Crossnore School clothing sale

Crossnore School clothing sale

Crossnore School

Education

Dead trees

This photograph, taken by Bayard Wootten in the late 1920s or early 1930s, depicts Mary Sloop (right of tree) managing a used clothing sale to raise money for Crossnore School programs. Dr. Mary Martin Sloop, a medical doctor, moved to Avery County, North Carolina in 1911. Within a few years, Sloop was working with the Crossnore community to upgrade a little one-room schoolhouse to expand local educational opportunities. Crossnore School was incorporated in 1917 and continues today. In 1920 the school established a weaving program, operated with funds from the Smith-Hughes Act, federal legislation enacted to support vocational education.

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959

North Carolina Collection

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

1927/1934

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15876

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2008-06-06

Reproduced with permission from the North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Avery County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

5" x 7"(dimension)

Craft Revival