This photograph taken around 1926 shows John C. Campbell Folk School founder, Olive Dame Campbell (right) and her sister, Daisy Dame (left), standing outside the school's Farm House. Daisy Dame, from Medford, Massachusetts, lived at the Folk...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This photograph shows the Farm House on the campus of the John C. Campbell Folk School around 1926. The Farm House was the only existing building on the school's campus when the school was founded in 1925. After a major renovation undertaken in...
This donkey carved in apple wood is a rare example of a carving made by Marguerite Butler Bidstrup. Educated at Vassar, Marguerite Butler came south to teach at Kentucky's Pine Mountain Settlement School. She traveled to Denmark with Olive...
This photograph of Sara Jane Johnson was taken by Doris Ulmann in the Brasstown, N.C. area, in 1933 or 1934. Johnson was the wife of Marion Johnson and mother of Gyp Johnson, who was an early woodcarver for the John C. Campbell Folk School. The...
This photograph of Marguerite Butler was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Butler assisted Olive Dame Campbell in founding the Folk School and served as the school's assistant director and treasurer. ...
This sound recording is an excerpt from an interview with Jean Ritchie talking about how she first met Georg Bidstrup and Marguerite Butler Bidstrup at Little Mama's cafe after a dance in Berea, Kentucky. Marguerite Butler helped to found the John...
This photograph of Marguerite Butler was taken around 1927. Butler assisted Olive Dame Campbell in founding the John C. Campbell Folk School and served as the school's assistant director and treasurer. Butler later became Marguerite Bidstrup,...
This photograph of Olive Dame Campbell (left) and Marguerite Butler (right) was taken around 1926. Butler and Campbell co-founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925. Campbell was director of the school until her retirement in 1946 and...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts Marguerite Butler (left) and Olive Dame Campbell (right) looking over a book. Butler and Campbell co-founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925. Campbell was director of the...
This promotional brochure was produced by the John C. Campbell Folk School in the early 1930s. By taking the model of the Danish Folk School and adapting it to rural mountain areas, founder Olive Dame Campbell hoped to engage a new generation of...
This 1984 newsletter of the John C. Campbell Folk School features a story on the life of Jack Hall, a "legend at the Folk School." Carving at the young age of 11, Hall was one of the original carvers who produced and sold carvings by the school's...
This goose and wild turkey, exact dates unknown, were carved from apple wood by W. J. Martin. The figures are sanded to a smooth finish, typical of the Folk School carvings. Carving well before the school's formal carving program was started, it...
This photograph of Nancy Sue Waldroup (left) and Wanda Scroggs was taken by Doris Ulmann at the John C. Campbell Folk School, in 1934, during the celebration known as Old Folks Day. The children are pictured in the window of the Log House Museum,...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
This photograph depicts Helen Gibson starting to carve on a blank. Gibson learned to carve under John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin and took additional lessons from Jack Hall. She has sold her work through the school's...
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on...
