Across Asheville toward Mt. Mitchell

Across Asheville toward Mt. Mitchell

Black Mountains (N.C.)

Landscapes

Mountains

Pisgah National Forest (N.C.)

This view from West Asheville looking east across Asheville, North Carolina toward Mount Mitchell shows the Pisgah National Forest, the Black Mountains, and some buildings in the foreground. On the reverse is written “136-4. Across Asheville toward Mt. Mitchell looking east, from West Asheville, N.C. 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

65094

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65094

Asheville (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia