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"Swannanoa Hotel", Plate from Wilbur Zeigler and Ben Grosscup. The Heart of the Alleghenies: or, Western North Carolina, comprising its topography, history, resources, people, narratives, incidents, and pictures of travel, adventures in hunting and fishing and legends of its wildernesses. Raleigh, N.C.: Williams & Co. ; Cleveland, OH, W.W. Williams, 1883. 

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Books Related to Western North Carolina

1902-2005


Asheville City Directories  [ Miller's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) City Directory] List of directories available in Special Collections and on microfilm. Full text unavailable online.

Special Collections  
F264.A8 H5x 

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Nolen, John.  Asheville City Plan, 1922 (Full Text)
Published in 1925 " ...for the people of Asheville," N.C., Nolen provides a detailed outline of the city and a plan for its re-design.

Special Collections  NA9127.A8 N6 1925 

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"Improving The Quality of Urban Life"
The Asheville Model Cities Program
Asheville, NC
  (Full Text)

Special Collections   HT 177. A85 1974                              

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Gray, Idyl Dial, ed.. Azure Lure: A Romance of the Mountains(1924). (Partial Text)
"Here in the 'Land of the Sky' romance, adventure, and love fan into flames the day dreams of home, honor, and happiness, in Earth's Paradise, by Indian folklore termed the 'Garden of Eden' ...."

Special Collections  F261 .G77 1926 

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Lanman, Charles. Letters From the Alleghany Mountains (1849).(Full Text)
A well-known travel account of early western North Carolina that includes first-hand accounts of the life of the Cherokee, mineral wealth, and details of specific geography.

Special Collections  F 210 lL29 1849


Warner, Charles Dudley. On Horseback. (Partial Text) (1888)
An account of a journey by horseback through western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee authored by Charles Dudley Warner, a friend and mentor of Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain]. One of the earliest and best observations of life in the region near the end of the nineteenth century.

Special Collections  F215 .W27 1889   


Zeigler, Wilbur and Ben Grosscup. The Heart of the Alleghenies: (1883) (Full Text) or, Western North Carolina, comprising its topography, history, resources, people, narratives, incidents, and pictures of travel, adventures in hunting and fishing and legends of its wildernesses. Raleigh, N.C.: Williams & Co. ; Cleveland, OH, W.W. Williams. A travel journal by Wilbur Zeigler and Ben Grosscup, friends who journeyed from Abingdon, Virginia to the western North Carolina highlands and recounted their adventures and the sights along the way. 

Special Collections  F259 .Z46 1883

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Lindsey, Thomas H.. Lindsey's Guide Book to Western North Carolina (1890) (Full Text) Small 98 page book that describes travel in western North Carolina at the end of the 1880's. It might be described as a booklet, as the size of the item is only 16 cm. in height. The small work intended to be carried by travelers,  includes photographs, drawings, and descriptions of the most visited locations in the western region of North Carolina. It represents one of the earliest comprehensive travel guides for the region and is often referred to by travelers during the year surrounding the turn of the century.

Special Collections  F259 .L75 

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Baily, Waldron. Heart of the Blue Ridge (1915) Illustrated with Scenes from the Photo-play, with Clara Kimball Young as the Heroine, Under the Direction of Lewis J. Selznick,  New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1915. A predictable and rather cloying romance and action thriller set in Wilkes County, NC. Plutina and Zeke endure a series of misadventures that cover the gamut of Appalachian stereotypes - moonshiners, convicts, guns and dawgs, and a predictable ending. The appealing "damsel in distress" theme led to its conversion to film by Lewis Selznick in 1915.

Special Collections  PS3503 .A535 H4 1916 c. 2


The Galax Gatherers. (1910) :The Gospel among the highlanders, by Edward O. Guerrant, edited by his daughter, Grace. Richmond, VA: Onward Press, [1910].

