Group of Mountain-Whites. Peuland family at Scaly Gap, N.C. Location: Scaly Gap, North Carolina. – Historic Reproduction
![Group of Mountain-Whites. Peuland family at Scaly Gap, N.C. Location: Scaly Gap, North Carolina., [1909] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4b/4b1a5b55f089-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Group of Mountain-Whites. Peuland family at Scaly Gap, N.C. Location: Scaly Gap, North Carolina. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Group of Mountain-Whites. Peuland family at Scaly Gap, N.C. Location: Scaly Gap, North Carolina.
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A family group of Peulands, children and adults together, posed at Scaly Gap in the mountains of western North Carolina. The caption card carries no date, but the photograph is most likely from the fall of 1909, when Lewis Hine, working for the National Child Labor Committee, was documenting rural life, labor, and childhood across the southern Appalachians. The caption's phrase "Mountain-Whites" was a common label of the day that reflects outside observers' assumptions about mountain residents more than how those residents described themselves, so the picture is worth reading with that context in mind.
| Created / published | [1909] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 0953. No date recorded on caption card. Probably fall 1909 based on captions for photos with neighboring numbers. |
| Subjects | Children. Adults.United States--North Carolina--Scaly Gap. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,051 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116590 |
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