The reverse side of a postcard featuring a view of Pineville, Kentucky, has this ''Nineteenth Semi-Annual Statement of the First State Bank, Pineville, Kentucky, At the Close of Business June 30, 1908.''
The reverse side of a postcard featuring a view of Pineville, Kentucky, has this "Nineteenth Semi-Annual Statement of the First State Bank, Pineville, Kentucky, At the Close of Business June 30, 1908."
This woven cloth sample notebook was originally compiled by Helen Wilmer Stone (ca. 1891-1978) presumably while she was working at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky. The notebook contains samples of woven fabrics glued to notebook...
This woven cloth sample notebook was originally compiled by Helen Wilmer Stone (ca. 1891-1978) presumably while she was working at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky. The notebook contains samples of woven fabrics glued to notebook...
The pattern name of this black and white image is a variation of Tennessee Trouble. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.8. Spectacles, Madison Co., Ky. 'Missouri Trouble' in Kentucky but as that name goes with half a dozen different patterns...
This photograph of Katherine Pettit was taken by Doris Ulmann in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Pettit was founder of Pine Mountain Settlement School and Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky. Pettit taught natural vegetable dyeing. Wilmer Stone...
Storytelling -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Artisans -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Pottery, American -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Caldwell County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes; Oral tradition -- North Carolina;...
Amy opens the show with her story “Daddy’s Little Helper,” which is about her relationship with her father and her experiences helping him work on cars. On Creative Corner, Doreyl continues her interview with Brant Barnes. He goes into great...
This 1920 issue of the Southern Industrial Educational Association's Quarterly Magazine includes several articles related to mountain life and the work of settlement schools in the Appalachian region. The lead article focuses on "The Tragedy of...
This three-string dulcimer was made by Kentucky luthier Jethro Amburgey. As is typical of early hand-built Appalachian dulcimers, this instrument is only partially fretted, the frets not reaching across the entire fret board. This instrument was...
This banjo was built by Homer Ledford of Kentucky in the 1940's. Ledford came to the John C. Campbell Folk School in the 1940's and began constructing dulcimers and banjos as a result of his exposure to these instruments at the Folk School. This...
This photograph of four mountain dulcimers was taken by John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) in the late 1930s. Niles accompanied and assisted Doris Ulmann on her photography trips through Appalachia, where this photograph was most likely taken. Niles, a...
A simple Patch pattern is the design name of this black and white image. The back of this photograph is marked: ""No.5, Doors and Windows, Floyd Co., Ga." In "The Book of Handwoven Coverlets", published in 1912 by Eliza Calvert Hall (1856-1935),...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Snowballs. The back of this photograph is marked: "6. Kentucky Snowballs, Knott Co., Ky." Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus a variation in pattern name is quite common from state...
The pattern name of this black and white image is Doors and Windows. The back of this photograph is marked: "No.13, Windows and Doors, Franklin Co. Va." Coverlet pattern names were never standardized thus a variation in pattern name is quite common...
Wilmer Stone Viner worked at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky before settling in western North Carolina. It was at Pine Mountain that she learned about natural dyeing. Viner's vegetable dyed wools are used for repairing tapestries in...
These documents pertain to the life and work of Herman and Mabel Estes, woodcarvers from Brasstown, North Carolina. Included are the transcript of an interview the Estes did with Edward DuPuy in 1965 and an artist's statement written by Herman...
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 text describing cornhusk doll maker May Ritchie Deschamps (1896-1982) was written for inclusion in the catalog for "Crafts of Cornhusk," an exhibition produced by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in 1981. The piece provides biographical...
