Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Thompson, Robin, 1895-1977; Photographers -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went...
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...
Hotels -- North Carolina -- Haywood County; Hotel Gordon (Waynesville, N.C.)
This page from the late 1920s brochure for the 'Hotel Gordon'� has a line-drawing illustration of the hotel, which was located in Waynesville, North Carolina. Automobiles are shown in the drawing parked in front of the hotel and the brochure...
In its February 19, 1915, issue, the Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.), ran an article entitled 'New Enterprise at Andrews' which described the formation of the Graham County Lumber Company in Andrew, N.C. According to the Journal, the company...
This scene, entitled 'The Nantahala River and Gap,' appeared in the 1904 edition of Holman D. Waldron's With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky.' According to Waldron, the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway passed through the Nantahala...
This page from the hotel register of the Penland House at Pigeon River, now Canton, N.C., was dated June 12 and 13, 1883. According to the names on the register, the hotel drew a clientele from a variety of areas. Included are individuals who...
This photograph, entitled 'From Junaluska,' shows the view available from Junaluska Mountain, in the vicinity of Hazelwood and Waynesville, N.C. According to the 'North Carolina Gazetteer' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968),...
In this photograph, a diverse crowd of men, women, and children pose in front of the Yankee Hipps Hotel in Clyde, N.C. According to the book 'Haywood Homes and History' (Hazelwood, N.C.: Oliver Scriptorium, 1993; Waynesville, N.C.: D. Mills,...
The pattern name of this blue and white fragment is known as Lover’s Knot. The source of the name Lover’s Knot is unknown. Originally part of a full-size bedcover, this coverlet fragment was made between 1840 and 1890 by Pheniah Rogers Brown...
This three-string dulcimer was made by Kentucky luthier Jethro Amburgey. As is typical of early hand-built Appalachian dulcimers, this instrument is only partially fretted, the frets not reaching across the entire fret board. This instrument was...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Pine Cone Bloom, also called Pine Bloom and Pine Burr. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.11, Isle of Patmos, Union Co. Tenn. Pineburr-". Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Sea Star. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.15, Sea Star, McDowell Co., N.C. Seven Star N.C." Frances Goodrich, founder of Allanstand Cottage Industries, collected the photograph. In “The...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Pine Cone Bloom also called Pine Bloom. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.32. Pine Bloom / Burr, Madison Co., Ky." The word "Burr" was added later, written above "Bloom”. Coverlet pattern...
