This memorial to Olive Dame Campbell was featured in a 1954 issue of Mountain Life & Work, a quarterly periodical produced by the Council of Southern Mountain Workers (formerly the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers), an organization founded...
This six-page promotional brochure about the John C. Campbell Folk School was designed to attract students as well as assist with fund raising. It was written by the school's founder, Olive Dame Campbell circa 1945. This brochure was distributed...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
Drawn by John C. Campbell, this very large map serves as one of the first definitive maps of Appalachia, a region Campbell referred to as the “Southern Highlands.” In 1908 and 1909, John and Olive Campbell traveled throughout the region to...
This photograph shows John C. Campbell and his wife Olive Dame Campbell on the front porch of their home in Demorest, Georgia where John was the President of Piedmont College 1904-1906. The Campbell's married in 1907 and lived in Demorest until...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This is an invitation to an annual exhibit and sale of crafts from the John C. Campbell Folk School, held in New Jersey in the 1930s. The invitation briefly describes the purpose of the Folk School and how the practice of traditional handicraft...
This is a 1942 invitation to an annual exhibit and sale of crafts from the John C. Campbell Folk School. The invitation describes the importance of the handicraft work of the John C. Campbell Folk School for supplementing farm income, especially...
This is a 1938 invitation to an annual exhibit and sale of crafts from the John C. Campbell Folk School. The invitation briefly describes the purpose of the John C. Campbell Folk School and the crafts produced, such as iron work, vegetable dyed...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This portrait of Olive Dame Campbell was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. Campbell founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925. During Ulmann's several trips to photograph in the Brasstown area, she and Campbell cultivated a deep...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This 4-page pamphlet was written by Olive Dame Campbell after she and Marguerite Butler traveled to Denmark and several Scandinavian locales to study the systems of education in rural areas in the early 1920s. It was used to introduce the...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...