Family portrait at Emma Shelton Wike’s birthday in Cullowhee

Dublin Core

Title

Family portrait at Emma Shelton Wike’s birthday in Cullowhee

Subject

Dwellings
Events
Families
Men
Portraits, Group
Wike family
Women

Description

This 1950 photograph showing a family portrait at Emma Shelton Wike’s birthday at her home on the Tuckasegee River is part of the Sara Madison Collection. Family members shown are Emma Jane Shelton Hampton Wike (1870-1954), Eva Shelton Green, Crawford Shelton, Beulah Shelton Hyatt, (missing Jesse Shelton in Los Angeles), and Mattie Shelton Whitmire. Dr. Sara Jean Sutton Montgomery Madison (1931-2017) had a lifelong association with Western Carolina University, and was married to James A. Madison (1928-2015), grandson of the university’s founder, Robert Lee Madison (1867-1954). As a child, Sara lived in Davies Hall on the campus of Western Carolina University, and later on Buzzard’s Roost overlooking campus with her parents, Eddie Marie Wike Sutton and Ralph Coleman Sutton.

Creator

Unknown

Source

Sara Madison Collection

Publisher

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

Date

1950-06

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

jpg;
photographs
portraits

Language

eng

Type

StillImage

Identifier

31939
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/31939

Date Created

2018-11-28

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Jackson County (N.C.)
Cullowhee (N.C.)

Extent

3.5" x 5.25"(dimension)

Is Part Of

Highlights from Western Carolina University

Citation

Unknown, “Family portrait at Emma Shelton Wike’s birthday in Cullowhee,” OAI, accessed May 1, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/31939.