This photograph by R.A. Romanes (1896-1978) has a handwritten caption that reads '10 -18 - 1936 on Franklin - Sylva Rd N.C. Ascent to Jackson Gap.'� The numbers in the caption are the date, October 18, 1936. The rest of the caption refers to...
This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the United States Department of Interior, to accompany a 1970 exhibition of “Basketry by Lucy George.” The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts...
This four-page brochure was created by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, a division of the U.S. Department of Interior, to accompany a 1978 exhibition of "Basketry by Eva Wolfe." The exhibitions were held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, an...
This Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph was most likely taken for a 1977 exhibition of Elsie Watty's white oak baskets at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual artisan cooperative in Cherokee. The body of this picnic basket, dyed with walnut root, is...
This illustrated catalog describes the classes offered at Penland School of Handicrafts, now Penland School of Crafts, during the summer of 1940. Course offerings included weaving, pottery, jewelry making, shoe making, basketry, chair caning,...
“The Remarkable Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains” is a 14-page booklet written by B.W. Wells. Bertram Whittier Wells (1884-1978), a distinguished professor of botany at North Carolina State University. The original photographs included in...
This catalog describes the classes offered at Penland School of Handicrafts, now Penland School of Crafts, during the summer of 1945. Course offerings included weaving, pottery, jewelry making, metalwork, basketry, chair caning, shuckery,...
This notebook (front cover is missing) was compiled by Isadora Williams, probably in the early 1930s, during her attendance at one of the Weaving Institutes sponsored by the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts). The...
This educational booklet accompanied an exhibit about blacksmithing titled Irons in the Fire and produced by the Mountain Heritage Center in 1992. The booklet is illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings of blacksmithing techniques,...
This 43 page booklet tells of the founding of the Appalachian School near Penland, N.C., the organization and early years of the Penland Weavers and Potters, and the establishment of Penland School of Handicrafts, now known as Penland School of...
Hydroelectric power plants -- North Carolina -- Swain County
This photograph of the Smoky Mountain Power Plant at Ela, North Carolina, near Bryson City, N.C., by R.A. Romanes (1896-1978) was dated October 18, 1937. The dam, which is on the Oconaluftee River near its confluence with the Tuckasegee River, was...
On September 18, 1915, a crowd estimated at 3,000 people arrived in Sylva, N.C., to attend the dedication of the Civil War monument. The monument had been located prominently on the steps leading up from the town's main street to the new Jackson...
In 1933 the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild produced an exhibition of mountain crafts featuring the work of its members, including several from western North Carolina. The collection was not only a display, but visitors were encouraged to order...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
Typed copy of an act from the state records of North Carolina. Washington County, North Carolina, was located in present day Tennessee. Kephart includes typed notes in red ink that this is the earliest reference to the name Great Iron Mountain that...
1821 field book notes of William Davenport that trace the North Carolina - Tennessee boundary. Kephart includes a note that it was"Copied from the original for the North Carolina Park Commission; recopied by Horace Kephart, 1928." Kephart also...
1821 field book notes of William Davenport that trace the North Carolina - Tennessee boundary. Kephart includes a note that it was"Copied from the original for the North Carolina Park Commission; recopied by Horace Kephart, 1928." Kephart also...
1821 field book notes of William Davenport that trace the North Carolina - Tennessee boundary. Kephart includes a note that it was "Copied from the original for the North Carolina Park Commission; recopied by Horace Kephart, 1928." Kephart also...
1821 field book notes of William Davenport that trace the North Carolina - Tennessee boundary. Kephart includes a note that it was "Copied from the original for the North Carolina Park Commission; recopied by Horace Kephart, 1928." Kephart also...
1821 field book notes of William Davenport that traces the North Carolina - Tennessee boundary. Kephart includes a note that it was "Copied from the original for the North Carolina Park Commission; recopied by Horace Kephart, 1928." Kephart also...
