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,...
The Greater Western North Carolina Association's tour guide, Information to Visitors Concerning Greater Western North Carolina (Asheville, N.C.: Inland Press, 1913), described the Swannanoa-Berkeley Hotel, in Asheville, N.C., as being '[a]mong the...
This photograph of William Julius Martin carving small animals was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. Martin, also known as W. J. Martin or "Preacher" Martin, was a farmer in Brasstown, N.C. who supplemented his income with woodcarving prior...
This photograph of William Julius Martin carving small animals was taken by Doris Ulmann in the summer of 1933. Martin, also known as W. J. Martin or "Preacher" Martin, was a farmer in Brasstown, N.C. who supplemented his income with woodcarving...
This undated postcard shows a photograph of Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., an artisan cooperative established in 1946. Such postcards and photographs were distributed to promote the sales of craft items as more tourists came to the western...
