Logan County, West Virginia, 1938
In September 1938 the photographer Marion Post Wolcott photographed Omar in Logan County, West Virginia, for the Farm Security Administration. These are 5 of those negatives, with the captions she wrote for them.
The negatives are federal works. They are in the public domain, they are held by the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, and anyone may reproduce them. Each caption below is hers, transcribed in full — including the parts a video has no room for.
Her captions for West Virginia name the town, not the county. The county given here was resolved against the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System, Domestic Names file for West Virginia.
Miners' children going home from store and post office, Omar, West Virginia
Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, September 1938. Library of Congress record.
Coal miners going home from work. Omar, West Virginia
Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, September 1938. Library of Congress record.
![[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Coal miners returning to and from work and children going from school along tracks, Omar, West Virginia]](img/P03.jpg)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Coal miners returning to and from work and children going from school along tracks, Omar, West Virginia]
Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, September 1938. Library of Congress record.
![[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Coal miner going home with friend after work. Many miners are lame. Omar, West Virginia]](img/P04.jpg)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Coal miner going home with friend after work. Many miners are lame. Omar, West Virginia]
Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, September 1938. Library of Congress record.
Payday, coal mining town, Omar, West Virginia
Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, September 1938. Library of Congress record.