This photograph of Georg Bidstrup holding a carving blank was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Bidstrup came to the school in 1926 and was initially employed as the farm manager and instructor for folk...
This promotional brochure describes the purpose, philosophy, history, and activities of the John C. Campbell Folk School. It was produced by Georg Bidstrup when he became director of the school in 1952, although much of the information pertains to...
Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This sound recording is an excerpt from an interview with Jean Ritchie talking about how she first met Georg Bidstrup and Marguerite Butler Bidstrup at Little Mama's cafe after a dance in Berea, Kentucky. Marguerite Butler helped to found the John...
This photographic portrait depicts Georg Bidstrup in his office at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1952. Bidstrup became director of the Folk School in 1952, however, he had been farm manager and a central figure at the school since 1926. ...
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...
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 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 photograph of Georg Bidstrup was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. This photograph shows Bidstrup holding an Appalachian folk toy called the Limber Jack or Dancing Man. Bidstrup came to the school in...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Georg Bidstrup acting in the play, "Where Are You Going, My Good Old Man". Play writing and acting was a common practice in the early years of the John C. Campbell Folk School. ...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Georg Bidstrup acting in the play, "Where Are You Going, My Good Old Man". Play writing and acting was a common practice in the early years of the John C. Campbell Folk School. ...
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. ...
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...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Adult education -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
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 ironwork candle stick was made in the 1930s or 1940s by Oscar Cantrell (1901-1993), a blacksmith who taught at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Born in the Green Cove section of Brasstown, Cantrell came to the folk school soon after it was...
This ironwork dog was made in the 1930s or 1940s by Oscar Cantrell (1901-1993), a blacksmith who taught at the John C. Campbell Folk School. While animals were a favorite theme of the Brasstown carvers, they were unique forms in metal. Born in the...
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 1930, shows several John C. Campbell Folk School students standing outside the Spring House with pails of milk after milking cows. Milk was stored in Spring House where it was kept cool by a running spring viaduct...
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...
