Crossnore School clothing sale

Crossnore School clothing sale

Crossnore School

Education

This photograph, taken by Bayard Wootten in the late 1920s or early 1930s, depicts Mary Sloop (far right) 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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15877

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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