This photograph of Marguerite Butler was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Butler assisted Olive Dame Campbell in founding the Folk School and served as the school's assistant director and treasurer. Butler…
This photograph of Georg Bidstrup holding a carving blank was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Bidstrup came to the school in 1926 and was initially employed as the farm manager and instructor for folk…
This photograph of two hands carving small animals was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933. The hands on the right belong to Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. The hands on the left belong to John Jacob…
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 photograph illustrates woodcarvings made by the woodcarvers' cooperative which was one of the first economic development projects for the John C. Campbell Folk School. This group later became known as the Brasstown Carvers. The photograph was…
This photograph of Hayden Hensley with several carving blanks was taken by Doris Ulmann when she came to Brasstown, N.C. in 1933 or1934. Hensley was one of the first woodcarvers trained at the John C. Campbell Folk School, participating in the…
This photograph of Oscar Cantrell repairing a seed spreader was taken by Doris Ulmann at the John C. Campbell Folk School, in 1933 or 1934. Cantrell was one of the first students at the Folk School, became the resident blacksmith about 1928-1929 and…
This photograph of Sam Carringer with two grandchildren, Jack and Roberta, was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. The Carringer family was one of several families in the Brasstown, N.C. area who donated time and labor to help the John C.…
This photograph of Tom Barnett with his fiddle was taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934. Barnett lived in Peachtree, N.C. and contributed many of the songs that appear in Olive Dame Campbell's ballad collection. Among others he contributed the song…