Title	Aunt Harriet at the Flax Wheel, Penland, N.C.
Creator	Gray and Thompson Advertising (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Contributor	Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959
Medium of Original	postcards
Date of Orginal	1935/1936
Dimensions	3.25" x 5.25"
Description	This postcard depicts two women spinning flax in front of the fireplace in the newly constructed Edward F. Worst Craft House adjacent to the campus of the Appalachian School in Penland, North Carolina, ca. 1935-1936. The older woman seated to the right is Harriet Conley (1855-1940), a Western North Carolina native who taught flax spinning at the school during the 1930s. The woman seated on the left may be either Harriet or Janet Turnball, both of whom were students in the summer Weaving Institutes from Casanova, VA. The photograph for this postcard was taken by Bayard Wootten. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the umbrella institution under which the Penland Weavers and Potters were organized and the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) was established.
Subject - Topic	Handicraft -- Appalachian Region, Southern Handicraft industries -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Craft	Spinning -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject - Group	Appalachian School (Penland, N.C.) Appalachian Industrial School Penland School of Handicrafts Penland Weavers and Potters Penland School of Crafts
Craft Category	textiles
Time Period	1930s
Location	Mitchell County (N.C.)
Source Institution	Penland School of Crafts
Collection	Penland School of Crafts Records - Penland publication
Inventory Number	PSC_RG3_CR046
Copyright Information	All rights reserved. For permissions and use, contact Penland School of Crafts Archives, Penland, NC 28765
Digital Publisher	Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Aunt Harriet at the Flax Wheel, Penland, N.C.

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