Frances Goodrich to Olive Dame Campbell, 1933

Frances Goodrich to Olive Dame Campbell, 1933

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Artisans

Craft shops

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

John C. Campbell Folk School

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

Spinning Wheel (Firm : Asheville, N.C.)

This September 25, 1933 letter was written by Frances L. Goodrich from her summer home in New Hampshire to Olive D. Campbell at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. The letter demonstrates the collaboration and deliberation of significant issues among Craft Revival leaders in the southern Appalachians. In this letter Goodrich describes the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts and how they are developing their craft products and sales establishments, comparing them with the newly formed Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. She observes that the New Hampshire League works to build individual production centers which compete with each other, whereas the Guild promotes alliances and support among the various production centers and shops. Goodrich wonders if she was naïve not to see that rivalry in the marketplace is natural and is concerned that the Spinning Wheel, run by Clementine Douglas in Asheville, is an example of a shop that might be hurt by the proximity of the Allanstand shop, now run by the Guild, in Asheville.

Goodrich, Frances Louisa

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1933-09-25

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Appalachian Region, Southern

8.5" x 11"(dimension)

Craft Revival