Special Collections  F217.A65 .G84 1910 

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Wilson, Samuel Tyndale. The Southern Mountaineers. (1914) [1906]  New York: Literature Department, Presbyterian Home Missions.

Special Collections F217.A65 W762 1906   


Spalding, Arthur W. . Hills O'Ca'liny (1921) . The collision of "insiders" with "outsiders." "Here in this city [Asheville], indeed, meet the farthest extremes of the ecclesiastical domain. And here is the most concentrated cosmopolitanism on the earth, if classes rather than nationalities be regarded. The nabobs of society from New York to Charleston and New Orleans, touch elbows on the sidewalks with lank-haired, check-shirted mountaineers ..."

Special Collections  F259 .S7 1921 

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Buckner, Eloise. Carolina Mountain Breezes (1929) Ebbs, Asheville, NC: Miller Press.  Intended to “give the mountaineer’s viewpoint,”  Ebbs believed those born in western North Carolina had been poorly represented by “outsiders” and she wished to place before the reader the “true and honest people” of the mountains.  Given her strong sense of place and her fervid defense of the local, it is curious that in her preface to the novel she gives inspirational credit to "outsider" Margaret Morley, among others. She says “…I found it very hard to separate my own thoughts from those of others, as all had become rather a part of me,”

Special Collections
 PZ3.E2 C3x   

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Morley, Margaret W. . The Carolina Mountains (1913)  Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company. One of the most compelling portraits of western North Carolina written during a period of rapid growth and environmental degradation. Morley captures all we want to retain in this remarkable region and helps us to believe it is possible to work toward that end.

Special Collections F259 .M86 1913


Pool, Maria Louise. In Buncombe County (1896)  Chicago: Herbert S Stone & Company. Written as a travelogue during summer months spent in western North Carolina, the close observations of the region are not always kind, but reveal the cultural tensions often expressed in travel literature about the region.

  Special Collections  PS2649.P4 I6 1896 

 

Pratt, Joseph Hyde and Joseph Volney Lewis,Corundum and the Peridotites of Western North Carolina (1905).  Raleigh, N.C.. North Carolina Geological Survey, Vol. IA report of the geology, petrology, and mineralogy of the corundum and peridotite deposits in the western part of North Carolina, known at that time. The report contains  information on associated minerals and numerous photographs, maps and tables related to the geology of the region. [464 p. illus., plates, maps (part fold.) 27 cm]

Special Collections  QE147 .A2 1905  v.1   


Carter, Mary Nelson. North Carolina Sketches: Phases of Life Where the Galax Grows (1900), Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. A quasi-sympathetic account of life in the rural counties of western North Carolina. The author relies heavily on vernacular language and local lore to create a rich pastiche of observations. With the Rev. William Savage (Episcopal), Carter founded the "Lend-A-Hand-Library at her home on Main Street in Blowing Rock which eventually led to one of the first women's clubs in Blowing Rock who continued the library work of Carter. 

Special Collections  PS3505.A7847 N6 1900   

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O. HenryLet Me Feel Your Pulse (1910), New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Illustrations by W.W. Fawcett.  First printed in The Cosmopolitan, 49.2, July 1910, p. 217-52, this small book was written at the end of O. Henry's life when he briefly lived in Weaverville, North Carolina and was married to his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Lindsay Coleman. In this black, but humorous work he tries to come to terms with his chronic alcoholism and the shadows of his physician father.

Special Collections  PZ3 .P835 Le 


Vance, Zebulon Baird: Late United States Senator from North Carolina, The Scattered Nation (1916)  New York: Marcus Schnitzer. Introduction by Schnitzer of the popular speech by Vance that advocates a tolerant view of Jewish populations. The laudatory introduction attempts to describe the sources of Vance's advocacy for fair treatment of Jewish people.

Special Collections  DS119 .V2   


Other Notable Book Holdings
Kelly Lynn Harrison Collection -- A large collection of early American history imprints, including imprints from the American Revolutionary War era. Also included are monographs related to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-1746. Selections are here represented:
heretable_1.jpg (266828 bytes) An Act for Taking Away and Abolishing the Heretable Jurisdictions in that Part of Great Britain Called Scotland.and for Making Satisfaction to the Proprietors
Thereof; and for Restoring Such Jurisdictions to the Crown, &c. (ca. 1746 )
 

inhabitant_cover2.jpg (432366 bytes) The Address of the People of Great-Britain to the Inhabitants of America. (1775)

... We have seen the three addresses of your Congress, the first of which is directed to us, the next to you, and the last to his Majesty.  And we wish we could add that we had not seen their Address to the French Inhabitants of Quebec; because it flatters them, provided they adopt the projects of the Congress, with the protection of a religion, which the Congress in their Address to us, say, is fraught with "Impiety, Bigotry, Persecution, Murder, and Rebellion," ... 


juries_1.jpg (372088 bytes) An Enquiry into the Extent of the Power of Juries, Trials of Indictments of Informations, For Publishing Seditious, or Other Criminal Writings, of Libels (1792)

 

washington_cover.jpg (220499 bytes) Remarks Occasioned by the Late Conduct of Mr. Washington, as President of the United States (1797)
"...IT is not easy to excuse to the wise and good, the delay which has occurred in publishing observations like the present.  At an earlier season, the measure might have been censured by a certain party, as tending to excite the resentment of France; but this party, which has not feared to give the sole cause for this resentment, will always object to what opposes them.  The American nation (for we fondly call it such, while Mr. Washington yet permits us to believe in the existence of the present federal Union;) would have judged more justly...."

Special Collections    E311 .R38 1797 


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public lands_cover.jpg (191411 bytes) Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred the Bill from the Senate, Entitled "An Act Providing for the Indemnification of Certain Claimants of Public Lands in the Mississippi Territory." (1814)

Report of the Committee to whom was referred the bill from the Senate  ....Report of the Committee to whom was referred the bill from the Senate entitled "an act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory." March 15, 1814, Read and committed to a committee of the whole house on Thursday next
Blake, George, 1769-1841. Washington : A. and G. Way, 1814    29 p. ; 21 cm

UNCA Special Collections HD243 .B533 1814 


  In Senate of the United States. April 16, 1816. The Committee on the memorial of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory ...Senate of the United States. April 16, 1816. The Committee on the memorial of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, to whom was referred the bill from the House of Representatives, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Mississippi Territory to form a Constitution and State government, and for the admissions of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," .
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the memorial of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory
[Washington, 1816]    2 p. 20 cm

Special Collections   F341 .I5 1816


sec of treas_cover.jpg (240508 bytes) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Statements of the Sales of Public Lands During the Year 1817, and the Three First Quarters of the Year 1818. (1818)

Special Collections
  HD216 .U58 x, 1818 
settlers_1.jpg (223179 bytes) Report Relative to Actual Settlers, Read in the Senate, March 21, 1822. (1822)

" ... Whereas, the Legislature of Pennsylvania never intended that the settler who continued in undisturbed possession of an improvement for twenty-one years, should be evicted from that possession, but that he should by virtue of such improvement or possession, enjoy a clear and secure title to the land he thus held provided that it did not exceed four hundred acres....}
 

st helena_1.jpg (198002 bytes) Land Claims in St. Helena District. [Nassau] Letter from the Secretary, Transmitting A Report of the Register and Receiver of the District of St. Helena, on Land Claims in that  District..(1826)

 

pryor_1.jpg (361001 bytes) Rep. No,. 284.  Green Pryor  [24th Congress, 1st Session] (1836)

Compilation of Congressional reports and letters from involved parties concerning a tract of land in Mississippi that had been surveyed, sold, and resurveyed, causing the boundary lines to shift and the owners, Green and (the late) Peter Pryor, to petition Congress for the full 440 acres they had paid for.
 

senate1837_1.jpg (323861 bytes) United States Senate Report, December 26, 1837.  To Accompany Senate b. 11 No. 93. (1837)

