Looking up the French Broad Valley

Looking up the French Broad Valley

French Broad River Valley (N.C. and Tenn.)

Landscapes

Mountains

Two people stand looking up the French Broad Valley from West Asheville, North Carolina. On the reverse is written “136-1. Looking up the French Broad Valley from West Asheville, N. C. looking south. June 8, 1931. Martha E. Norburn, W. C. Morse.” The photographers attributed to this series of images are W. C. Morse, visiting professor of Geology, and Martha E. Norburn, graduate student in Geology, both at the University of North Carolina. Norburn wrote her doctoral dissertation “The Influence of the Physiographic Features of Western North Carolina on the Settlement and Development of the Region” in 1932 under the direction of Collier Cobb. Ten years later she wrote “Asheville: In Land of the Sky” under her married name Martha Elizabeth Norburn Mead.

Mead, Martha Norburn

Norburn - Robertson - Thomson Families Collection

1931-06-08

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photographs

eng

StillImage

65092

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65092

Asheville (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia