Exterior view of a house, Leslie County, Kentucky, 1949
There is a high probability that this is an early sign made by Harrison Mayes, photographed by Eliot Elisofon for the feature “The Fruitful Mountaineers” in the TIME Magazine, Dec. 1949.
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The photo doesn’t appear in the magazine, but in a blog post, that is not publicly available any more (archived version).