This undated postcard features a colorized photograph of a Cherokee woman making a basket at the Cherokee Indian Fair. The back of the postcard reads, "Mrs. Nina Standing Deer was a feature of the Cherokee Indian Fair as she wove her baskets…
Drawn by John C. Campbell, this very large map serves as one of the first definitive maps of Appalachia, a region Campbell referred to as the “Southern Highlands.” In 1908 and 1909, John and Olive Campbell traveled throughout the region to conduct a…
This six-page promotional brochure about the John C. Campbell Folk School was designed to attract students as well as assist with fund raising. It was written by the school's founder, Olive Dame Campbell circa 1945. This brochure was distributed…
This 4-page pamphlet was written by Olive Dame Campbell after she and Marguerite Butler traveled to Denmark and several Scandinavian locales to study the systems of education in rural areas in the early 1920s. It was used to introduce the…
This memorial to Frances L. Goodrich was written by Olive Dame Campbell shortly after Goodrich's death in 1944. The memorial appears to have been read by Campbell, most likely at the memorial service sponsored by the Southern Highland Handicraft…
In this February 25, 1931 letter, John C. Campbell Folk School director, Olive D. Campbell, wrote to Frances Goodrich about Goodrich's offer to transfer ownership of the Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. to the recently formed Southern Mountain…
This talk was given by Olive Dame Campbell at the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers meeting in the spring of 1929. Here Campbell describes how representatives of seven mountain craft centers met at Penland, North Carolina in December 1928 to…
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on…
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on the…
John C. Campbell Folk School published a series of newsletters from 1926 to 1950. Written like a letter from the school's director, the newsletter is a source of information about the classes and activities at the Folk School and their impact on the…