Allanstand cabin, woman and boy with dye pot

Allanstand cabin, woman and boy with dye pot

Allanstand Cottage Industries

Appalachians (People)

Dyes and dyeing

Handicraft

This photograph depicts an unidentified woman and a small boy working the dye pot outside the cabin craft shop used by Allanstand Cottage Industries in Madison County, North Carolina during the 1910s and 1920s. The shop was constructed from the logs of the original Allan's Old Stand, a two-story cabin used as a stopover for drovers on the road from Tennessee. This series of photographs are contact prints made from the original negatives. The original photographer and dates are unknown.

Unknown

Frances L. Goodrich Collection

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

1920/1929

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StillImage

12989

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2006-12-07

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Madison County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

2.5" x 4.25"(dimension)

Craft Revival