This photograph, taken in 1932 by an unknown photographer, is from the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 133, published in 1943. It is titled, "Wiliwesti's Artifacts" and shows a variety of Cherokee craft items...
The young women in this photograph are posing in a professional studio with their baskets and basket-making materials. There is no indication who they are, or who sponsored their photography, though it is likely that the photograph was made or...
The young women in this photograph are posing in a professional studio with their baskets and basket-making materials. There is no indication who they are, or who sponsored their photography, though it is likely that the photograph was made or...
This photographic postcard depicts the use of handwoven textiles in the weave pattern Sun, Moon, and Stars to decorate President Woodrow Wilson's White House bedroom around 1913. The room came to be known as the Blue Mountain Room. First Lady Ellen...
This single fold brochure was designed to promote the quilts being made by "mountain women" in the Cashiers area of North Carolina. Their quilts were sold through the Allanstand Cottage Industries shop in Asheville, N.C. during the 1910s and...
This is a photograph from the first page of Frances Goodrich's photograph album No. III. This view of the valley was taken from the teachers' house, where it looks across to the nearest neighbor. A stream with a parallel road run through the...
This letter to Frances Goodrich at Allanstand Cottage Industries was written by Allen Eaton and dated June 27, 1928. It was written on Russell Sage Foundation letterhead, where Eaton was working and through which he was introduced to the Craft...
This 1929 letter to Mrs. William Dudley Foulke is an example of the letters which Frances Goodrich sent out to Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. stockholders as she made arrangements to pass the shop on to new owners. Over the course of 1929 and...
This article describing the work of Allanstand Cottage Industries was published in the "Christian Science Monitor" on December 6, 1916. The article is directed at social workers thinking about developing a household arts industry for several...
Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This article appeared in the "Watertown Daily Times" (presumably Watertown, N.Y.) on February 8, 1917. It reports on a talk given by Frances Goodrich at the home of Mrs. C. Willard Gamble. The article reports on Goodrich's work with the...
Basket making -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Coverlets -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Dyes and dyeing -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Hand weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern; Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern;
This article about the rise of mountain industries in western North Carolina was written by Anna Coyle and published in "The Farmer's Wife" in February, 1923. Coyle writes about the revival of weaving in the mountains and how it has sparked sales...
This photograph depicts an appliqué quilt identified as the "Honey Bee" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. This photograph may have been used as an example of a quilt design available...
This photograph depicts an appliqué quilt identified as the "Poppy" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. This photograph may have been used as an example of a quilt design available...
This photograph depicts a patchwork quilt identified on the verso side of the photograph as the "Bird Cage" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Product brochures indicate that customers...
This photograph depicts a patchwork quilt identified on the verso of the photograph as the "Flying Swallows" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Product brochures indicate that customers...
This photograph depicts a patchwork quilt identified as the " Indiana Puzzle" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Product brochures indicate that customers could order a custom made...
This article was written by Helen R. Albee and published in the "American Monthly Review of Reviews," around 1898. In this article, Albee encourages philanthropists to look at the funding of the arts and crafts as a way of helping people in rural...
This draft history of the Allanstand Cottage Industries tells the story of how Frances Goodrich founded the craft cooperative. The story begins with Goodrich's work as an educational missionary in the Brittain's Cove community in Buncombe County...
This memorial to Frances L. Goodrich was written by Lucy Morgan shortly after Goodrich's death in 1944. The memorial appears to have been read by Morgan, most likely at the memorial service sponsored by the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild where...
These eight pages were written by Frances Goodrich to tell the story of Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. She begins with her longing to help mountain women, the gift of the double bow knot coverlet, her first experiences with a loom. She...