Report to the Senate on the deeds of the New England Mississippi Land Company.
 

house_1.jpg (327072 bytes) Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Communication from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Accompanying Papers, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 31st of July, 1848, on the Subject of a Tract of Land on the North Side of the Road between Prairie du Rocher and Kaskaskia, in the State of Illinois. (c. 1848)
sec of war_1.jpg (279119 bytes) Report of the Secretary of War, with Lieutenant Colonel Long's plan and estimate for the repair of the Cumberland dam. (1850)

Special Collections
  HE394.C8 U85 1850
supreme court_cover.jpg (238974 bytes) Opinion of the Supreme Court in the Case of Cromwell, Plaintiff in Errour against Lee of Simon Gratz, Def. in Errour. (c. 1800's)

 


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 Special Collections  F1659.N3 C59 1870 


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Howard H. Peckham  Collection of World War I autobiographies and first-hand accounts of the Great War. The Peckham Collection comprises one of the most comprehensive first edition collections of this genre in the U.S.


 

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Seitoku Kinen Kaigakan hekigashu, Tokyo, Japan, 1932, is a rare folio which contains 80 leaves of plates, chiefly in color, of historical scenes from the Meiji period, 1852-1912. 



 

Miscellaneous books

ca. 1900
Selections from Omar Khayyam

1902
Manual of Guard Duty

Special Collections U193 .U68 1902 

1911
The Death of Tintagiles by Maurice Maeterlinck

Special Collections  PQ2625.A5 I52 1911 


Western North Carolina Travel and Tourism Booklets, Reports, Speeches, Brochures, Postcards and Postcard Folios -
A growing body of material covering many of western North Carolina's most scenic points of interest and unique materials related to politics, social services, tourism, environment, architecture, and more. 

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Altapass Inn 
A postcard describing the amenities of the Inn.

F264.A4 A48 1912 


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Altapass Inn Reporter (1915)
A tri-fold newsletter produced for guests and other tourists. Includes names of guests, menu, temperature chart, and details on recreation activities at the Inn.

  Asheville, N.C. (c.1910)
Postcard view of the city at turn of the century.

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Asheville in "The Land of the Sky"
Brochure produced by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce in the 1920's (1927 ?) detailing the important tourist attractions of the city and surrounding region.
 

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Battery Park Hotel (late 1800's)
Written by E.P. McKissick, the hotel manager, the 12 page booklet describs the hotel in detail. Photographs of the interior and exterior of the hotel.

Special Collections: F264.A8 M355 


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The Beautiful Sapphire Country  (1901) [Lake Toxaway, N.C. : Toxaway Inn Co., 1902?] A 28 page booklet that describes four hotels: Fairfield Inn, Sapphire, N.C. ; The Lodge, Sapphire ;N.C. ; Sapphire Inn, Sapphire, N.C. ; The Franklin, Brevard, N.C. during the summer season of 1901. Photographs by R. Henry Scadin.

Special Collections F262.A18 B43 1902   


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Souvenir of the Bon Marche, Paris (c.1886)
A promotional booklet for the Bon Marche department store in Paris, France which was used for reference in the creation of the  Asheville, N.C. Bon Marche department store, created and owned by the Lipinsky family.
 

brea_cover.jpg (279920 bytes) The Breaker [The Snyder Outdoor School for Boys] (1920)
The 70 page
soft-cover annual is a compilation by students, about instructors, outings, events, and information on the school. The anecdotal stories capture the life of the school and the boy's aspirations and personalities. Young men from throughout the United States attended the school.  

Special Collections  E99.C55 1957
 

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Brief History of Macon County  (1891)
A small 17 page booklet containing a brief history of Macon County, by Dr. C. D. Smith, Franklin North Carolina Press Print, 1891.
 

