This photograph of the Cherokee Boarding School was taken in 1890. A school for the Eastern Band was instituted as a boarding and day school in 1884 and was operated for its first twelve years by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The school...
This photograph was taken in 1890 at the Cherokee Training School in Cherokee, North Carolina. The training school for the Eastern Band of Cherokee was instituted as a boarding school in the 1880s and was operated for many years by the Society of...
Asheville (N.C.) -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks; North Carolina, Western -- Guidebooks; Mountains -- North Carolina, Western; Lindsey, T. H. (Thomas H.)
Published in 1890, Thomas H. Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina was one of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern Appalachians. According to the author, the small 98-page booklet was intended to be of interest to...
French Broad River Valley (N.C. and Tenn.); Bridges -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County; Railroad tracks -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Asheville (N.C.) -- History; Fire departments -- North Carolina -- Buncombe County
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Sanatoriums -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Long-term care facilities -- North Carolina -- Asheville;
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
French Broad River (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Pictorial works
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Hotels -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Tourism -- North Carolina
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Hotels -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Tourism -- North Carolina
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Hickorynut Gap (N.C.) -- Pictorial works; Broad River (N.C. and S.C.)
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) -- Pictorial works;
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Hotels -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Tourism -- North Carolina
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Hotels -- North Carolina -- Asheville; Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Tourism -- North Carolina
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894 -- Homes and haunts;
This image appeared in Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina and is one of many depicting the mountains and mountain towns in and around Asheville, North Carolina. One of the first pictorial guide books to describe the southern...
This letter from B.B. Royall, Hewitts, N.C., to Dr. William F. Tompkins, Webster, N.C., dated January 7, 1890, concerns prospective mineral resources. The text of the letter reads: 'I recd. the specimens of nickel &c. The yellow hard mineral is...
This picture of 'Balsam Gap' is from the booklet 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892' (Philadelphia, Penn: Levytype Co., 1892). However, there is a different caption in the lower...
