Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Adult education -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This memorial to Olive Dame Campbell was featured in a 1954 issue of Mountain Life & Work, a quarterly periodical produced by the Council of Southern Mountain Workers (formerly the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers), an organization founded...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Educators -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Social aspects;
This memorial to Frances L. Goodrich was written by Olive Dame Campbell shortly after Goodrich's death in 1944. The memorial appears to have been read by Campbell, most likely at the memorial service sponsored by the Southern Highland Handicraft...
In this February 25, 1931 letter, John C. Campbell Folk School director, Olive D. Campbell, wrote to Frances Goodrich about Goodrich's offer to transfer ownership of the Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. to the recently formed Southern Mountain...
This sound recording is an excerpt from an interview with Olive Dame Campbell and features her singing the ballad Barbry Ellen (also know as Barbry Allen, Barbara Allen, and other names). Campbell was an avid folk song collector. She describes...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This talk was given by Olive Dame Campbell at the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers meeting in the spring of 1929. Here Campbell describes how representatives of seven mountain craft centers met at Penland, North Carolina in December 1928 to...
This essay tells the story of Olive Dame Campbell and her involvement with the traditional songs of the mountain region. It describes her collaboration with Cecil Sharp, British researcher, who came to the United States hoping to find some of the...
This six-page promotional brochure about the John C. Campbell Folk School was designed to attract students as well as assist with fund raising. It was written by the school's founder, Olive Dame Campbell circa 1945. This brochure was distributed...
This 4-page pamphlet was written by Olive Dame Campbell after she and Marguerite Butler traveled to Denmark and several Scandinavian locales to study the systems of education in rural areas in the early 1920s. It was used to introduce the...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Educators -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This photograph shows John C. Campbell and his wife Olive Dame Campbell on the front porch of their home in Demorest, Georgia where John was the President of Piedmont College 1904-1906. The Campbell's married in 1907 and lived in Demorest until...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This article reports on early discussions to organize the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild as an umbrella organization for Craft Revival initiatives throughout the region. The article is the published text of Olive Dame Campbell's talk to the...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This angel carved from holly wood was made by Olive Dame Campbell (1882-1954), founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School. Campbell was not a carver per se, but was the type of administrator who experienced school activities first-hand. She...
This fruit woodcarving of St. Francis of Assisi was done by Olive Dame Campbell and given to Marian Heard. Campbell did a second carving that was given to Louise Pitman. It helped to popularize the subject for the Brasstown Carvers of John C....
Craft shops -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
In this March 2, 1931 letter, Frances Goodrich is writing to John C. Campbell Folk School director, Olive D. Campbell, regarding Goodrich's offer of Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. to the recently formed Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Educators -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
There is no indication of who wrote these pages or for what occasion. Very likely it was part of the 1947 Guild presentation which gave Olive Dame Campbell honorary life membership in the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. The paper describes...
This unsigned photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows a corner in Olive Dame Campbell's bedroom at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Campbell resided in the Farm House, the only pre-existing structure on the school's property. A...
This photographic portrait of Olive Dame Campbell was taken in 1922. Campbell was one of the original founders of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. in 1925.
