Plain of the French Broad and Reems Creek

Plain of the French Broad and Reems Creek

Crops

Landscapes

Mountains

This image shows crops, fields, and woods in the foreground with mountains in the background. Written on the reverse is “141-5. Plain of the French Broad and Reems Creek looking N. W. (Asheville Quadrangle). M. E. Norburn, W. C. Morse. July 16, 1931.” 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

1931-07-16

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photographs

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StillImage

65105

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia