Martha Elizabeth Norburn

Martha Elizabeth Norburn

Geologists

Women

This portrait of Martha Norburn with a pickax beside her has written on the reverse “143-2. Martha Elizabeth Norburn. Linville Falls N.C. M. 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

07-1931

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photographs

portraits

eng

StillImage

65110

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Burke County (N.C.)

5.75" x 3.5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia