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  • Collection: Travel Western North Carolina

The travel brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians'� (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, August 1923), featured on page 16 three images under the general heading 'Pisgah National Forest and Game…

This section of the 'North Carolina Highway's' map for 1939, issued by the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission (Raleigh, N.C.), features western North Carolina. The map shows Cheoah Lake at Tapoco, N.C., Lake Santeetlah near…

This page of four pictures from a report by the United States Census Office, 'Extra Census Bulletin. Indians. Eastern Band of Cherokees of North Carolina' (Washington, D.C.: United States Census Printing Office, 1892), shows 'Ocona Lufta Valley'…

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…

A typed caption on this photograph identifies it as 'On Balsam Divide looking towards Black Rock Knob.' The photograph is featured in a report titled 'Properties of Dr. John R. Brinkley,' which contains a letter of transmittal from Ellis Clarke…

This photograph by R.A. Romanes (1896-1978) has a handwritten caption that reads '10 -18 - 1936 on Franklin - Sylva Rd N.C. Ascent to Jackson Gap.'� The numbers in the caption are the date, October 18, 1936. The rest of the caption refers to the…

Pack Square, in Asheville, N.C., was a focal point of the city. This scene focused on the obelisk-shaped Vance Monument, which had been dedicated in 1897, and the water fountain in the foreground. This card was postmarked August 10, 1909, from…

This picture from the book 'Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to the Forests, Rivers and Mountains of the Southern Appalachian Region,' issued by the United States…

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…

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.,…
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