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Catalogue of the Bingham School (1903)
Official catalog of the Bingham Military School covering the 110th school year from September 3, 1903 to May 26, 1904. The school was established in 1793. The catalog includes photos of the students from various classes, photos, descriptions, and maps of the school grounds, and numerous essays detailing the benefits of a Bingham education.

 

  Cherokees of North Carolina: Living Memorials of the Past by William H. Gilbert, Jr., 1957
History and general research on the Eastern Band of the Cherokee from the Smithsonian Report for 1956.[publication 4289] 8 plates. 

Special Collections  E99.C55 1957


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Chimney Rock Postcard Folio
20 cards in folio format with scenes from the Chimney Rock area, many taken by Plateau Studio owner, Herbert Pelton..
 

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Community Life in Western North Carolina (early 1900's)
A beautiful 40 page booklet published by the Southern Railway Company detailing tourist attractions in western North Carolina. Contains photographs by noted regional photographer Herbert W. Pelton and descriptions of many well-known landmarks in the area at the turn of the century. 

Special Collections F217.A65 S68 1914   


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Dedicating Buncombe County's Court House  (1928)
A 16 page dedication program provided to the public when the Buncombe County Court House was opened in 1928. Includes a brief history of Buncombe County by F.A. Sondley when the corner-stone for the building was laid November 7, 1927.

Is part of the Edgar Lyda Collection


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Dedication of the City Building Asheville NC  (1928)
Dedication program of the City Building of Asheville, NC. Exercises March 19th, 1928. Includes information on the Contractors, the architect, Douglas Ellington, a brief history of Asheville, pictures of the leaders in the two administrations under which the City Hall was built, and a roster of City Commissioners from 1849 (prepared by Gallatin Roberts).

Special Collections F264.A8 D43 1928 

Is part of the Edgar Lyda Collection


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Directory of the Public Schools of Buncombe County, NC, 1928-29
A small 30 page booklet listing schools in Buncombe County in 1928-29 and the administration and teachers associated with the schools.
 

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Directory of Social Resources of Asheville and Buncombe County  (1947)
A 39 page booklet produced by the Social Work Executives of Buncombe County, Community Chest Councils, and the Welfare Planning Council which details the various city services and programs in 1947. Basically serves as an index to services in the region for that year.
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"E.L.R." [Emma Lydia Rankin Memoirs], 1863-65
A collection of memorial testimonies for Emma Lydia Rankin, principal of the Kirkwood Home School for Girls in Lenoir and an account of her harrowing adventures at the close of the Civil War.

Is part of: Julia and Richard Richards Collection [M2006.]


  Easy to follow directions on how to get lost in the land of the sky,  written and edited by Grady Jefferys; designed by John Gilbert, Asheville, N. C. : Asheville Chamber of Commerce, [196?]
A day-by-day four day tour of western North Carolina.

Special Collections F264.A8 J4 

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European Letters by T.W. Patton to The Asheville Citizen. Description of the Tour of the North Carolina Teachers, During the Summer of 1889.  Presenting impressions of Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Paris.
 

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Flowering Trees and Shrubs : Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, North Carolina (1909).
A 63 page catalogue that contains descriptions and illustrations (from photographs) of the trees, shrubs, flowers found on the Biltmore Estate in 1909, that may be perused and ordered by interested persons. Contains index.

Special Collections: SB453.B1 F56 1909 


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Folklore of the North Carolina Mountaineer, by Haywood Parker, (1906) A paper read before the Pen and Plate Club, Asheville, N.C., 1906, signed by Parker and includes a letter to readers of the small pamphlet.

Special Collections GR110.N8 P3 1906 


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Forest Protection or Devastation?  It Is Up to North Carolina! (1920) Addresses made at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Forestry Association in Asheville, N.C. June 9-10, 1920.

Special Collections: SD144.N8 F6475 1920 


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Gold Fields Along the Southern Railway (1897) in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, East Tennessee.
Washington, D.C.: The Southern Railway, 1897. Pamphlet produced by M.V. Richards, Land and Industrial Agent, Southern Railway.

