Black-and-white snapshots, nitrate negatives, and platinum prints depicting individuals living in rural areas of Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Most of the photographs and corresponding negatives were taken by Alliance staff in locations where vocational workshops or research projects were conducted: Breathitt County, Kentucky; Pine Mountain, Kentucky; Craven County, North Carolina; Ocracoke, North Carolina; Konnarock Training School, Virginia; Pleasant Hill Academy, Tennessee, and other mountain or rural mission schools. Included are two pictures of Rural Alliance leader Orie Hatcher and friends taken in 1887 and 1901.