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...
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...
Dolls -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Polly Thornton [Polly Thomton?] was a self-taught doll-maker living in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Her dolls were made using bells, clothes pins, pipe cleaners, and hickory nuts. She sold her dolls at a curb market in Hendersonville, N.C. ...
Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Eleanor Vance worked with Charlotte Yale in Tryon, North Carolina where the two founded Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers in 1915. They had previously worked together managing Biltmore Estate Industries which they founded with Edith Vanderbilt in...
Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Charlotte Yale worked with Eleanor Vance in Tryon, North Carolina where the two founded Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers in 1915. They had previously worked together managing Biltmore Estate Industries which they founded with Edith Vanderbilt in...
Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This promotional brochure advertises the Tryon Craft School, started by Charlotte Yale and Eleanor Vance in 1936. Yale and Vance began their craft teaching in Asheville, North Carolina with the Biltmore Estate Industries in 1901, and their move to...
Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This sales brochure describes puppets and other products created by students at the Tryon Craft School in Tryon, North Carolina in the late 1930s. The Tryon Craft School was established in 1935 as a workshop for children led by Eleanor Vance and...
Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This leaflet provides a brief overview of work done by Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale with the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers. The women began their craft teaching in Asheville, North Carolina with the Biltmore Estate Industries in 1901, and...
Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This is an early booklet, telling the story of the work done by Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale. It describes their background in arts and crafts work, their arrival in Asheville, North Carolina to work with the Biltmore Estate Industries in...
Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This 1917 photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, shows a young worker in the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers shop. Founders of Biltmore Estate Industries in Asheville, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale moved to Tryon in 1915 and...
Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This 1917 photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, shows a young worker in the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers shop. Founders of Biltmore Estate Industries in Asheville, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale moved to Tryon in 1915 and...
Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This 1917 photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, shows several young workers in the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers shop. Founders of Biltmore Estate Industries in Asheville, North Carolina, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale moved to...
Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Toy making -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This 1917 photograph, taken by an unknown photographer, shows a wooden Noah's Ark set in the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers shop. Founders of Biltmore Estate Industries in Asheville, North Carolina, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale moved to...
