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  • Collection: Craft Revival

This photograph of Carrie Belle Brendle Clayton and Dimples Clayton was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. The Clayton family was one of several who gave gifts of time and labor to help the John C. Campbell Folk School get started. Carrie…

This photograph of Quentin Clayton carving a duck was taken by Doris Ulmann in the Brasstown, N.C. area, in the summer of 1933. Eleanor Roosevelt purchased one of Clayton's carvings at the Mountain Handicrafts exhibit sponsored by the Southern…

This photograph of Bonnie Logan Hensley holding her son John was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. Bonnie Hensley and her husband Hayden Hensley were some of the first woodcarvers at the John C. Campbell Folk School participating in the…

This photograph of Bill Clayton of the Brasstown community was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. The Clayton family was one of several who gave gifts of time and labor to help the John C. Campbell Folk School get started. Bill Clayton was…

This photograph of Sara Jane Johnson was taken by Doris Ulmann in the Brasstown, N.C. area, in 1933 or 1934. Johnson was the wife of Marion Johnson and mother of Gyp Johnson, who was an early woodcarver for the John C. Campbell Folk School. The…

This photograph shows Laura Green Cantrell (left) and Arminda Anderson Curtis (right) on the porch working a hand cotton jenny. The photograph was taken by Doris Ulmann when she came to Brasstown, N.C. in the summer of 1933. Laura Green Cantrell…

This photograph of three members of the Little Brasstown Baptist Church Sunday School was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. This congregation adjoins the Folk School and often shared participation in programs and activities. Pictured left to…

This photograph shows woodcarvers working together and getting instruction on the campus of John C. Campbell Folk School during the 1940s. The woodcarving cooperative, later known as the Brasstown Carvers, was one of the school's first economic…

This photograph of Lucius Leander Scroggs, also known as L.L. Scroggs, was taken by Doris Ulmann in the summer of 1933. Scroggs was a member of the Brasstown community who was significant in supporting the creation of the John C. Campbell Folk…

This photograph of Lillie Alloway Strange Scroggs, also known as "Granny" Scroggs, was taken by Doris Ulmann when she came to Brasstown, N.C. in the summer of 1933. Scroggs was a member of the Brasstown community who was significant in supporting…
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