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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  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.</li></ul></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Russell_Lee_(photographer)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Russell Lee (photographer)"><span title="American photographer (1903-1986)">Russell Lee</span></a>
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4 September 1946<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1946-09-04T00:00:00Z/11</div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>