Special Collections:  TN413.A5 G65 1897 


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Golden Book of  Memoirs (Congregation Beth Ha Tephila) (1887-1940)Part of the Congregation Beth Ha Tephila collection at UNCA and prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of the Congregation in Asheville, NC in 1941. This 36 page booklet contains and anniversary message from the Rabbi, a history of the Congregation, a program for the fiftieth anniversary Sabbath Service and the Banquet, a look to the future of the Congregation,  and a list of membership in 1941.

Is part of: Beth Ha Tephila Congregation (Asheville, NC) 1891-   , [M79.13.1-5 ; P79.13.1 ; OS79.13.1]


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Green River Baptist Association: Minutes of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Green River Baptist Association, Convened at Columbus, M.H., Polk County, N.C., Friday September 30th, to October 3, 1859. [np, nd. 1859]  A 13 page document with one pasted errata slip. Disbound and loosened. Contains list of participants at the convention and their churches. Also includes notes on 'Colored' members. Refers to the practice of "speaking in tongues."

Special Collections BX6248.N8 G74 1859 


Grove Park Inn Postcard Folio (after 1917)
A holding within the extensive LeCompte Postcard collection at UNCA. this folio contains multiple views of the Grove Park Inn not long after its opening in 1913.
 

Grove Park Inn Finest Resort in the World ... (after 1917)
 
A 15 page promotional brochure for the Grove Park Inn prepared by Fred Loring Seely and containing information about the Inn, its context, the city of Asheville and other related information about western North Carolina. One of the most informative booklets on the hotel, written by its designer and builder.
 

Grove Park Inn - "In the Land of the Sky" (after 1917)
An 18 page pictorial guide to the Inn and to the region's scenic locations. Prepared for tourism and travel probably after 1917.

 

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Heavy Freight Rates:  How the Southern Railway Discriminates Against Us, (early 1900's)
A one page political flyer folded into four pages that argues that the excessive freight rates demonstrate the need for a competing road in western North Carolina. The flyer is of  unknown origin and date, but most likely dates from the early 1900's..

Is part of the Frank Coxe Collection


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The Indian Path in Buncombe County, by Dr. Gail [Gaillard] Tennent (1940's ?, privately printed.)
A short narrative by Dr. Tennent of the Indian trails found in Buncombe County, North Carolina,  and the history accompanying many of the trails. Contains a rare map of the conjectured paths, prepared for the publication.
 

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The Indian's Curse: A Legend of the Cherokees by F.A. Sondley, LL. D., [Asheville? N. C., n.d. (1911?)]  A 16 page  account of a Cherokee sentinel's death during the French and Indian War and the events that led to his curse on the site where he met his death from a poisoned stream.

Special Collections  E99.C5 S6x 


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The Land of the Sky (1920's)
A 28 page booklet produced by the Passenger Department of Southern Railway as tourism promotional material. The booklet is available in digital format only. Original copy retained by owner.

Special Collections  F261 .G7x


The Land of the Sky: An Idyl  (1892?)
A 22 page booklet featuring a single poem by Winstanley (pseudonym of Thaddeus Coleman) and "inscribed respectfully" to Christian Reid.
 

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The Land of the Sky (1913) : Southern Railway, Premier Carrier of the South
(1913?) An unpaginated promotional booklet for rail travel in scenic western North Carolina. Contains photographs of key monuments, events, and life in the first decade of the twentieth century.
 

  Deposits of Brown Iron Ores (Brown Hematite) in Western North Carolina, (1925) by W.S. Bayley, in North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, Bulletin No.31,. Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1925.

Special Collections  TN834.U5 N31 1925 

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The Land of the Sky and Beyond  (1895 ?)
A small 36 page booklet that describes the area of western North Carolina popularly known as the "Land of the Sky". Produced by the Southern Railway to promote travel and tourism in the region.

