(029 a) Case for landing net; with "I-D-L LANDING NET: STEEL COLLAPSING FRAME WITH 12 INCH BAMBOO HANDLE"; very worn - stained, and seams are ripped, insect holes in fabric; label on case is in very poor condition; cotton; tied at one end with...
Tackle box; Metal tackle box painted black with an assortment of fishing hooks and lures; stamped on the inside of the lid "THE STANDARD TACKLE BOX MADE BY THE ARMSTRONG MFG. CO. HUNTINGTON, W. VA." There is a metal divider separating the lid from...
This page with two pictures is from the report by Heinrich Ries, "Clay Deposits and Clay Industry in North Carolina" (Raleigh: G.V. Barnes, Public Printer, 1897). It shows the "Kaolin Washing and Drying Plant, Harris Clay Co., Near Webster" (top)...
This undated postcard reads on the back, "Chief Standing Deer's wife and daughter making baskets in front of their home. The Indian Reservation is located on the Eastern Boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Such postcards were a...
This picture of 'Balsam Gap' is from the booklet 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892' (Philadelphia, Penn: Levytype Co., 1892). However, there is a different caption in the lower...
Tackle box; Metal tackle box painted black with an assortment of fishing hooks and lures; stamped on the inside of the lid ''THE STANDARD TACKLE BOX MADE BY THE ARMSTRONG MFG. CO. HUNTINGTON, W. VA.'' There is a metal divider separating the lid...
(021) Box containing blades for jeweler's saw; seven blades contained in a green cardboard slip box; box has white label ''ANCHOR DRAWING PEN'' ''K & E CO.'' ''A 672''; blades bagged a) slipcase (b) drawer (c-i) blades; (036) French curve; wooden;...
(029 a) Case for landing net; with ''I-D-L LANDING NET: STEEL COLLAPSING FRAME WITH 12 INCH BAMBOO HANDLE''; very worn - stained, and seams are ripped, insect holes in fabric; label on case is in very poor condition; cotton; tied at one end with...
(021) Box containing blades for jeweler's saw; seven blades contained in a green cardboard slip box; box has white label "ANCHOR DRAWING PEN" "K & E CO." "A 672"; blades bagged a) slipcase (b) drawer (c-i) blades; (036) French curve; wooden;...
This photographic postcard of an unidentified woman and child shows a great wheel or walking wheel, which was traditionally used to spin cotton or short-staple wool into thread. Such wheels were often used by craftswomen in cottage industries to...
Hydroelectric power plants -- North Carolina -- Swain County;
Among the featured headlines the August 27, 1929 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) was the article 'Power Co. Will Build Nantahala Dam this Fall,'� reporting on plans of the newly formed Nantahala Power and Light Company for a hydroelectric...
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...
In 1901 C.J. Harris, a prominent industrialist in Jackson County, N.C., started the Harris Tannery in Sylva, N.C. The report by J.S. Holmes entitled Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina (Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1911) noted...
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, 'Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina' (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows 'Eastern Cherokee...
The Haywood County Court House seen in this picture from the booklet 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892' (Philadelphia, Penn: Levytype Co., 1892) was the third county court house...
This illustration from Thomas H. Lindsey's 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890) shows 'South Main Street, Looking North' in Asheville, N.C.
This drawing of the 'Swannanoa Hotel, Asheville, N.C.' was featured in the book by Thomas H. Lindsey, 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890).
This advertisement for the Turnpike Hotel from Thomas H. Lindsey's book 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890), proclaimed it to be 'A Delightful Home in the Heart of the...
This illustration captioned 'Mt. Pisgah from Battery Park' is from Harriet Adams Sawyer book 'Souvenir of Asheville or the Skyland' (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1892).
Griswold meat grinder; plated iron; cast on handle arm ''THE GRISWOLD MFG. CO. ERIE PA'' ''2458''; cast on grinder body ''GRISWOLD'' ''NO 110'' ''2300'' and the Griswold plus symbol; with wooden handle; rust is present; missing the grinding plate;...
