This 1929 letter to Mrs. William Dudley Foulke is an example of the letters which Frances Goodrich sent out to Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. stockholders as she made arrangements to pass the shop on to new owners. Over the course of 1929 and…
This photograph depicts an appliqué quilt identified as the "Honey Bee" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. This photograph may have been used as an example of a quilt design available…
This photograph depicts an appliqué quilt identified as the "Poppy" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. This photograph may have been used as an example of a quilt design available through…
This photograph depicts a patchwork quilt identified on the verso side of the photograph as the "Bird Cage" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Product brochures indicate that customers…
This photograph depicts a patchwork quilt identified on the verso of the photograph as the "Flying Swallows" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Product brochures indicate that customers…
This photograph depicts a patchwork quilt identified as the " Indiana Puzzle" design. The quilt may have been sold through Allanstand Cottage Industries in the early 1900s. Product brochures indicate that customers could order a custom made double…
These eight pages were written by Frances Goodrich to tell the story of Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. She begins with her longing to help mountain women, the gift of the double bow knot coverlet, her first experiences with a loom. She…
This letter to Marguerite Butler, administrator at the John C. Campbell Folk School, was written by Frances Goodrich on October 18, 1930. It was written on Allanstand Cottage Industries letterhead as Goodrich was owner of the craft shop at this…
This 1931 letter to stockholders in the Allanstand Cottage Industries, Inc. is an example of the letters which Frances Goodrich sent out as Goodrich made arrangements to pass the shop on to new owners. Between 1929-1931, Goodrich offered to purchase…
This April 1931 letter from Frances Goodrich to Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild secretary, Helen Dingman, is a response to Dingman's missives about the Guild accepting Goodrich's offer to take over the Allanstand Cottage Industries business. …