Special Collections:  F264.A8 P92 1895 


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Live and Invest in the Land of the Sky (1920's)
A 44 page promotional booklet for real estate interests in Asheville and environs. Includes descriptions of many planned communities in the region. Grouped by real estate company, some information is included regarding the companies.

 

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The Manor (after 1913 ?)
A small 16 page booklet, describing The Manor at Albermarle Park, and the surrounding Asheville area. It has tourists or potential residents as its target audience. One section warns tuberculin patients that they need not apply as they are excluded from the hotel.
 

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Medicine in Buncombe County Down to 1885; Historical and Biographical Sketches by Gaillard Tennent, M.D. (n.d.)
A brief 28 page booklet detailing medical practice in Buncombe County from the late 1700's to 1885 and the lives of the physicians who practiced in the county.

Is part of the William R. Walls, Jr., Collection M80.2.1 

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Memorial of the Cherokee Indians Residing in North Carolina: Praying The payment of their claims, agreeably to the 8th and 12th articles of the treaty of 1835, June 25, 1846
A small 24 page booklet printed at the request of Mr. [?] Haywood and directed by the Committee of Indian Affairs to be distributed to the public in 1846.

Special Collections: E99.C5 C47 1846 


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Merriwether and McCornack's New Battery Park Hotel (1915?)
A 97 page booklet promoting the new hotel and golf at surrounding courses, including the newly opened Grove Park Inn golf-course.

Is part of the Frank Cox Collection


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A Motor Trip Veritably to Nature's Heart in "The Land of the Sky" (1920's?)
A Motor Trip Veritably to Nature's Heart in "The Land of the Sky"
was prepared as a guide to Asheville and vicinity by the Southern Railway System. It is a flyer with text and images arranged in quarto fold.
 

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Oakhurst: Formerly Asheville School for Girls (1916-1917)
A small 32 page catalogue for the School for the Sixth Session of 1916-1917. It describes the administration, faculty, scope and purpose of the school, as well as the schedule, departments of study, examinations and reports, and expenses

Is part of the Herbert D. Miles Collection, 1912-1958 [M2007.09.01]

  "The Occurrence of Rutile in the Titaniferous Magnetites of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee," in The Magnetic Iron Ores of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, by W.S. Bayley, (1923)

Special Collections  QE165 .A2 1923 

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"Overlook" Asheville, North Carolina (1940's ?)
Small, un-paginated, eleven page booklet, describing "Overlook," Fred Seely's private residence on Sunset Mountain. Prepared for the sale of the property by Roy E. Burton, Realtor, in the mid 1940's. Contains text about the home and images of both exterior and interior.
 

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Program of Exercises for North Carolina Day, Friday, December 17, 1909, by R.D.W. Connor.
Prepared by Dr. Connor for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Raleigh, N.C. This 68 page booklet "sets forth the principal historic events connected with the mountainous section of North Carolina."

Special Collections LB3541.N8 C666 1909


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Report on an Examination of a Forest Tract in Western North Carolina (1905)
Bulletin, no. 60,  produced as part of  series by the United States Bureau of Forestry, and detailing a particular tract found in western North Carolina.

Special Collections SD11 .A2 no. 60   


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Rogers' Asheville (1890's)
Created in the1890's, Roger's Asheville was prepared as a guide to Asheville and vicinity. It is a 26 page book with text and images arranged much like a photograph album. Pages are stiff card stock and brittle in most copies.

Special Collections F264.A8 R7 


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Sixty Four Selected Views of Western North Carolina (192?) "The Land of the Sky" - "America's Beauty Spot,"
 Picturesque Western North Carolina. Published by the Southern Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C.

Special Collections F261 .S69 


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Southern Summer Resorts and Camps in the Mountains - Southern Railway System (1922)
New York: Rand McNally & Co.

Special Collections:  F262.A16 S68 1922   


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The Southern Tourist -
April 1924
29 page booklet by the Diversion Publishing Company, Inc. in Asheville, NC.

