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REDUCED SUMMER HOURS

Special Collections' Reading Room will be open Monday-Thursday from 9am-2pm from June 3 through July 31, 2013.

For the rest of the summer session, Special Collections will be open by appointment only. To schedule an appointment or for other requests, contact Leah Dunn dunn@unca.edu or Jessica Furst jfurst1@unca.edu.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

FEATURED COLLECTIONS

National Forests in North Carolina Historic Photographs

Images related to the development of forestry and the National Forests in North Carolina. Includes images from "The Cradle of Forestry" and from the early Biltmore Forest School.

Western NC Travel and Tourism
Books, Booklets, Reports, Brochures, Postcards and Postcard Folios about western NC
          

UNCA YEARBOOKS
    (1939 - 1985)
Produced through DigitalNC, Chapel Hill.

GOOD NEWS!

Black Mountain College Records
Moved from NC State Archives
to Western Regional Archives,  Oteen, NC
Visit their blog for more information and a complete list of collections at the facility.

NCDCR Western Archive Opening Ceremony

At UNCA:   BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
     MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER
       Documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and 
       publications from western NC's famous educational
       experiment, Black Mountain College.

OF INTEREST

UNCA ON ASHEVILLE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION

BLOWERS GALLERY EXHIBITS

BROWN BAG BOOK TALKS

Informative talks by UNCA faculty, students, and community.  See schedule.

Douglas Ellington, Design for City Building, Asheville, NC,
Lyda Collection (lyda283), D. H. Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville

E.M. Ball Collection of Photographs
 ASHEVILLE AND ENVIRONS
Over 6,000 photographs of Asheville and western NC

  WRITERS & MOUNTAINS    
Web exhibit of WNC - literature,
 geography, history
 

NOT SO BACK OF BEYOND

URBAN ECHOES ON THE
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY
WEB EXHIBIT

 ASHEVILLE'S BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Drawings, photographs, documents, maps and architectural
plans in and near Asheville, NC. Contributions from Pack Library,Asheville Art Museum, Asheville Historic Resources 
Commission, and UNCA. Heritage of Western North Carolina is a Collaborative LSTA - NC ECHO digitization grant project

Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
    URBAN RENEWAL records
A comprehensive record of the many urban renewal projects that re-shaped Asheville from the 1950's to the present. Over 150  linear feet of materials including maps, documents and photographs.

 JEWISH LIFE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Records from Temple Beth HaTephila and Congregation Beth Israel ; Biographies of leading Jewish citizens ; History of early Jewish settlement in western North Carolina...more...

NEW ACQUISITIONS

Wilma Dykeman Collection
Includes a large scrapbook with mementoes of the writer's first 30 years of life, gathered by her older brother, Jerome. [in process]

Walter Julius Damtoft Collection
A rich body of photographs, correspondence, writing, and publications of the first industrial forester in the U.S.. Includes early Yale Forest School material and forestry at Champion Fibre Co..

100 YEARS
1913 -2013
GROVE PARK INN PHOTOGRAPHS
GROVE PARK INN LETTERS
GROVE PARK INN PLANS

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