This is a traditional Appalachian basket made in the 1890s by an unknown maker. The shallow circular area is woven from white oak. The handle is split and wrapped. This basket form may was traditionally used to gather fruit or flowers.
This watercolor of a mountain forest was done in watercolor by Frances Goodrich, most likely during years she spent in the Allanstand area of North Carolina. Before coming to western North Carolina as a missionary in the early 1890s, Goodrich was...
This jacket was made from linsey-woolsey fabric that was hand woven by Ann Shelton, probably in the 1890s. Shelton lived in the Shelton-Laurel Community in Madison County, North Carolina where Frances Goodrich served as a Presbyterian missionary...
This dress was made by an unknown weaver in the 1890s. It was woven in brown wool and a linen warp. It has a sailor-style collar and snap closings on the front and cuffs. It is similar, if not the same, as the dress modeled by Ettamae Deweese in...
This photograph depicts a traditional pottery jar with double handles, made in the 1890s. Not much is known about the piece or the potter. The note on the back of the photograph reads "Jar made by mountain potter - and bought from his wagon - in...
This photograph, probably taken in the 1890s or early 1900s, shows Arizona Swayney, a Cherokee student at Hampton Institute, making a basket. To the right of the photograph are several finished rivercane baskets. Swayney attended Hampton Normal...
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,...
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 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 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 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,...
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,...
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,...
The two women in the photograph are "warping the chain," a weaving term for measuring out the threads to be used as the warp on the loom. They are taking thread from the spools to the right in the photograph and winding it from peg to peg on the...
This photograph shows Frances Goodrich (hand on wagon) and others standing beside a mule-drawn wagon loaded with coverlets headed to market. The photograph was probably taken in the late 1890s or early 1900s near the Allanstand community in...
The central figure of the photograph is an unidentified man using a freshly cut tree as the basis for his job of making shingles. He appears to be using a draw knife, a common tool used for woodworking. To the right, a second figure is sawing a...
This mounted photograph shows Elmeda Walker spinning on a big wheel outside of a mountain cabin in the late 1890s or early 1900s. Walker lived in Tennessee (or Elkin, North Carolina), just west of Allanstand, North Carolina; and Frances Goodrich...
