ULPA 1982.01.391.p for another image of this family. Handwritten on bottom border: 522. Title supplied by...
First wife and children of James Anderson Burns in the side yard of their home at Second and Orchard streets in Oneida where they lived between 1910 and 1914. Left to right are Dugger, Martha E. Sizemore Burns with Robert Walker on her lap, Myrtle,...
A portrait of Harve "Cody" Burns and his family. Cody is second from right. His wife, Winnie Stidham, is on the left. Her uncle, Tommy Stidham, is on far right and Arlin "Head" Burns is third from right. A small pig wanders in...
Sarah Davidson Burns, her grandson Henry Burns, and her great-granddaughter Violet sit at the hearth inside Sarah's cabin. Sarah is smoking a pipe. Her cabin was beside the Dry Branch of Bullskin Creek. The cabin walls are lined with newspapers and...
Log cabins; Interiors; Families; Ladders; Home food processing; Rifles
The interior of Harve "Cody" Burns' log cabin. Arlin "Head" Burns, at right, uses a "gritter" to grate corn. The "stair-steps," or ladder, on the right leads to the sleeping loft. The walls are lined with...
Log cabin located near the head of Little Bullskin Creek close to Oneida. Owned by Alford "Lapper" Burns, this area was considered the ancestral home of the Burns clan. James Anderson Burns' father, Hugh Burns (1823-1879), left here...
Clay has been an integral part of my life from early childhood. The attempts of five-year-old hands to create vessels always ended up failures in my young eyes. Having had the blessings in my life to study under Richard Burns and the Master, Tom...
Professor Burns, Jasper Peters and an unidentified man sit on the lawn outside Marvin Hall on the Oneida campus. Jasper Peters, a long-time friend of Professor Burns, taught at the school in the early years and built one of the first homes in the...
Blind persons; People with disabilities; Boys; Log cabins
Arlin "Head" Burns, blind son of Harve "Cody" Burns. Arlin's brothers are on the porch of the cabin behind him. Handwritten on bottom border: 412. See ULPA 1982.01.352.p, ULPA 1982.01.434.p, ULPA 1982.01.454.p, ULPA 1982.01.455,...
Winnie Stidham Burns, wife of Harve "Cody" Burns, sits on the edge of her porch with two of her younger sons. Other family members sit and stand nearby. Handwritten on bottom border: 454. See ULPA 1982.01.352.p, ULPA 1982.01.412.p, ULPA...
Professor Burns, with a with hoe leaning against his shoulder, poses next to Elijah Gay and an unidentified boy while working on a farm. The boy may be Professor Burns' son, Dugger. See ULPA 1982.01.426.p and ULPA 1982.01.489.p for images of this...
Some of the people who were instrumental in founding Oneida Baptist Institute. From left to right are an unidentified man and boy, Alford "Lapper" Burns, unidentified man, Robert Carnahan, Martha Coldiron Hogg, Isham Hensley, Frank...
Jerry Burns on the porch of Carnahan Hall with his foot resting on a fossil and a dulcimer in his lap. Jerry Mier Burns was an early math teacher at Oneida Baptist Institute who also operated a gristmill and built several buildings in Oneida.
Portrait of three female students. Miss Della Davidson, a 1913 graduate of Oneida Baptist Institute, is on the right. The young woman on the left may be Laura Combs, a 1914 graduate, and the student in front may be Chaney Burns.
Graduation dinner in Anderson Hall in May 1913. James Madison "Matt" Hensley and Dr. Preston Jennings Jones are on the left at the front table. Lillie DeZarn sits behind the flowers on the right with Julia Barclay on her left. L. D....
Tommy Stidham poses outside the cabin of his niece, Winnie Stidham Burns, and her husband, Harve "Cody" Burns. Handwritten on bottom border: 474. See ULPA 1982.01.352.p, ULPA 1982.01.412.p, ULPA 1982.01.434.p, ULPA 1982.01.454.p and ULPA...
Professor Burns (left), an unidentified boy and Elijah Gay use hoes to plant watermelon. See ULPA 1982.01.426.p, ULPA 1982.01.459.p and ULPA 1982.01.490.p for additional images of these individuals taken on the same day. Handwritten on bottom...
