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 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…
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 picture of William Holland Thomas (1805 - 1893) is from James Mooney's 'Myths of the Cherokee' (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902). Thomas was a merchant and politician in western North Carolina as well as the agent, attorney, and…
This page containing two pictures identified as 'Patton Avenue, Asheville, N.C. - Mountain Park Hotel, Hot Springs, N.C.' is from Holman D. Waldron's souvenir book 'With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' (Portland, Me.: Chisholm Bros.,…
This advertisement for the Turnpike Hotel from Thomas H. Lindsey's book 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890), proclaimed it to be 'A Delightful Home in the Heart of the…
This drawing of the 'Swannanoa Hotel, Asheville, N.C.' was featured in the book by Thomas H. Lindsey, 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890).
This illustration from Thomas H. Lindsey's 'Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina' (Asheville, N.C.: The Randolph - Kerr Printing Co., 1890) shows 'South Main Street, Looking North' in Asheville, N.C.
This collage of pictures from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture's 1896 book 'North Carolina and Its Resources' featured George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate and the town of Biltmore. The caption for the page reads, 'The Vanderbilt…
The 'Cherokee Herald' (Murphy, N.C.) newspaper in its June 17, 1874, issue ran an advertisement that asserted, 'It has been ascertained that one and half bushels of corn ground at the Tomotla Mills will last a family seven days, whereas the same…