Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Warren, Arkansas

A large photo of the Bradley Lumber Company employees, taken circa 1930's, possibly through the WPA program? According to Wikipedia, "The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). It was the largest and most comprehensive New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting most every locality, especially rural and western montaine populations. It continued and extended the FERA relief programs started by Herbert Hoover and continued under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Headed by Harry L. Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. The program built many public buildings, projects and roads, and operated a large arts, drama, media and literacy projects. It fed chidren, redistributed food, clothing and housing."

This may or may not be one of those WPA arts projects. This was found on eBay and it was what the seller of the photo thought. The seller, Don Stevens, graciously shared these photos of the large photograph.


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, Circa 1930's


If you can identify any more of these people, please contact Barbara Logan.


The following people have been identified!

"My neighbor, Almond "Friskey" Mitchell has identified 18 people in the picture.
He thinks it was made in late 1929 before the depression. He also has one of the pictures.
I put a number on each one he identified" graciously submitted by Jack Scobey. Thanks Jack!

Thanks go to Dorman Woodall for identifying his father John Woodall.

Thanks go to John Claude Greenwood, Jr. for identifying his grandfather Joshua Claude Greenwood.

Thanks go to Shirley Lee for identifying William Jeff Lee. "I have a picture just like this one and the 
8th person on the front from the left is William Jeff Lee; the picture was took in the late 30's around 1938,
Jeff died in 1942. These people are also in the picture, (I am almost sure)  Dewey Rogers, and his brother,
Glen Rogers, also Mack Hooper, they all were working at the mill at the same time with Jeff Lee, and were
friends of his, but I do not know which one in the picture is them"

                                    	1. Ray Joyner                		2. R. W. Fullerton               		3. Baker Fullerton
                		4. Mary Colvin               		5. Vance Waites                  		6. Auther Graves
                                    	7. Harvey Hargraves    		8. Bill Clary, Sr.                 		9. Charley Jones
                 		10. Floyd Wiggam          		11. Austin Castleberry     		12. Carl Dollarhide
                                  	13. O. O. Adaline          		14. Steve Hickman              		15. Sandy York
                     		16. Wes Clary                 		17. Brown Black                		18. Tommy Harbour
                                  	19. John Woodall            		20. Joshua Claude Greenwood	21. William Jeff Lee - NEW! 31 March 2013


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, some identified, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, some identified, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, some identified, Circa 1930's


Bradley Lumber Company Employees, some identified, Circa 1930's



Photos courtesy of Don Stevens.



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