Keywords: The school house which is on company land but the building is owned by the county - NARA - 541233.jpg Scope and content The school house which is on company land but the building is owned by the county Only two of the rooms are in use; fifty four pupils in the primer and first grade are in one room forty seven pupils in the second third and fourth grades are taught by one teacher in the second room The school is bare and dirty; there is no equipment other than a blackboard; there are not enough books nor desks to go around Apparently there was little or no attempt to teach these children the teachers entire efforts being needed to maintain asemblance of order in the crowded rooms Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company Belva Mine abandoned after explosion in Dec 1945 Four Mile Bell County Kentucky General notes 541233 Local identifier 245-MS-2305L Department of the Interior Solid Fuels Administration For War 04/19/1943 - 06/30/1947 NARA-Author Lee Russell 1903-1986 Photographer 2489414 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1946 09 04 Record group Record Group 245 Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War 1937 - 1948 Record group ARC 572 Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry compiled 1946 - 1947 Series ARC 540230 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-245-MS-2305L Other versions <gallery> File The_school_house_which_is_on_company_land_but_the_building_is_owned_by_the_county_-_NARA_-_541233 tif tif File The_school_house_which_is_on_company_land_but_the_building_is_owned_by_the_county_-_NARA_-_541233 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Coal mining in the United States |