Handmade Gifts of Unusual Beauty

Handmade Gifts of Unusual Beauty

Art metal-work

Arts and crafts movement

Basketwork

Brooms and brushes

Chairs

Dolls

Furniture -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Hand weaving

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

Household linens

Jewelry

Pewtercraft

Pottery

Southern Highlanders, Inc.

Toys -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

This catalog features craft items available through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the 1940s. Many craft artists from western North Carolina sold products through the Southern Highlanders, Inc. during the late 1930s through the early 1950s. Note that the back cover of this catalog lists the organization's producers, many from North Carolina. The Southern Highlanders, Inc. was a craft marketing cooperative initiated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) through its work with people who were displaced by their development projects. The Southern Highlanders, Inc. operated shops in Norris, Tennessee and Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Southern Highlanders, Inc.

Records of the Southern Highlanders, Inc.

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

1936/1949

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publications (documents)

eng

Text

14034

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2007-02-21

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Appalachian Region, Southern

9" x 6"(dimension)

Craft Revival