In this February 3, 1930 letter from Dr. Warren Wilson to Frances Goodrich, Wilson responded to Goodrich's request to liquidate stocks and sell Allanstand Cottage Industries. At the time of this letter, Wilson was employed as an administrator for...
In this photograph by Vivienne Roberts, Cherokee basketmakers Nice George and Lucy George Long are shown preparing materials to make baskets. They are in the process of cutting, scraping, and thinning white oak splits or splints into different...
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The show opens with Amy’s story “Crack Shot Momma,” which is about her mother shooting a black snake that was eating one of her chickens. “Mountain Song” accompanies the story. Doreyl’s guest on Creative Corner is John West, who is the...
In 1907 the Jackson County, N.C., entrepreneur and industrialist C.J. Harris built a small power plant near his Dillsboro, N.C., home in order to generate electricity for his personal use and business ventures. He subsequently expanded this...
When the Allanstand Cottage Industries craft shop in Asheville, North Carolina was transferred from Frances Goodrich to the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild in 1931, it presented Guild members with an outlet to sell their craft products. It was...
This brochure was developed in 1917 to help sell stock in the Allanstand Cottage Industries which was officially incorporated in 1916. The brochure explains that "the reason for changing the Industries from a private enterprise to a stock company...
These pages contain the bylaws or Articles of Incorporation of the Allanstand Cottage Industries, drafted when the business was incorporated in 1916. As the crafts business grew, Frances Goodrich decided to sell shares in Allanstand in order to...
Teague Pottery was a local pottery run by a family without professional training. They sold "all types" of pottery at area roadside stands and markets. The final statement on the questionnaire reads "Poor pottery but they can sell all they make. ...
This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts Floyd Laney carving. Laney was an early student at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Students could learn carving through the school and could also produce and sell carvings through...
This 1937 photograph of Nancy Bradley was made Chattanooga photographer W. M. Cline. Bradley is shown holding a rivercane basket in her lap. Few baskets made by Nancy Bradley are known to exist, although word of her work is legendary. Both her...
This undated photograph of Nancy Bradley was made Chattanooga photographer W. M. Cline. Bradley is shown holding four rivercane baskets. Few baskets made by Nancy Bradley are known to exist, although word of her work is legendary. Both her...
This undated white oak “vase” basket was made by Cherokee basket weaver Mary Ellen Queen. It is made in the shape of a Greek amphora with large flared handles on either side. Such non-traditional “fancy” baskets were made to sell or trade...
This bulletin, published in 1937, provided marketing advice to weavers who were members of the Southern Highlanders, Inc. Types of products, their design, colors, and uses are discussed with the aim of helping weavers to produced woven goods that...
This undated postcard reads on the back, "Chief Standing Deer's wife and daughter making baskets in front of their home. The Indian Reservation is located on the Eastern Boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Such postcards were a...
This undated postcard features a colorized photograph of a Cherokee woman making a basket at the Cherokee Indian Fair. The back of the postcard reads, "Mrs. Nina Standing Deer was a feature of the Cherokee Indian Fair as she wove her baskets...
This undated postcard shows a photograph of a Cherokee craftswoman making a basket. The back of the postcard reads, "The Cherokee Indian Reservation is adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. During the Annual Indian Fair ceremonial...
This undated pottery vase was made by Cherokee potter Mabel Bigmeat Swimmer. Mabel Bigmeat was raised on Wrights Creek in the Painttown community of Cherokee, North Carolina. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she was a...
This undated blackware pottery bowl was made by Elizabeth Bigmeat Jackson (1919-2008). Elizabeth Bigmeat was raised on Wrights Creek in the Painttown community of Cherokee, North Carolina. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she was...
This undated blackware pottery vase was made by Mabel Bigmeat Swimmer. Mabel Bigmeat was raised on Wrights Creek in the Painttown community of Cherokee, North Carolina. A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she was a third-generation...
This 1979 photograph, most likely made by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, shows a blackware water pipe that was made by Elizabeth Bigmeat Jackson (1919-2008). This coiled and modeled earthenware pipe was featured in the brochure, “Designs in...
