Opened in July 1913, the Grove Park Inn quickly emerged as a premier destination in Asheville, N.C. This advertisement in the North Carolina Good Roads Association's 1916 publication Road Maps and Tour Book of Western North Carolina (Raleigh,...
Almond (N.C.); Schools -- North Carolina -- Swain County; Almond High School (Almond, N.C.)
A handwritten caption at the bottom of this photograph identifies it as the 'Almond High'� school building in Swain County, North Carolina. The brick high school building had been completed in the Almond, N.C., community in the mid-1920s. ...
Almond (N.C.); Schools -- North Carolina -- Swain County; Almond High School (Almond, N.C.)
A handwritten caption at the bottom of this photograph identifies it as the 'Almond High'� school building in Swain County, North Carolina. The building was completed in the Almond, N.C., community in the mid-1920s and, with the improvement of...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Vocational Guidance; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This document outlines the reasons why craft workers should be allowed to make low hourly wages. This particular document was most likely written in response to new minimum wage laws that would put many craft artists out of business if they had to...
Arts and crafts movement -- United States; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This document lists the individual craft artists and production centers who sold their products through the Southern Highlanders shops in New York City and Norris, Tennessee in the early 1940s. While producers were allowed to become stockholders...
Arts and crafts movement -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This document lists the common stockholders producing for the Southern Highlanders, Inc., in the early 1940s. Individual craft artists and production centers who sold their products through the Southern Highlanders were allowed to be stockholders...
The boys in this photograph are salvaging bricks from the burned courthouse in Murphy, N.C. to use for the construction of the chimney in the Community Room of the John C. Campbell Folk School. The Community Room, completed in September 1927, was...
The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild met for its fall membership meeting in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on September 29-30, 1942. Meeting minutes generally contain committee reports, financial statements, new members, announcements of regional events,...
This vertical warping mill was likely created between 1900 and 1950. The creator's name is unknown. Before running the warp for a loom, the threads must be measured for tying on. By following a consistent track around the mill, the weaver was...
