Broken Back Run: Corbin Hollow, Old Rag and Nethers People, Blue Ridge

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Mountain farms along Skyline Drive, Virginia: photo by Jack Delano, c. 1940

View in the mountains along Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by Jack Delano, c. 1940
 

Road to Corbin Hollow from Skyline Drive. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Road to Corbin Hollow. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Fennel Corbin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Fennel Corbin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Sam Corbin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Son of Fannie Corbin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Son of Fannie Corbin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Son of Fannie Corbin, fifteen years old. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

One of the Corbin children, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Mountaineer's home, Corbin Hollow, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Mountaineer's home in Corbin Hollow. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Inhabitant of Corbin Hollow, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

 
Child in Corbin Hollow, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Broken Back Run, a path to Dicee Corbin's cabin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Dicee Corbin's cabin. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Detail of cabin construction, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

One of Dicee Corbin's children, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

One of Dicee Corbin's children, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Dicee Corbin and daughter, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Barn in Corbin Hollow, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Cabin at Corbin Hollow, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

 Half-wit Corbin Hollow boy, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Old Ragged Mountain. Old Rag, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Barn on road to Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935 

Barn and outhouses at Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

 

Kitchen utensils in a Blue Ridge Mountain home, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Mrs. Dodson and one of her nine children, Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Mrs. Dodson and some of her children. Old Rag, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Postmaster Brown at Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Wife of Postmaster Brown. Old Rag, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Two of Mrs. Brown's grandchildren. Old Rag, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

House at Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

 

Barnyard at Old Rag. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Farm on the banks of the Hughes River at Nethers. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

A house in the village of Nethers. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

 

Main street at Nethers, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Post office at Nethers. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Citizens of Nethers in front of post office, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

 

Miller at Nethers, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Mill at Nethers, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Interior of mill at Nethers, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Waterwheel of mill, Nethers, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Fields near Sperrryville, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, October 1935

Rail fence, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by Arthur Rothstein, November 1937

Hilly farmland. Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, October 1937

Hezekiah Lam and daughter. Hollow folk who beg along Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, November 1937

 

Hezekiah Lam, eighty-three-year-old father with his daughter. Hollow folk who beg along Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, November 1937

Corbin Hollow ruins, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, November 1937

Trees in Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, October 1937

Farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, October 1937

Mountain farm along the Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia: photo by Jack Delano, c. 1940

View along  Skyline Drive, Virginia: photo by Jack Delano, c. 1940

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Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress