This undated photograph of Cherokee basket weaver Agnes Welch shows her preparing white oak splits to use in weaving a basket. Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not...
This photograph, taken circa 1972 by an unknown photographer, is of Cherokee basket weaver Agnes Welch with an unfinished white oak basket in her lap. Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee...
This undated photograph of Cherokee basket weaver Agnes Welch shows her preparing white oak splits to use in weaving a basket. Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not...
Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not learn this craft through her family. Instead, Welch learned to make baskets in school, from Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987)....
Agnes Lossie Welch (1925-1997) was known for making white oak baskets. Unlike most Cherokee basket weavers, she did not learn this craft through her family. Instead, Welch learned to make baskets in school, from Lottie Queen Stamper (1907-1987)....
This photograph of an Allanstand Cottage Industries display includes baskets, brooms, and metal fireplace tools. There are also two oval mats made from cornhusks to be used as doormats. The photograph was made on October 3, 1935 to be used for...
Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
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 draft history of the Allanstand Cottage Industries tells the story of how Frances Goodrich founded the craft cooperative. The story begins with Goodrich's work as an educational missionary in the Brittain's Cove community in Buncombe County...
This photograph shows an arrangement of baskets and a miniature chair offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the early 1900s. The source of the baskets and their makers is unknown, but early histories of the Allanstand shop often...
This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries probably during the 1920s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis, along with rustic brooms, a ladder back chair, two child-size chairs,...
This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1920s and early 1930s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis of Buncombe County, along with several pine needle baskets and...
This photograph depicts a display set up in Holderness, New Hampshire featuring products available through Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1909. The display features cornhusk hats, a hand-knotted bedspread, baskets, handwoven coverlets, an animal...
Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This photographic postcard depicts the interior of the Allanstand Cottage Industries salesroom. It shows the variety of shapes and styles of baskets sold at the shop. Several weavings hang at the left. Watercolors and photographs are above the...
This interior photograph of the Allanstand Cottage Industries salesroom was taken probably in the 1920s by Asheville photographer Herbert W. Pelton. The view shows the diversity of handmade items for sale. At the time the photograph was taken, the...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), a basket weaver of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In the photograph, Smoker is pulling apart white oak splits in preparation for making a basket. ...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), a basket weaver of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Smoker lived all of her life in Snowbird, a Cherokee community located 50 miles west of the...
This undated Indian Arts and Crafts Board photograph is of Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), a basket weaver of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Smoker lived all of her life in Snowbird, a Cherokee community located 50 miles west of the...
In this 1986 photograph, Cherokee basket weaver Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010) uses a pocketknife to finish off a white oak basket. This photograph is from a series that documents white oak basket weaving by Smoker, a member of the Eastern Band...
In this 1986 photograph, Cherokee basket weaver Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010), finishes off the inside of a white oak basket. This photograph is from a series that documents white oak basket weaving by Smoker, a member of the Eastern Band of...
In this 1986 photograph, Cherokee basket weaver Amanda Elaine Smoker (1916-2010) is working on the base of a white oak basket. This photograph is from a series that documents white oak basket weaving by Smoker, a member of the Eastern Band of...