In 1901 C.J. Harris, a prominent industrialist in Jackson County, N.C., started the Harris Tannery in Sylva, N.C. The report by J.S. Holmes entitled Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina (Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1911) noted...
In this photograph dated 1903, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Luck, Sr., of Jackson County, N.C., are seen in a carriage. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Luck, Sr., was the business manager of the 'Tuckaseige Democrat' (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper. In 1890 he...
The caption in the Album reads: "Bob Barnett, Jim Stewart, and Boys." The handwritten text on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Barnett and other natives." This photograph is on Album page 43 with the heading "Great...
Both the handwritten caption on the back of the photograph and the Album caption read: "Bob's Father 'gritting' corn". This photograph is on Album page 47 with the heading “Great Smoky Mts.”
The handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Cabin at Siler's Meadows" This photograph is on Album page 41 with the heading "Great Smoky Mts." The Album page contains a general caption for all the photographs...
The handwritten caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Cabin on Siler's Bald -- 6000 ft. Granville Calhoun in doorway. Temperature 0º." This photograph is on Album page 41 with the heading "Great Smoky Mts." The...
Hand written caption on the reverse of the picture: "The Devil's Court-house (stunted rhododendron)." This picture appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1921 ed., p. 104) as ". . . . Powerful steep and Laurely . . ."...
The Album caption reads simply "The Everett Copper Mine." The text on the reverse of the picture elaborates, "The Everett copper mine. My cabin is just above it. Hampton lives in upper (1 1/2 story) house, alongside boiler house....
Horace Kephart sitting by the fireplace in the Hall Cabin. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Getting Supper. Hall Cabin." Pots are hanging in the firplace, and other cooking utensils are nearby.
The Album caption for the Granville Calhoun store in Medlin, North Carolina, states simply, "(Same) Bear skins and Summer Sled." The caption on the reverse of the picture elaborates by noting that this is, "Granville Calhoun's store,...
"The Hall Cabin (North Carolina room on left, Tennessee room on right - State line - the watershed of the Smokies - runs through the entry- Elevation, 4900 feet above sea-level- J.B. Anderson and I lived here through the three summer months...
Hol Rose, right, and Charlie Beck, left. Posed with primary parts from a moonshine still. Back of photograph has caption written in pencil in Kephart's handwriting: "Hol Rose, right. Charlie Beck, left. Taken in Bryson City a few weeks before...
A partial album caption reads, "Homeward-bound from Bea . ." The rest is torn off with the corner of the page, but may have indicated a bear hunt. This picture appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1921 ed., p. 80) as...
The Album caption between this and the adjacent photograph reads: "Hunting coons (got three out of this tree. Snap-shot at twilight)." This photograph is on Album page 23 with the heading "Great Smoky Mts."
The back of the photograph has handwritten caption that is very light and difficult to read, "Kep in winter leaning against mt. laurel a foot thick." The Album caption identifies this photograph as "Laurel near mine." This looks...
The handwritten caption on back of the photograph reads: "Louis Hampton and children." This photograph is on Album 23 page with the heading "Great Smoky Mts."
"Making Sorghum." This picture appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1922 revised ed., p. 368) as "Making 'Lasses." This photograph is on Album page 5 with the heading "Tuckaseegee River." It is one of...
