French Broad at Marshall

French Broad at Marshall

Dwellings

Landscapes

Mountain meadows

Mountains

This pastoral landscape with homes in the foreground and mountains in the background has written on the reverse is “141-6. French Broad at Marshall, N.C. Looking S. 80 degrees W where the plain drops off into the French Broad Valley as it enters the mountains. 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

eng

StillImage

65108

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65108

Madison County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia