This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s and 1940s. The term "Native American" as used here refers to traditional American crafts in general rather than American Indian crafts...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s. The photographs of various craft items are accompanied by a brief description of that craft. Also included are inserts identifying craft...
This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1931. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild (later the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild) met in...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This tri-fold brochure was used to promote the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild's Allanstand Cottage Industries shop in Asheville, North Carolina. Contents include "The Story of the Allanstand Cottage Industries by Frances L. Goodrich," a brief...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., March 1930. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild held its first official meeting in conjunction with the...
This photograph depicts regional crafts exhibited at the meeting of the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers held in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1931. The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild (later the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild) met 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 catalog describes the classes offered at Penland School of Handicrafts, now Penland School of Crafts, during the summer of 1945. Course offerings included weaving, pottery, jewelry making, metalwork, basketry, chair caning, shuckery,...
In 1944, the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Southern Highlanders, Inc. received a $6,000 grant from the General Education Board to study the field of crafts as an income-producing venture in the southern Appalachian area. Grant staff...
Qualla Arts & Craft Mutual of Cherokee, North Carolina, had a popular booth at the Craftsman's Fairs of the Southern Highlands. This overview of the display shows renowned woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey with a display of his carvings. Basket...
This 1934 memorandum from G. A. Schweppe to W.L. Sturdivant outlines Schweppe's findings and opinions after a preliminary tour through areas that would be affected by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) initiatives. This is a companion memorandum to a...
This article describes numerous examples of the Craft Revival in western North Carolina. Written by Annie Creelman, it appeared in the June 1, 1923 edition of "Southern Agriculturist." The article gives an overview of the generalized interest in...
The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild met for its annual membership meeting in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on March 27, 1931. Meeting minutes generally contain committee reports, financial statement, new members, announcements of regional events, and...
The Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild met for its fall membership meeting at Berea College in Berea, Ky., on October 4, 1930. Meeting minutes generally contain committee reports, financial statement, new members list, announcements of regional...
These official minutes document the second organizational meeting for the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild which was held at the Spinning Wheel shop in Asheville, N.C. on December 28, 1929. Meeting attendees discussed specifics of founding an...
