Hiking -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); Log cabins -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); Buildings -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); LeConte, Mount (Tenn.); Camp sites, facilities,...
Mt. LeConte Lodge was established in 1925 at the top of Mount LeConte, the third highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park behind Clingman’s Dome and Mount Guyot. Originally the lodge was only a tent, then a single log cabin....
Camp sites, facilities, etc. -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); LeConte, Mount (Tenn.); Buildings -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hiking -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);
Mt. LeConte Lodge was established in 1925 at the top of Mount LeConte, the third highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park behind Clingman’s Dome and Mount Guyot. Originally the lodge was only a tent, then a single log cabin....
Musicians -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Music -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Jackson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes;
On Creative Corner, Doreyl talks with Eric Hendrix of Sylva (his family is originally from Waynesville), who plays the guitar and sings one of his original songs. Amy interviews her aunt, Rena Coggins Ammons of Tuckasegee, who tells of her wedding...
This aerial view of Asheville, North Carolina in the late 1920s, attributed to George Masa (1881-1931), emphasizes the city's growth in the 1910s and 1920s, and also the impact of the automobile on the city's development. Throughout the period,...
This pamphlet entitled 'Road Laws of Swain County, 1923' (Observer Printing House, Charlotte, N.C.) contains, beginning on page 20, the text of a bill authorized by the North Carolina General Assembly entitled 'H.B. 438. S.B. 447 An Act to Repeal...
This pamphlet entitled 'Road Laws of Swain County, 1923' (Observer Printing House, Charlotte, N.C.) contains, beginning on page 20, the text of a bill authorized by the North Carolina General Assembly entitled 'H.B. 438. S.B. 447 An Act to Repeal...
This pamphlet entitled 'Road Laws of Swain County, 1923' (Observer Printing House, Charlotte, N.C.) contains, beginning on page 20, the text of a bill authorized by the North Carolina General Assembly entitled 'H.B. 438. S.B. 447 An Act to Repeal...
The North Carolina Good Roads Association's Road Maps and Tour Book of Western North Carolina (1916) included an advertisement and picture for the Waynesville Auto Repair Company. Another advertisement in The 1916 Pictorial Story of Haywood County...
The extent of the Champion Fibre Mills may be seen in this perspective taken from a slight elevation. The sender of this postcard view of the large pulp mill noted that the building marked with a '1' showed the boiler house 'exactly as it looks...
In response to a request in 1954 from Louise Pitman, director of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, traditional woodworker Shadrach Mace sent her this letter along with a series of snapshots with captions on the back describing the processes he...
This undated black and white promotional photograph shows seven different kinds of pewter buttons produced by the Penland Weavers and Potters sometime during the period 1940-1967. Handwritten on the back: "Pewter or Copper 1. Acorn .20 each; 2. -...
This undated black and white promotional photograph shows a linen place mat and napkin woven and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters during the period 1940-1967. Handwritten on the back: "All Linen place mats & napkins, White: 2.50 each mat...
This undated black and white promotional photograph shows examples of napkin clips and a bookmark produced and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters sometime during the period 1940-1967. Handwritten below the photograph is a caption that reads...
This undated black and white promotional photograph shows three examples of drawstring aprons woven and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters sometime during the period 1940-1967. Handwritten on the back: "Aprons, 3.50 each"
This undated black and white promotional photograph shows a cotton place mat and napkin woven and sold by the Penland Weavers and Potters sometime during the period 1940-1967. Handwritten on the back: "Honeysuckle mats 1.50 ea.; matching napkins...
This is a 1937 invitation to an annual exhibit and sale of crafts from the John C. Campbell Folk School. The invitation emphasizes the popular woodcarvings, but also mentions other woodwork, vegetable dyed textiles, ironwork, and brooms. This...
Art metal-work -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Pewtercraft;
These pewter buttons were hand made in the 1930s by an unidentified metal smith producing items for sale through the Penland Weavers and Potters, Penland, N.C. These buttons feature two holes and were sold for $.50 a pair. Penland pewterwork was...
The Highland Highlights was a newsletter "published every once in a while by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild." It usually gave members news from the shops, information from and about Guild meetings, tips and reminders, as well as news of...
