This rendering from an elevated perspective of the Margo Terrace, a hotel located in Asheville, N.C., provides a juxtaposition of various modes of transportation available in the city, with an automobile seen in conjunction with a horse and carriage…
This topographic map titled 'Mount Mitchell Quadrangle,' issued in 1902 and reprinted in 1920 by the U.S. Geological Survey (Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior), shows the area around Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina. Other features near Mt.…
In this photograph dated 1903, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Luck, Sr., of Jackson County, N.C., are seen in a carriage. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Luck, Sr., was the business manager of the 'Tuckaseige Democrat' (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper. In 1890 he was…
This illustration from Wilbur G. Zeigler and Ben S. Grosscup's late 19th century travel narrative, 'Heart of the Alleghanies'� (p. 375), is captioned, 'Mt. Pisgah (5,763 feet above sea). View from Swannanoa Hotel' (p. 375). The Swannanoa Hotel was…
This illustration captioned 'Mt. Pisgah from Battery Park' is from Harriet Adams Sawyer book 'Souvenir of Asheville or the Skyland' (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1892).
This collage of pictures from the book 'North Carolina and Its Resources,' issued by the North Carolina, Department of Agriculture (Winston: M.I. and J.C. Stewart, 1896), features images entitled 'The Nantahala Mountains - Southern Railway.'
This scene, entitled 'The Nantahala River and Gap,' appeared in the 1904 edition of Holman D. Waldron's With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky.' According to Waldron, the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway passed through the Nantahala…
This picture entitled 'The Nantahala Valley, North Carolina' from the 1904 edition of Holman D. Waldron's With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' exemplifies the steepness of the mountains which helped inspire the name 'Middle Sun,' or more…
This tri-fold brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians: What They Mean to the East and South' was issued by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (Washington, D.C., August 1923). The left…
The travel brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians'� (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, August 1923) featured three pictures on page 17 with the captions 'East Entrance, Pisgah National Forest…