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Images Of Rail Railroading Around Hazard And Perry County By Martha Hall Quigley
Images Of Rail Railroading Around Hazard And Perry County By Martha Hall Quigley
Featuring the photographs of John G. Kinner
Softcover 127 pages
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.John O. Kinner
2.Rivers Were Roads
3.Camp 4
4.Train Travel Arrives
5.Main Street
6.Mining Coal
7.Hazard Yards
8.Scenes around Hazard
9.Through the Years
INTRODUCTION
In 1987, Lawrence Oren Davis, founder of the Hazard-Perry County Museum, later called the Bobby Davis Museum and Park of Hazard and Perry County, Inc., donated a set of 296 photographs to the museum. Beulah Cooksey Cornett gave them to him around 25 years before. No information accompanied the photographs except some descriptions by Mr. Davis. Several of the images were recognizable from books and postcards; still they were obscure, unidentified photographs.
Mrs. Cornett's daughter, Betty Cornett Feagan, visited the museum in 1988 and attributed the whole lot to her great-uncle, John G. Kinner. Less than a year later, Betty Feagan brought the remaining Kinner pictures from her mother's collection to the museum. The second set contained handwritten comments on the reverse and numbers that corresponded to the first set.
In 1989, contact was established with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Rice, relatives of John Kinner in Buchanan, Kentucky. They made available to the museum a third set of pictures and negatives that had actually belonged to John Kinner's daughter, Ruth Kinner Solter. This grouping contained duplicates belonging to the other collections. Notations by Kinner's family were found on these photographs relating their experiences in Hazard.
John G. Kinner was born in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1879. In 1911, he was hired to photographically document the 1910 survey and the acquisition of the right-of-way for the North Fork extension of the Lexington and Eastern Railway Company (L&E). He continued as the official photographer during the construction of the railroad around Hazard, Kentucky. His photographs appeared in these books: The Story of Hazard, Kentucky: The Pearl of the Mountains (1913) by Louis Pilcher and 1911-1913: Years of Change (1991), and Images of America: Hazard, Perry County (2000) both by Martha Hall Quigley.
The book 1911-1913: Years of Change was published by the museum during the Kentucky Bicentennial, and many copies were lost in a museum fire in 1992. Railroading around Hazard and Perry County uses all of the pictures from 1911-1913: Years of Change and others from the Bobby Davis Museum collection.
The Images of Rail series celebrates the history of rail, trolley, streetcar, and subway transportation across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the people, places, and events that helped revolutionize transportation and commerce in 19th- and 20th-century America. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservatioh of local heritage, making history available to all.
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