Local Exhibit
"Logging in Pocahontas County
19th Century thru Today"
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With their hands and minds hard at work
and sweat on their brows, American workers perform a diverse array of jobs
to power our society. Whether we work for professional satisfaction and
personal growth or to ensure the well-being of ourselves and our families,
work is a part of nearly every American’s life. Office workers, factory
workers, homemakers, truckers, soldiers and the millions more who keep the
nation going through their work make great contributions not only to
industry, but also to American culture.
The Way We Worked,
adapted from an original exhibition developed by the National Archives,
explores how work became such a central element in American culture by
tracing the many changes that affected the workforce and work environments
over the past 150 years. The
exhibition draws from the Archives’ rich collections to tell this
compelling story.
The exhibition focuses on why
we work and the needs that our jobs fulfill. Our work takes place
everywhere – on the land, on the streets of our communities, in offices and
factories, in our homes, and even in space. An exploration of the tools and
technologies that enabled and assisted workers also reveals how workers
sometimes found themselves with better tools, but also with faster, more
complex and often more stressful work environments. The diversity of the
American workforce is one of its strengths, providing an opportunity to
explore how people of all races and ethnicities identified commonalities
and worked to knock down barriers in the professional world. And, finally,
the exhibition shows how we identify with work – as individuals and as
communities. Whether you live in “Steel Town, USA” or wear a uniform each
day, work assigns cultural meanings and puts us and our communities in a
larger context.
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the Schedule
The Way
We Worked, an exhibition created by the
National Archives, is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration
between the Smithsonian Institution and the West Virginia Humanities
Council.
Pocahontas County
Historical Society
Pocahontas County
Free
Libraries
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Children Work in Textile Mill 1909
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Ark on Greenbrier River 1894
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Demonstration Workers
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