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A view of the spring house at Salt Sulphur Springs.

49. Spring House at Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, W. Va.

50. Lawn and Wooden Bridge at Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, W. Va.

51. Country Road at Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, W. Va.

People gathered on the porch and side entrance.

52. Street Scene Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, W. Va.

Track crews with tools in their hands.

53. Railroad Track Crew

54. Pearl S. Buck in Her Study

'Pearl Buck, first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Former missionary in China and author of the novel, The Good Earth, in addition to other novels and articles, hold the cablegram she received today telling her that she had received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.  The announcement of the award, which did not mention specifically any of her works, is worth about $40,000.

55. Pearl S. Buck Wins Nobel Prize

56. Pearl S. Buck

57. Pearl S. Buck

The photo was published on the Inquirer on Feb. 21, 1937.

58. Home of Pearl S. Buck, Doylestown, Pa.

'Nobel Prize Winners at Anniversary Dinner: Sigrid Undset(Left), Nobel Prize winner in Literature for 1928; and Pearl Buck, winner of 1938, meet for a chat before the Nobel Anniversary Dinner held Dec. 10 in New York City, held by the common council for American Unity.  The Anniversary Dinner in the U.S. this year was given in lieu of the annual awards made in Oslo and Stockholm, but which were interrupted by the war.  Pearl Buck said that unless a "Miracle" occurs another war might develop after the present struggle to save freedom for the world.  There were 26 other Nobel Prize winners at the dinner.'

59. Pearl S. Buck at Anniversary Dinner

'Author Pearl Buck (Mrs. Walsh) accompanies one of her adopted children, Chieko Usaki Walsh, formerly of Japan to naturalization fete.'

60. Pearl S. Buck and Her Adopted Child