PHOTO GALLERY
Scott's Run Photography
Scott’s Run was made famous by Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers in the 1930s who came to capture portraits of the Appalachian coalfields.
More historical photographs of Scott’s Run can be found at:
Sunday in Scotts Run
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
Coal miner's child
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Payoff at Pursglove Mine
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: July 1935
Photographer: Walker Evans
Company houses at Pursglove Mines, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
Waiting for relief check, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
Joe Zelsenik's shop that preceded Al Anderson's Shoe Repair
Date: unknown
Photographer: unknown
Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
Children of coal miner at Scott's Run, West Virginia
Date: 1935
Photographer: Elmer Johnson
Storefront, coal mining camp, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Liberty, unincorporated, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Negro family living in Moose Hall
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
Coal miners on steps of company store, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house, Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Mexican miner and child, Bertha Hill, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Main store front in coal mining town, Scott's Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Bohemian coal miners, now unemployed, since mechanization of mines, Jere, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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Sunday in Scotts Run
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
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Coal miner's child
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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Payoff at Pursglove Mine
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
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Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: July 1935
Photographer: Walker Evans
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Company houses at Pursglove Mines, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
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Waiting for relief check, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
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Joe Zelsenik's shop that preceded Al Anderson's Shoe Repair
Date: unknown
Photographer: unknown
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Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
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Children of coal miner at Scott's Run, West Virginia
Date: 1935
Photographer: Elmer Johnson
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Storefront, coal mining camp, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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Liberty, unincorporated, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Negro family living in Moose Hall
Date: October 1935
Photographer: Ben Shahn
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Coal miners on steps of company store, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house, Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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Mexican miner and child, Bertha Hill, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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Main store front in coal mining town, Scott's Run, West Virginia
Date: September 1938
Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
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