This page containing two pictures identified as 'The Public Square at Asheville. - Country Home in the Blue Ridge' is from Holman D. Waldron's souvenir book 'With Pen and Camera thro' the 'Land of the Sky' (Portland, Me.: Chisholm Bros., 1904).
Tanning Industry was the overall caption for this three-part picture from J.S. Holmes' Forest Conditions in Western North Carolina, published in 1911. The separate pictures were subtitled (A) 'Tannery of Cover & Sons, Andrews,' (B) 'Unloading bark…
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 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 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 photograph has a handwritten caption that states, 'This is the the [sic] Passenger Train from Proctor to Ritter with Charley Wilson, Engineer, G.J. Calhoun, Conductor.' Granville Calhoun, seen at the rear of the train in this photograph, was…
Proctor, N.C., located along Hazel Creek in Swain County, N.C., was a center of logging activity for the W.M. Ritter Lumber Company from 1909 to 1926. The community had a population of about 500 in the mid-1910s. As rail connections were vital in…
This picture of the Whittier, N.C., railway depot possibly dates from 1909. When enlarged, the 'Train Schedule' sign, seen at the far right of the building, appears to have a handwritten date of July 16, 1909. The 'Whittier' sign over the doorway…
This photograph of Weaver McLean has a handwritten caption on the front that remarked McLean was 'depot agent' for the rail station at Whittier, N.C., located along the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway. The 1910 census for Whittier community in…
This postcard, captioned 'Looking East, Dillsboro, N.C.,' was taken from a hill overlooking the center of the town. By the time this postcard was mailed, with a July 20, 1908, postmark on the reverse, the town of Dillsboro had emerged as a vital…