This article appeared in an unspecified newspaper on August 24, 1913 and describes the work of Elmeda Walker (incorrectly identified as Martha) and her sister Martha McHargue (identified here as Caroline) creating handwoven items which will be used...
In this early 1940s photograph, Lizzie Tooni is sitting on the porch watching her daughter, Mary Wolfe use a traditional mortar and pestle to grind corn. The mortar is made from a stump; the pestle is used upright to pound corn or chestnuts into a...
This undated photograph was taken of Lizzie Skitty and Will Driver on the front porch of a log cabin in the Big Cove area of Cherokee, North Carolina. A large white oak basket is hanging from the edge roof. Such baskets could be used to gather...
Botany -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); Phlox -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);
This series of 20 original black and white photographs depicts botanical specimens of the Great Smoky Mountains. The entire set, including one image that is not in Hunter Library Special Collections, was published in a booklet titled “The...
Botany -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); Orchids -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);
This series of 20 original black and white photographs depicts botanical specimens of the Great Smoky Mountains. The entire set, including one image that is not in Hunter Library Special Collections, was published in a booklet titled “The...
Botany -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.); Rhododendron maximum -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);
This series of 20 original black and white photographs depicts botanical specimens of the Great Smoky Mountains. The entire set, including one image that is not in Hunter Library Special Collections, was published in a booklet titled “The...
Sawmills -- North Carolina, Western; Sawmill workers -- North Carolina, Westerns ; Lumber trade -- North Carolina, Western;
Early postcards illustrated life and scenery in western North Carolina. This card includes three men who are identified as Bruce M. Reager, William P. Marcus, and William L. Baity.
Botany -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.);Bugbane -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
This series of 20 original black and white photographs depicts botanical specimens of the Great Smoky Mountains. The entire set, including one image that is not in Hunter Library Special Collections, was published in a booklet titled “The...
This page containing two pictures identified as 'The Public Square at Asheville. - Country Home in the Blue Ridge' is from Holman D. Waldron's souvenir book 'With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' (Portland, Me.: Chisholm Bros., 1904).
The travel brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians'� (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, August 1923), featured on page 16 three images under the general heading 'Pisgah National Forest and...
An article titled 'Town of Whittier Is Abolished By Assembly Bill'� appeared in the January 31, 1933, issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.). An article in the January 19, 1933, issue of a separate newspaper, the 'Jackson County Journal'�...
This image shows a tree lined street scene identified as Swan Street in Biltmore, N.C. All Souls Episcopal Church is visible to the center left. This card was postmarked September 26, 1911, from Asheville, N.C.
This picture from the publication issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, 'Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to the Forests, Rivers and Mountains of the...
This page containing two pictures identified as 'Patton Avenue, Asheville, N.C. - Mountain Park Hotel, Hot Springs, N.C.' is from Holman D. Waldron's souvenir book 'With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' (Portland, Me.: Chisholm Bros.,...
A handwritten caption on the reverse of this photograph identified it as the 'Waynesville Dispensary [Drug Store],' in Waynesville, N.C. A large stock of items appears in the shelving cabinets on either side of the store. The walls and ceiling...
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...
Tanneries -- North Carolina -- Jackson County; Sylva Tanning Company (Sylva, N.C.)
This panoramic view is identified in the lower right margin as the '`Sylva Tanning Company,' Sylva, N.C.'� It has a credit line of 'Photo by Sherrill Studio, Asheville, N.C.'� The intertwined importance of western North Carolina's timber...
The family identified here as ''The Turpins'' lived on Dicks Creek, near Dillsboro, North Carolina. This photograph was featured on Album page 7 under the heading ''Tuckaseegee River.''
Identified in album caption as ''Jeff and Joe Robinson's Families in Sunday attire.'' This photograph is on Album page 5 with the heading ''Tuckaseegee River.''
A caller at my door (Xmas, 1904). The same child is identified on Album page 48 in the lower right as Walter Calhoun. This photograph is on Album page 21 with the heading ''Great Smoky Mts.''
