Image: The Arthurdale Inn in the Arthurdale community near Kingwood, West Virginia LCCN2015631567
Description: Title: The Arthurdale Inn in the Arthurdale community near Kingwood, West Virginia Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Named for Richard Arthur, former owner of the land which was sold to the federal government under a tax default. The first of many New Deal planned communities established under Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration in the 1930s, it was intended to take impoverished laborers, farmers, and coal miners and move them to a modern rural community that would allow them to become economically self-sufficient.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Title: The Arthurdale Inn in the Arthurdale community near Kingwood, West Virginia LCCN2015631567
Credit: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2015631567 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/31400/31492a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.31492
Author: Carol M. Highsmith
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