- Descriptive Summary
- Administrative Information
- Historical Note
- Content and Scope
- Online Catalog Headings
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Descriptive Summary
| Repository: | Western Carolina University Hunter Library Special Collections |
| Creator: | unknown |
| Title: | Asheville, N.C. Photograph Album, 1914 - 1925 |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Hunter Library Special Collections. |
| Abstract: | This photograph album contains three hundred and sixty-three (363) photographs from the vicinities of Asheville and Buncombe County in North Carolina, dating between 1914 and 1925. |
| Extent: | .25 linear feet |
Administrative Information
Collection is open for research during Hunter Library's Special Collections business hours, or by appointment.
Copyright for materials resides with the creators of the items in question, unless otherwise designated.
[Identification of item], Asheville, N.C. Photograph Album, Special Collections, Western Carolina University Hunter Library, Cullowhee, NC, USA.
Purchase from Another World Collectibles, Dillsboro, N.C. on 2003 March 21.
Processed by George Frizzell, 2003 March
Encoded by Anna R. Craft, 2008 August
Historical Note
The range of dates reflected in this photograph album covers the period of the United States' involvement in World War I (1917 - 1918), the establishment of the Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital, and a period before and after World War I of growth and prosperity for the Asheville, North Carolina, vicinity. Developments in transportation are reflected in the number of automobiles visible in the pictures, although horse-drawn carriages are also present.Content and Scope
This photograph album contains three hundred and sixty-three (363) photographs from the vicinities of Asheville and Buncombe County in North Carolina. Photographs with dates indicated range from 1914 to 1925. Most pictures are 2½ inches x 3 ½ inches in size. Among the featured or identified pictures are: baptisms; Bethel Church; Camp Meeting (1923); Cane Creek; Chimney Rock; family outings and picnics; Fletcher School (1921); French Broad River; group and individual pictures, which form the majority of the images in the album; Holsclaw Cabin; homes; Mt. Carmel High School class (1914); New Bridge, Swannanoa; Oteen (1920); Patties Chapel, Fletcher, N.C.; pig lot and chicken pen; railroad at Round Knob and Andrews Geyser; Slick Rock; soldiers in uniform; and the "Swannanoa M.E. Church S".
The collection is in single-folder arrangement.
Online Catalog Headings
Asheville (N.C.)--History--Photographs.
Baptism--Photographs.
Buncombe County (N.C.)--History--Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Round Knob (N.C.)--History--Photographs.
Swannanoa (N.C.)--History--Photographs.