This is a photograph from the first page of Frances Goodrich's photograph album No. III. This view of the valley was taken from the teachers' house, where it looks across to the nearest neighbor. A stream with a parallel road run through the...
This photograph depicts two cars stopped in front of the cabin craft shop used by Allanstand Cottage Industries in Madison County, North Carolina during the 1910s and 1920s. The shop was constructed from the logs of the original Allan's Old Stand,...
This unsigned photograph of Tom Barnett's spring house at Peachtree, N.C. was taken by Doris Ulmann around 1933 or 1934. The spring house is just visible on the left. One can see the interlocked logs at the corner and the bark roof. In the...
This signed photograph of Frances Goodrich sitting in the doorway of a log cabin or out building was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1934. The photograph was used in Allen Eaton's 1937 book "Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands" where it was captioned...
This unsigned photograph depicting a cluster of beehives was taken by Doris Ulmann in the early 1930s at an unidentified Appalachian location. The 4 logs and 2 boxes were used as beehives. Note the holes cut into the bottom of the containers. Rocks...
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 photographic postcard depicts Bailey's Peak, seen from what became the campus of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) near Penland, North Carolina, ca. 1920s to the early 1930s. The mountain has served as inspiration to...
This map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of campus maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain...
This map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of campus maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain...
Titled The Penland Scene and Roads to Penland, these maps of the Penland School of Handicrafts (now the Penland School of Crafts) campus and the surrounding area are two of a number of maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to...
This campus map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain...
This photograph album belonged to Frances Goodrich and contains photographs documenting her years as a Presbyterian missionary in Madison County, N.C. during the late 1890s and early 1900s. The photographs reflect the formation of the Presbyterian...
This page containing two pictures identified as 'The Public Square at Asheville. - Country Home in the Blue Ridge' is from Holman D. Waldron's souvenir book 'With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' (Portland, Me.: Chisholm Bros., 1904).
Tanning Industry was the overall caption for this three-part picture from J.S. Holmes' Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina, published in 1911. The separate pictures were subtitled (A) 'Tannery of Cover & Sons, Andrews,' (B) 'Unloading bark...
By the time this postcard view of the Jarrett Springs Hotel in Dillsboro, N.C., was mailed in 1910, the hotel was already twenty-five years old. The property opened in 1884 as the Mount Beulah Hotel and was conveniently located along the Murphy...
In 1907 the Jackson County, N.C., entrepreneur and industrialist C.J. Harris built a small power plant near his Dillsboro, N.C., home in order to generate electricity for his personal use and business ventures. He subsequently expanded this...
In May 1913 the voters in Jackson County, N.C., approved a measure to relocate the county seat from Webster to Sylva. While the town of Webster had been designated as the original county seat in the early 1850s, Sylva had benefited from the...
On September 18, 1915, a crowd estimated at 3,000 people arrived in Sylva, N.C., to attend the dedication of the Civil War monument. The monument had been located prominently on the steps leading up from the town's main street to the new Jackson...
This picture highlights the Main Street of Sylva, N.C., as seen on September 18, 1915. Taken from the vantage point of the new Jackson County Courthouse, completed in February 1914 and situated on a hillside overlooking the town, the photograph...
This fold-out postcard for the Balsam Inn, built in 1905 - 1908, in the community of Balsam, N.C., contained multiple views of the inn and extended descriptions. The hotel was situated near the depot of the Murphy Branch of Southern Railway, a...
