This item, page 81 from a previous notebook, was pasted on to a journal page. A handwritten page number "97" has been erased from the upper right corner. Discoloration on this page is due to acid contamination from a newspaper clipping on...
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...
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,...
Hol Rose, right, and Charlie Beck, left. Posed with primary parts from a moonshine still. Back of photograph has caption written in pencil in Kephart's handwriting: "Hol Rose, right. Charlie Beck, left. Taken in Bryson City a few weeks before...
A newspaper clipping from the June 4, 1922 "New York Times" titled "St. Louis in Lead with 426 Murders." This page was included in journal of notes for Kephart's detective story "Trail of a Bullet."
Notes for use in "Our Southern Highlanders." The note dated November 30, 1904, is used on page 41 of "Our Southern Highlanders." The note on the journal page reads: "Near Medlin. Mountain children and a few women...
Notes outlining the writing strategy for "Our Southern Highlanders." On this journal page, describing "Method" for writing, Kephart outlines the need for "Facts," "Anecdotes," "Native Comments....
This journal page has notes that are quoted in "Our Southern Highlanders": "Although they are devoted to their homes and kindred, domestic affection is rarely expressed."
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...
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...
This photograph offers a rooftop view of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s procession down Main Street of Sylva, North Carolina. President Roosevelt traveled by automobile from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Asheville, N.C. on a tour of the Great...
