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...
Allen Eaton is pictured here with Kate Clayton Donaldson (ca. 1864-1960), more commonly known as Granny Donaldson, who is displaying one of her "cow blankets." She is seated in a rocking chair in the shade. A basket which appears to hold skeins...
This photograph was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, the two summers she spent in North Carolina, primarily in the Brasstown area. The portrait depicts an unidentified family seated out of doors performing daily activities. Ulmann found...
Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000), seated here on the left, also known as Going Back Chiltoskie and G. B. Chiltosky, was a renowned Cherokee Indian woodcarver who also taught wood crafts at the Cherokee School in Cherokee, North Carolina. His...
This mounted photograph shows Elmeda Walker (b. 1837) and her sister Martha McHargue (b. 1842 and sometimes identified as Caroline) outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. Walker is on the left seated at a small spinning...
This photograph, taken around 1927, shows Georg Bidstrup, Danish farm manager at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and Leon Deschamps, Belgian architect and teacher of forestry, seated on the porch of the school's Log Museum. The log cabin, which...
This photograph depicts John C. Campbell sitting on a porch during period 1912-1917.
John C. Campbell (1867-1919) was born in La Porte, Ind., on 14 September 1867 to Gavin and Anna Barbara (Kipp) Campbell, and grew up in Steven's Point, Wisc. He...
This 1920s photograph by Bayard Wootten depicts Lucy Morgan instructing Minnie Hoppas seated at the loom. The location is unknown but presumed to be the Hoppas porch in Mitchell County, North Carolina. Minnie Hoppas was to married Doc Hoppas, a...
This photograph, taken around 1926-28 by Bayard Wootten, shows Mae Gouge (1911-1994) seated at a loom in the Weaving Cabin, near Penland, North Carolina. The cabin served as the center for the Penland Weavers and Potters, the community weaving...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts Marguerite Butler seated in front of a hand-woven coverlet. Butler co-founded the John C. Campbell Folk School with Olive Dame Campbell in 1925. She served as the assistant director...
This signed photograph of Martha Nicholson was taken by Doris Ulmann around 1933 or 1934. A penciled note on the the back of the photograph identifies Nicholson as a weaver and spinner from Culberson (?), N.C. Nicholson is seated in front of a...
Mary Shell (b. 1913), a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, was born and raised on the Qualla Boundary. A renowned sash weaver, Shell looked for a craft that she enjoyed doing. In 1956 she got a job at the Oconaluftee Indian Village where she...
Mary Shell (b. 1913), a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, was born and raised on the Qualla Boundary. A renowned sash weaver, Shell looked for a craft that she enjoyed doing. In 1956 she got a job at the Oconaluftee Indian Village where she...
Mary Shell (b. 1913), a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, was born and raised on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. A renowned sash weaver, Shell looked for a craft that she enjoyed doing. In 1956 she got a job at the...
This photograph, taken around 1927, shows Olive Dame Campbell seated at her desk in her room at the Farm House on the campus of the John C. Campbell Folk School. Campbell founded the school in 1925 in Brasstown, N.C
This woodcarving depicts a traditional male fiddle maker seated on a bench and was made by Wade Martin (1920-2005) of Swannanoa, N.C. during the 1950s. The fiddle maker has a long beard and overalls, with "WHM" carved in the bottom of the bench....
This photograph of a Wade Martin woodcarving depicts a male fiddle maker seated on a bench. The man has a long beard and overalls. The picture also shows the man holding the back of the fiddle while the rest of the instrument and various tools rest...
This woodcarving depicts a traditional male fiddle maker seated on a bench and was made by Wade Martin (1920-2005) of Swannanoa, N.C. during the 1950s. The fiddle maker has a long beard and overalls, with "WHM" carved in the bottom of the bench....
This photograph shows a young man seated in front of a cabin. The oblong hole in the wall to his left is also seen in several other photographs, including a picture in ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (1922 revised ed., p. 288) captioned ''She knows...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933, shows Zillah Wilson seated out of doors in front of a spinning wheel, also called a great wheel. Zillah, and her sister, Fanny, were spinners and weavers from Highlands, North Carolina.
