This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s. The photographs of various craft items are accompanied by a brief description of that craft. Also included are inserts identifying craft...
Southern Highlanders, Inc. issued this certificate for 6 shares of common stock to Penland School of Handicrafts on September 22, 1938. The certificate was signed by Southern Highlanders president Clementine Douglas and secretary Frank T....
Southern Highlanders, Inc. issued this certificate for two shares of common stock to Artur's Knob Pottery on September 22, 1938. The certificate was signed by Southern Highlanders president Clementine Douglas and secretary Frank T. Dafferner....
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the early...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s and 1940s. The term "Native American" as used here refers to traditional American crafts in general rather than American Indian...
This paper gives an overview of the newly created Southern Highlanders, Inc. and places its purpose and mission in context of the history and revival or traditional craft in the southern Appalachian region. The paper was written by Clementine...
This printed self-mailing note was sent out by the Southern Highlanders, Inc. to announce the opening, on May 1, 1936, of their new retail shop on the lower concourse of the International Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City. The Southern...
This bulletin, published in 1937, provided marketing advice to weavers who were members of the Southern Highlanders, Inc. Types of products, their design, colors, and uses are discussed with the aim of helping weavers to produced woven goods that...
This document lists the common stockholders producing for the Southern Highlanders, Inc., in the early 1940s. Individual craft artists and production centers who sold their products through the Southern Highlanders were allowed to be stockholders...
This document lists the individual craft artists and production centers who sold their products through the Southern Highlanders shops in New York City and Norris, Tennessee in the early 1940s. While producers were allowed to become stockholders...
This double-sided brochure provides brief introductions to the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. Mapped and listed are 29 "production centers" which were schools, cooperatives, and craft shops that...
Southern Highlanders, Inc., organized in 1935 through the encouragement of the Tennessee Valley Associated Cooperatives, brought together the work of about sixty Appalachian craftsmen. Their shop in Rockefeller Center in New York City made...
This photograph became seperated from the Album, but appears to match the location for the Album caption "Sheriff Collecting Taxes." This picture appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1922 revised ed., p. 40) as "At the...
This letter was written by Ruth Reeves to Clementine Douglas on October 14, 1935 discussing Reeves' work as design consultant for the Southern Highlanders. Reeves outlines what she expects her duties to be.
This letter was written by Clementine Douglas to Grace Cornell at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 7, 1935. Douglas thanks Cornell and Dr. Bach for lunch and conversation. She also announces her decision to work as manager of the Southern...
The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild met for its fall membership meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee on October 2-3, 1935. Meeting minutes generally contain committee reports, financial statement, new member list, announcements of regional events,...
Mary Ewing learned weaving at the Norris School where Winogene Redding was teaching. She sold small woven items through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. Questionnaires like this one were the raw data for the exploratory study of the Craft Education...
This set of letters pertains to the receipt of a grant from the General Education Board to the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. to perform an "Exploratory Study of Craft Education in the Southern...
In 1944, the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. received a $6,000 grant from the General Education Board to study the field of crafts as an income-producing venture in the southern Appalachian area. Grant staff...
