This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries probably during the 1920s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis, along with rustic brooms, a ladder back chair, two child-size chairs,...
Howard Ford, also known as Toni Ford, was raised in the mid-west and received extensive training in various craft media. His resume includes a long list of instruction books and equipment he was involved in creating. He worked for the Penland...
This postcard, titled "To intelligently tilll the soil is a sacred calling", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains ten...
This is the cover for a promotional packet of postcards that was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains ten photographic postcards documenting the school's activities including...
This insert, written by Howard Kester, is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. Kester served as director of the Folk School in 1951. The folder...
This postcard, titled "The mind and the hand grow skillful under chisel and turning lathe", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder...
This postcard, titled "From native herbs, vegetables, and flowers, we gather colors of the rainbow", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The...
This postcard, titled "Better to teach and live. We maintain a 2000 unit poultry house", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains...
This postcard, titled "From copper and iron we create objects of beauty and utility", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains ten...
This postcard, titled "The children of the community learn the art of story telling", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains ten...
This postcard, titled "The seeing eyes of the instructor teach the feeling hands to carve", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder...
This postcard, titled "Folk tales live again through hand-made puppets", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains ten photographic...
This postcard, titled "Into our education is woven the skills of mind, hand, and heart", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains...
This postcard, titled "When day is done, we gather for song and fellowship", is part of a promotional packet of postcards was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School upon its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1950. The folder contains ten...
Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- United States;
These documents pertain to the life and work of Howard C. Ford, more commonly known as Toni Ford. Included are a biographical profile written to accompany an exhibit at the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in 1985 and two pages of biographical...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Virginia Howard, an early student of the John C. Campbell Folk School, weaving at a loom in the Keith House.
This photographic portrait of Frances Goodrich was taken in 1940 by Howard Studio in Asheville, North Carolina. Goodrich would have been 84 years old at that time. While she was no longer working directly craft artists, she continued to keep in...
This photograph shows an arrangement of items offered for sale by Allanstand Cottage Industries during the 1920s and early 1930s. Depicted are cornhusk dolls made by Margaret Revis of Buncombe County, along with several pine needle baskets and...
This is a photograph of a watercolor painting done by Frances Goodrich of a mountain woman working at an old-fashioned loom. Goodrich was educated at the Yale School of Fine Arts before coming to western North Carolina as a Presbyterian...
