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 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 portrait photograph of F.A. Luck, Jr., was dated 1900. Luck was the publisher and later also editor, along with his Father, F.A. Luck, Sr., of the 'Tuckaseige Democrat' (Sylva, N.C.) newspaper in the late 1880s and early 1890s.
This page from the hotel register of the Penland House at Pigeon River, now Canton, N.C., was dated June 12 and 13, 1883. According to the names on the register, the hotel drew a clientele from a variety of areas. Included are individuals who…
This postcard view of 'Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, N.C,' was postmarked July 27, 1909, from Asheville. The hotel was built in 1886 and demolished in 1924.
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'…
This postcard view entitled 'Beauties of the Swannanoa' was published by T.H. Lindsey of Asheville, N.C., and shows the Swannanoa River on its course through Buncombe County, N.C., to meet with the French Broad River at Asheville, N.C. On the left…
This view captioned 'Old Mill near Waynesville, N.C., from the booklet Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892,' was featured in the 1904 souvenir book 'With Pen and Camera thro' `The Land…
The booklet titled 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892' carried this picture of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel. The earliest part of the building had been a home constructed…
In this panoramic view of Waynesville, N.C., from the booklet 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892,' the mountain setting of the town of Waynesville is readily apparent. The Haywood…