This photograph is included in a scrapbook that chronicles Frances Goodrich’s early years in western North Carolina. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was among the first to promote a revival of weaving in the North Carolina mountains,...
This financial report for Allanstand Cottage Industries for 1917 provides an overall financial statement as well as an inventory for specific craft categories. Allanstand Cottage Industries was founded in 1896, but was incorporated in 1916 and...
This financial report for Allanstand Cottage Industries for 1926 provides an overall financial statement as well as a balance sheet for specific craft categories. The Status of Merchandise Account documents purchases, sales, and remaining...
This financial report for Allanstand Cottage Industries for 1930 shows the decline in sales resulting from the onset of the Great Depression. While the shop continued to be an asset to the region's craftspeople, it also felt the strain of tougher...
This draft history of the Allanstand Cottage Industries tells the story of how Frances Goodrich founded the craft cooperative. The story begins with Goodrich's work as an educational missionary in the Brittain's Cove community in Buncombe County...
This draft history of the Allanstand Cottage Industries craft shop in Madison County, North Carolina was written by shop founded Frances Goodrich in the late 1910s or 1920s. Goodrich wrote numerous articles and promotional brochures about the...
Pelton, Herbert W.; Allanstand Cottage Industries;
This photograph shows an arrangement of baskets and a miniature chair offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the early 1900s. The source of the baskets and their makers is unknown, but early histories of the Allanstand shop often...
Pelton, Herbert W.; Allanstand Cottage Industries;
This photograph shows an arrangement of coverlets and bed covers offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the early 1900s. At the far left are strips of handmade fringe in various patterns that could be added to home linens and...
Howard Studio (Asheville, N.C.); Allanstand Cottage Industries;
This photograph shows an arrangement of woven and hooked items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the early 1900s. The salesroom opened in Asheville in 1908. A note on the back of the photograph reads: "Woven textiles, hooked...
Howard Studio (Asheville, N.C.); Allanstand Cottage Industries;
This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries probably during the 1920s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis, along with rustic brooms, a ladder back chair, two child-size chairs,...
Howard Studio (Asheville, N.C.); Allanstand Cottage Industries;
This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1920s and early 1930s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis of Buncombe County, along with several pine needle baskets and...
This photograph depicts a display set up in Holderness, New Hampshire featuring products available through Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1909. The display features cornhusk hats, a hand-knotted bedspread, baskets, handwoven coverlets, an animal...
This photographic postcard depicts the interior of the Allanstand Cottage Industries salesroom. It shows the variety of shapes and styles of baskets sold at the shop. Several weavings hang at the left. Watercolors and photographs are above the...
Although this photograph is unidentified, it appears to feature one of the early Allanstand Cottage Industries salesrooms, perhaps in Madison County, North Carolina or in downtown Asheville, in the early 1900s. The woman is seated in front of...
This interior photograph of the Allanstand Cottage Industries salesroom was taken probably in the 1920s by Asheville photographer Herbert W. Pelton. The view shows the diversity of handmade items for sale. At the time the photograph was taken, the...
The Allanstand shop sold its coverlets from orders taken by looking at pattern samples. This old book originally held fabric samples created by FMS Inc. At some point after 1921, Frances Goodrich removed the fabrics the company had glued to the...
This is a photograph from the first page of Frances Goodrich's photograph album No. III. This view of the valley was taken from the teachers' house, where it looks across to the nearest neighbor. A stream with a parallel road run through the...
This photograph album belonged to Frances Goodrich and contains photographs documenting her years as a Presbyterian missionary in Madison County, N.C. during the late 1890s and early 1900s. The photographs reflect the formation of the Presbyterian...
This photograph is included in a scrapbook that chronicles Frances Goodrich’s early years in Madison County, North Carolina. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was among the first to promote a revival of weaving in the North Carolina mountains,...
This photograph is included in a scrapbook that chronicles Frances Goodrich’s early years in Madison County, North Carolina. Frances Louisa Goodrich (1856-1944) was among the first to promote a revival of weaving in the North Carolina mountains,...
