The report by J.S. Holmes, Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina, published in 1911, contained a two-part image that was captioned in the table of contents as 'Pulpwood and Tanning Extract Industries.' The individual captions on the plate for…
This page from the late 1920s brochure for the 'Hotel Gordon'� has a line-drawing illustration of the hotel, which was located in Waynesville, North Carolina. Automobiles are shown in the drawing parked in front of the hotel and the brochure notes…
In 1901 C.J. Harris, a prominent industrialist in Jackson County, N.C., started the Harris Tannery in Sylva, N.C. The report by J.S. Holmes entitled Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina (Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1911) noted…
This letter from J.L. Jones, Almond, N.C., to Sheriff J.E. McLain, Webster, N.C., dated February 24, 1896, concerns payment of taxes. The letterhead for this store in Almond, N.C., highlights that it deals in 'Notions, Dry Goods, Shoes, Merchandise…
The cover of the 1931 program of the 'Final Announcement, Junaluska Summer School, Incorporated (Affiliated with Duke University), Lake Junaluska, N.C.'" features an outline drawing of the Mission Inn building. Published by the Lake Junaluska…
The cover of the 1932 program of 'The Junaluskan,' published by the Lake Junaluska Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, features an aerial view of the lake. The Lake Junaluska Methodist Church Assembly offered its guests a wide…
The cover of the 1933 program of 'The Junaluskan,' published by the Lake Junaluska Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, features a view of the lake in the foreground and mountains in the distance. The 1933 program listed not only…
Hall Station, also known as Hall Siding, was located between the communities of Addie and Willets, N.C. This photographic postcard by Thomas H. Lindsey and Edward E. Brown, entitled 'Hall Station, Murphy R.R. 809,' was mentioned in Lindsey's 1890…
This portrait shot of Robert Lee Madison (1867 - 1954) was taken by the studio of Lindsey & Brown, South Court Place, Asheville, N.C. Madison, a native of Virginia, came to western North Carolina in 1886 to teach at a school in Quallatown. He later…
The photographic studio of Lindsey & Brown, in Asheville, N.C., published this postcard showing a wagon, which they captioned a 'Prairie Schooner.' On the left side of the card is a general heading for the set of 'Western North Carolina Views'…