Mary Margaret McBride hosted a popular radio program starting in 1934. She advertised products she had personally approved. Jean Thomas apparently distributed some of these products to people living in remote areas in eastern Kentucky. Here, Jean...
Mary Margaret McBride hosted a popular radio program starting in 1934. She advertised products she had personally approved. Jean Thomas apparently distributed some of these products to people living in remote areas in eastern Kentucky. Here, Jean...
Mary Margaret McBride hosted a popular radio program starting in 1934. She advertised products she had personally approved. Jean Thomas apparently distributed some of these products to people living in remote areas in eastern Kentucky. Here, Jean...
Mary Margaret McBride hosted a popular radio program starting in 1934. She advertised products she had personally approved. Jean Thomas apparently distributed some of these products to people living in remote areas in eastern Kentucky. Here, Jean...
Boys; Women; Wheelchairs; Hospitals; People with disabilities; Writing
On the balcony of a brick building, Jean Thomas and a shirtless boy lean over another boy who, seated in a wheelchair with casts on both legs, writes on a pad of paper. The boys are likely at Stephenson orthopedic hospital in Ashland, Kentucky,...
Orthopedic braces; Boys; Women; Hospitals; People with disabilities; Writing
On the balcony of a brick building, Jean Thomas, seated, assists a shirtless boy, standing, with a brace on his left leg, with writing on a pad of paper. The boy is likely at Stephenson orthopedic hospital in Ashland, Kentucky, being treated by Dr....
Shirtless boys in hospital beds set up under an outdoor awning watch as Jean Thomas observes one of the boys writing on a pad of paper. The boys are likely at Stephenson orthopedic hospital in Ashland, Kentucky, being treated by Dr. Arthur Shade...
Jean Thomas and an older women wearing a short-sleeve shirt and slacks watches a young man named Chick Thomas pluck the strings of a mountain dulcimer with a quill outdoors in the yard of the "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland, Kentucky....
Woman in classical dress sitting with a scroll in her lap overlooking the water. The woman is framed by a circular border with decorative elements. The circle is contained inside a rectangular frame with a floral element in each of the four...
Jean Thomas, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England) with a scarf wrapped around her head, stands by the gate of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
Jean Thomas, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England) with a scarf wrapped around her head, stands by a lamppost in the snowy yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
Jean Thomas, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England) with a scarf wrapped around her head, stands by a lamppost in the snowy yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
Jean Thomas, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England), stands by the gate in the yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
Women; Costumes--Great Britain; American Folk Song Festival; Folk festivals
Three women wearing matching long black Elizabethan gowns with white ruffled collars and sleeves flank a costumed Jean Thomas. The Ladies-in-Waiting would accompany the speaker of the historical prologue that began each American Folk Song Festival.
Men; Signs (Notices); Women; Log cabins; Zithers; Stringed instruments; Porches; Children; American Folk Song Festival
John Jacob "Jack" Niles, a Kentucky-born collector, composer, and ballad singer, sits in the doorway of Jean Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky, playing a mountain dulcimer. He wears a tie and hat. Jean...
Jean Thomas, wearing a coat and tam and clutching her 'Gold Coast' briefcase from Africa, stands outside by the gate of the brick fence at her 'Wee House in the Wood' property in Ashland, Kentucky. The briefcase had been a gift from former employer...
Jack Foy, wearing a plaid shirt, suspenders, and hat, and holding a guitar, and Jean Thomas, wearing her linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England), look at a copy of her 1940 publication, "The Sun Shines Bright,"...
Jean Thomas, wearing her linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England), stands on the porch of her Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. She holds a copy of her 1940 publication, "The Sun Shines...
