Children with woman and spinning wheel

Children with woman and spinning wheel

Children

Portraits, Group

Spinning-wheel

Women

Textile machinery

Gideon Thomas Laney (1889-1976), also known as Gid, was the prominent photographer for the Brasstown and Sweetwater areas of Clay County, North Carolina in the first part of the 20th century. Trained as a portrait photographer and motivated by the need for flexible work after the death of his wife Martha Creech Ison in 1929 left him a single parent, Gideon borrowed his sister’s bellows camera and began to photograph the people and events of his community. He sent his film off to be developed by Weaver Studio in Copperhill, Tennessee and later by Crisp’s Studio in Murphy, North Carolina. From the negatives, he made 6 cent postcard prints using his in-home darkroom. This undated photograph is likely the Canup family from the Fires Creek Community.

Laney, Gideon Thomas, 1889-1976

Gideon Laney Collection

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

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2018-08-28

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Clay County (N.C.)

5.5" x 3.5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia