A coal miner's child takes home kerosene for lamps in Pursglove, Scotts Run, W.Va. Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott. September 1938. Photo from the Library of Congress.

Marion Post Wolcott took this photograph in September 1938 of children in the bedroom of their house. Their mother had tuberculosis. Their father worked with the Works Progress Administration in Charleston, W.Va. Photo from the Library of Congress.

Workers at a vacuum cleaner factory, part of the Arthurdale project in Reedsville, W.Va. A 1937 photograph by Ben Shahn. Photo from the Library of Congress.

A miner taking a washtub bath in Westover, W.Va. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. September 1938. Photo from the Library of Congress.

"New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943." Edited by Betty Rivard. West Virginia University Press. 231 pages. $29.99.