North Carolina -- Description and travel; Tourism -- North Carolina;
The full title of this book is “With Pen and Camera thro' the ‘Land of the Sky’: Western North Carolina and The Asheville Plateau.” The 50-page book, published in 1904, is illustrated with large format photographs on each page. With text...
This image shows the town of Canton, N.C., from a slight elevation and with a mountain range in the background. This card, postmarked May 4, 1907, at Canton, was mailed to Biddeford, Maine. Canton grew quickly in population after it was chosen as...
This pieced quilt was made by Eunice Leona Taylor Hall of Buncombe County, N.C. in the early 1900s. Constructed of cotton prints and pieced by hand, the quilting is done in a fan pattern at six stitches per inch. Unraveled fibers from feed sacks...
This 1904 newspaper article describes the handiCraft Revival flourishing in places around the southeastern and northeastern U.S. The article appears to be written in response to a recent Bureau of Labor report and mentions the numerous charitable...