This woven cloth sample notebook was originally compiled by Helen Wilmer Stone (ca. 1891-1978) presumably while she was working at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky. The notebook contains samples of woven fabrics glued to notebook...
This series of historic postcards depicts various sites in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Asheville is the county seat of Buncombe County and is the largest city in western North Carolina. In 1880, Asheville was linked by a rail line that...
Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) -- Pictorial works; Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) -- Description and travel; Toll roads -- North Carolina -- Mitchell, Mount (Mountain) -- Pictorial works;
The Mount Mitchell Motor Road was built over an existing route that went up Mt. Mitchell. Originally constructed as a logging rail line around the turn of the century, in 1921, the railroad track was replaced by an automobile toll road. The...
Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain); Railroad stations -- North Carolina -- Yancey County
A handwritten caption identifies this photograph as 'Railroad station top of Mt. Mitchell.' On the side of the rail cars is the wording 'Mt. Mitchell Railroad.'� In the 1910s a logging railroad on Mt. Mitchell in Yancey County, North Carolina,...
This photograph became seperated from the Album, but appears to match the location for the Album caption ''Sheriff Collecting Taxes.'' This picture appeared in ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (1922 revised ed., p. 40) as ''At the Post-Office. (Sheriff...
A view of Horace Kephart's cabin on Hazel Creek, Swain County, North Carolina. The caption reads, ''The Cabin in Winter'' This photograph appeared in ''Our Southern Highlanders,'' 1921 edition, p. 161, as ''Cabin on the Little Fork of Sugar Fork...
Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931; Mountains -- North Carolina
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 . . ." This photograph is on album...
The Album caption reads simply "Widow Davis." The caption on the reverse of the picture is more detailed and notes: 'Widow Davis' cabin on Dick Creek near Dillsboro. Fair sample of all the cabins in these mts., but better chimney than common. No...
Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931; Hunting -- North Carolina
The back of the photograph shows a partial printing of a postcard from which the photograph was cut. There is no reference as to which part of Album page 25 this photograph was originally placed, but is presumed to be middle left photograph "Toting...
A Bee-Gum. This picture appeared in ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (1921, p. 248) and in Kephart's series ''The Southern Highlander'' (part II, ''The Back of Beyond,'' Outing Magazine, p. 403) as ''A Bee-Gum.'' This photograph is on Album page 21...
Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931; Hunting -- North Carolina
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 "What soldiers these fellows...
This photograph appears with the caption ''Wilson & Cook's Mill'' in Album. This mill was featured in a variety of Kephart's publications. It appeared in ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (1922 revised ed., p. 48, and 1921 ed, p. 152) as ''A Tub Mill.''...
Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931; Mines and mineral resources
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. Everything else...
This photograph, labeled ''Cooking Supper,'' appeared in ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (1921 ed., p. 48) as ''The Author in Camp in the Big Smokies'' and in Kephart's series ''The Southern Highlander'' (part I, ''Something Hidden; Go and Find It,''...
The caption for this photograph, simply labeled ''Laurel,'' does not note that the man in the picture is Kephart. A similar picture appeared in several of Kephart's publications (see, ''Roving with Kephart,'' ''All Outdoors'' magazine, January...
This photograph, labeled "Cooking Supper," appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1921 ed., p. 48) as "The Author in Camp in the Big Smokies" and in Kephart's series "The Southern Highlander" (part I, "Something Hidden; Go and Find It," "Outing...
The caption for this photograph, simply labeled "Laurel," does not note that the man in the picture is Kephart. A similar picture appeared in several of Kephart's publications (see, "Roving with Kephart," "All Outdoors" magazine, January 1921, p....
This photograph appears with the caption "Wilson & Cook's Mill" in Album. This mill was featured in a variety of Kephart's publications. It appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1922 revised ed., p. 48, and 1921 ed, p. 152) as "A Tub Mill." It...
"A Bee-Gum." This picture appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1921, p. 248) and in Kephart's series "The Southern Highlander" (part II, "The Back of Beyond," Outing Magazine, p. 403) as "A Bee-Gum." This photograph is on Album page 21 with the...
A view of Horace Kephart's cabin on Hazel Creek, Swain County, North Carolina. The caption reads, "The Cabin in Winter" This photograph appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders," 1921 edition, p. 161, as "Cabin on the Little Fork of Sugar Fork of...
