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    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no.1]

    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no.1]

    • Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Chairs -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Household linens -- Appalachian...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 4]

    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 4]

    • Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Chairs -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Household linens -- Appalachian...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [2008-12-27]

    • [2008-12-27]

    • Jackson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes; Music -- North Carolina -- Jackson County;

    • Amy talks about “Blue Ridge Mountains Call for Me,” the theme song for Stories of Mountain Folk. Doreyl’s guests are Mary Jo Cobb and her 96-year-old mother, Gladys Hooper. Hooper tells of her early days in Jackson County as she started her...
    • Stories of Mountain Folk
    • Waynesville Reunion, Sept. 18, 1885 [sic August 1889]

    • Waynesville Reunion, Sept. 18, 1885 [sic August 1889]

    • Confederate States of America. Army -- Anniversaries, etc.

    • The 'North Carolina Historical Review' (July 1997) identified this photograph as a Confederate veterans reunion that W.W. Stringfield, himself a veteran and the owner of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel, arranged in Waynesville, N.C., in the...
    • Travel WNC
    • Mail rider

    • Mail rider

    • Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

    • A photograph of ''The Mail Rider,'' who probably served the Medlin community in Swain County, North Carolina. In ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (p. 30), Kephart notes that, ''A mountain settlement consists or all who get their mail at the same...
    • Kephart
    • Medlin from Sugar Fork

    • Medlin from Sugar Fork

    • Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931; Medlin (N.C.)

    • Kephart lived near the community of Medlin in Swain County, North Carolina, from 1904 - 1907. This view, labeled ''Medlin from Sugar Fork (evening),'' is on Album page 15 with a general page heading ''Great Smoky Mts.'' Six previous captions with...
    • Kephart
    • "Mail rider"

    • "Mail rider"

    • Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

    • A photograph of "The Mail Rider," who probably served the Medlin community in Swain County, North Carolina. In "Our Southern Highlanders" (p. 30), Kephart notes that, "A mountain settlement consists or all who get their mail at the same place. ...
    • Horace Kephart
    • "Medlin from Sugar Fork (evening"

    • "Medlin from Sugar Fork (evening"

    • Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

    • Kephart lived near the community of Medlin in Swain County, North Carolina, from 1904 - 1907. This view, labeled "Medlin from Sugar Fork (evening)," is on Album page 15 with a general page heading "Great Smoky Mts." Six previous captions with...
    • Horace Kephart
    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 2]

    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 2]

    • Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Brooms and brushes -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Chairs -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving --...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 3]

    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 3]

    • Chairs -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Household linens -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Quilts -- Appalachian...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 5]

    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1930: plate no. 5]

    • Chairs -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Household linens -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Quilts -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Rugs -- Appalachian Region,...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1931]

    • [Handicraft Exhibition, Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1931]

    • Basketwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Chairs -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Looms -- Appalachian Region,...

    • 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...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Woven shawl]

    • [Woven shawl]

    • Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This shawl was hand woven by Mrs. Nelson (first name unknown) around 1900. The fiber is handspun wool arranged in bundles which are whip-stitched together. It has fringe on all three sides. The shawl was collected by Frances Goodrich and...
    • Craft Revival
    • Catalogue of Mountain Handicrafts

    • Catalogue of Mountain Handicrafts
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    • In 1933 the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild produced an exhibition of mountain crafts featuring the work of its members, including several from western North Carolina. The collection was not only a display, but visitors were encouraged to order...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Craftsman's Fair, 1951: Smith family]

    • [Craftsman's Fair, 1951: Smith family]

    • Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • William Perry Smith, commonly known as Willie Smith, lost both legs in a train accident. He was able to support his family, shown here with a grandchild, with the earnings he made from carving dolls and roosters. The photograph was taken by Edward...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Cherokee Training School, 1893: students]

    • [Cherokee Training School, 1893: students]
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    • This 1893 photograph was taken of students and a teacher at the Cherokee Training School in Cherokee, North Carolina and was arranged to display the variety of skills taught to students at the school. The training school for the Eastern Band of...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Cherokee crafts display]

    • [Cherokee crafts display]

    • Cherokee baskets -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • This photograph taken by Edward L. DuPuy, Jr. shows a group of Cherokee rivercane doubleweave baskets arranged on a handwoven blanket. Writing on the verso reads: "Taken 1952. Double weave baskets of river cane, drapery showing Road to Soco...
    • Craft Revival
    • [Warping the chain, front view]

    • [Warping the chain, front view]

    • Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;

    • The women in the photograph are "warping the chain," a weaving term for measuring out the threads to be used as the warp on the loom. The fiber is on spools arranged on a long rack on the right of the photograph. The woman to the left of the...
    • Craft Revival

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