This black and white snapshot pictures a study circle at the John C. Campbell Folk School circa 1930, and shows the manner in which teaching took place at the school from 1927 when the first classes were held through the 1940s. The study circle is...
Olive Dame Campbell and Danish farm manager, Georg Bidstrup pose for a photograph outside on the grounds of the school around 1927. Campbell founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925 and served as the school's director. Bidstrup came to...
This photograph, taken in the mid-1940s, shows John C. Campbell Folk School students and community members dancing in the school's Keith House. Built in the 1930s, the Keith House housed administrative offices, a weaving room, and the community...
This photograph of Fred Otto Scroggs was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. Scroggs ran the general store in Brasstown, N.C. and was instrumental in organizing the local community support for the creation of the John C. Campbell Folk School in...
This photograph of Marguerite Butler was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Butler assisted Olive Dame Campbell in founding the Folk School and served as the school's assistant director and treasurer. ...
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...
This promotional brochure was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School in the early 1930s. By taking the model of the Danish Folk School and adapting it to rural mountain areas, founder Olive Dame Campbell hoped to engage a new generation of...
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...
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...
As a means of supporting the idea of locating the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, members of near-by communities pledged labor, building materials, time, and money. These community-initiated donations were recorded on uniform pledge...
This photograph of Marguerite Butler was taken around 1927. Butler assisted Olive Dame Campbell in founding the John C. Campbell Folk School and served as the school's assistant director and treasurer. Butler later became Marguerite Bidstrup,...
This photograph of Olive Dame Campbell (left) and Marguerite Butler (right) was taken around 1926. Butler and Campbell co-founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925. Campbell was director of the school until her retirement in 1946 and...
This photograph, taken around 1929, shows a Mountain Valley Creamery truck parked outside Fred O. Scroggs store in Brasstown, N.C. As one of the co-operatives of the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Mountain Valley Creamery provided milk, butter,...
This photograph, taken around 1927, shows Georg Bidstrup, Danish farm manager at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and Leon Deschamps, Belgian architect and teacher of forestry, seated on the porch of the school's Log Museum. The log cabin, which...
This photograph depicts the exterior of the Mountain Valley Cooperative around 1939. As one of the co-operatives put into place by the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Mountain Valley Creamery provided milk, butter, eggs, and other groceries to...
This photograph, taken around 1926, shows Georg Bidstrup, in front of a gate. Bidstrup came to the Folk School in 1926 as the Danish farm manager and gymnastics instructor. He married co-founder of the school, Marguerite Butler, in 1936. Bidstrup...
This donkey carved in apple wood is a rare example of a carving made by Marguerite Butler Bidstrup. Educated at Vassar, Marguerite Butler came south to teach at Kentucky's Pine Mountain Settlement School. She traveled to Denmark with Olive...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Georg Bidstrup, dance instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and a group of students practicing traditional folk dancing or "singing games." Bidstrup came to the school in 1926...
