First car on Currahee Mountain, John Carey in front

First car on Currahee Mountain, John Carey in front

Automobiles

Men

Portraits, Group

Transportation

Reinfried Armstrong Romanes (April 4, 1896-1978), more often known as R. A. Romanes or simply as Romanes, was born and raised in Europe. In 1919, he emigrated to America and, through family and political connections, settled in Alto, Georgia, where he remained for the rest of his life. It wasn’t until 1925 that Romanes became interested in photography, but after that time, photography became his passion. He made pictures of farming families in and around his adopted hometown in northeast Georgia and took landscape shots in Georgia, South Carolina, and western North Carolina. Most of the photographs in this collection were made in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and many are labeled as to where they were taken.

Romanes, R. A. (Reinfried Armstrong), 1896-1978

R.A. Romanes Collection

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

1936-06

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photographs

portraits

StillImage

38015

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2018-05-17

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Shore, William

Stephens County (Ga.)

8" x 10"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia