This photograph of Dillsboro, North Carolina, by R.A. Romanes (1896–1978) is dated May 21, 1939. In the far right of the picture, across Scotts Creek and the railroad track, is the Dillsboro Elementary School. Twin church spires are visible to...
The business card of George Masa (1881-1933) provides text in the center that reads "George Masa, Cameraman, Pathe News." In the upper left of the card is the street address "Princess Theatre Bldg. 30 E. College St." In the...
This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, "Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina" (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows...
This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, "Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina" (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows...
(038) Triangle; 30º 60º 90º triangle; wooden drafting tool; ink stains on top surface and edges; dark wood; 30º end has tip broken; has glue or varnish residue on underside; (041) Drafting instruments set in a leather covered case; set contains...
"Desda Robinson and cousins." Desda Robinson and possibly her cousins seen here also appear in the photograph on the lower left corner of Album page 5 as part of the "Jeff and Joe Robinson Families." These two photographs were...
(021) Box containing blades for jeweler's saw; seven blades contained in a green cardboard slip box; box has white label "ANCHOR DRAWING PEN" "K & E CO." "A 672"; blades bagged (a) slipcase (b) drawer (c-i) blades;...
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, 'Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina' (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows 'Ocona Lufta Valley'...
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, 'Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina' (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows 'Eastern Cherokee...
This photograph of Dillsboro, North Carolina, by R.A. Romanes (1896-1978) is dated May 21, 1939. In the far right of the picture, across Scotts Creek and the railroad track, is the Dillsboro Elementary School. Twin church spires are visible to...
Business cards -- Appalachian Region, SouthernPathe News
The business card of George Masa (1881-1933) provides text in the center that reads 'George Masa, Cameraman, Pathe News.' In the upper left of the card is the street address 'Princess Theatre Bldg. 30 E. College St.' In the upper right is the...
This campus map of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) is one of a number of maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to promote the school, orient visitors, students and instructors, and to entertain...
Titled The Penland Scene and Roads to Penland, these maps of the Penland School of Handicrafts (now the Penland School of Crafts) campus and the surrounding area are two of a number of maps that have been printed over the years. They have served to...
Indian wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
Goingback Chiltoskey (1907-2000), a native of Cherokee, North Carolina and a member of the Eastern Band of a Cherokee, was a renowned woodcarver. He was known for his many carvings of animals and people and worked primarily in native woods like...
This watercolor drawdown and two drafts illustrate a variation of the coverlet pattern known as St. Anne's Robe. To record a pattern, a weaver creates a draft and/or a drawdown. A draft looks much like a strip of musical notation; a drawdown is a...
This undated earthenware bowl was made by Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (b. 1921), a self-taught potter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The youngest of 12 children, she was born and raised in the Straight Fork section of Big Cove, a remote...
The front of the commencement program for the Almond High School in the community of Almond, in Swain County, North Carolina, features a dark gray floral design on the upper right and lower left corners against a lighter gray cover to highlight the...
A notation in the lower left corner of this photograph identifies it as the store of the “Whitaker Bros., Andrews, N.C.” A handwritten note on the reverse of the photograph names the two men as (left to right) Harve Whitaker and Zeb Whitaker...
This aerial view of Asheville, North Carolina in the late 1920s, attributed to George Masa (1881-1931), emphasizes the city’s growth in the 1910s and 1920s, and also the impact of the automobile on the city’s development. Throughout the...
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...