Special Collections:  G155.U6 S68 1924


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Souvenir Folder of Asheville, North Carolina, "In the 'Land of the Sky'" ( from the Stafford and Wingate Anders Collection.)
Surrogate images scanned from a souvenir folder (25 images) of Asheville produced by the Asheville Post Card Company and dating from the 1930's [?]. Original souvenir folder retained by the owner.

Special Collections


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Souvenir of Asheville of the Sky-Land by Harriet Adams Sawyer (1892)
 An early booklet written as a souvenir of travels to Asheville and environs. Contains 103 pages of descriptions and photographs of Asheville' public buildings, hotels, businesses, scenery, and environment.

Special Collections F264.A8 S2 1892   


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Suggestions for Burning Fuel Economically and Smokelessly in Small Domestic Furnaces and Boilers, City of Asheville, NC. (1891)
A booklet promoting the use of gas burning furnaces. Produced by the city of Asheville.

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The Sunny Southdrawings by E.H. Suydam (1924)
A 34 page booklet containing images and captions describing places and scenery throughout the South drawn by E.H. Sudyam for  the Southern Railway System, the sections on Asheville and Mt. Mitchell are beautifully drawn.

Special Collections F215 .S95 1924   


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[Illustrated Guide Book of  North Carolina Mountains ], author unknown, (early 1900's)
Small 83 page booklet, describing travel in western North Carolina at the end of the 1880's. Booklet includes small hand-tipped original photographs of western North Carolina. Cover and frontispiece are missing and author is unidentified. Date is approximate.
 

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Twenty-Five Years of Engineering in Western North Carolina
Charles Edward Waddell was the first President of the American Association of Civil Engineers, North Carolina Section and this small pamphlet is a record of the many projects that Waddell's company engaged in in western North Carolina. The facilities engineered by Charles E. Waddell & Company from 1902-1927 in Western North Carolina, are mainly in and near Asheville, NC.  This pamphlet contain a brief description of each job and supplemental photographs of the individual projects.

Is part of the Edgar Lyda Collection


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WWNC Radio Station (1929)
A brochure produced in celebration of the first anniversary of WWNC radio station, Asheville, NC.  It contains a brief history of the stations origins and lists and photographs of contributors and individuals who performed or contributed programming to the radio station during the first year of existence.

Is part of the Edgar Lyda Collection


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Western North Carolina "A State Within A State" [1933?]
Booklet produced by the Asheville Citizen-Times to celebrate the economic and social progress of the eighteen counties of western North Carolina. "A State Within A State" refers to the Economic State within a Prosperous State. The booklet contains statistical data and information the counties in the western part of the state. The population, literacy, automobiles, agriculture, income tax, and miscellaneous information is given for each county. A description of the Asheville Times and the Asheville Citizen and of the WWNC Radio Station is also included. (Reproduced with permission, ACT)

Is part of:


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Western North Carolina Railroad Scenery "Land of the Sky" (1880's)
A 13 page booklet published by the Southern Railway Company about major tourist attractions in western North Carolina. It contains illustrated reproductions of photographs taken by noted photographer Herbert W. Pelton and descriptions of many well-known landmarks in the region at the turn of the century.

Special Collections  F261 .W4 1880   


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Winter Homes in the South - The Southern Railway (1900)  [Brochure] A small brochure promoting the real estate and travel and tourism highlights along the route of the Southern Railway.

Special Collections  F215 .W56 1900 


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With Pen and Camera thro' The "Land of the Sky": Western North Carolina and the Asheville Plateau ( 1909)
A large format and beautifully produced 48 page booklet that describes travel in the "Land of the Sky," a region that  includes the Asheville plateau and the Western North Carolina, generally. The booklet contains large photographs with descriptive narrative of key points of interest to tourists and travelers to the area. The narrative by Homer T. Waldron and photographs cover highlights along the well-traveled tourist routes.

Special Collections F262.B94 W3 1911   


Miscellaneous Deeds, Letters, Broadsides, etc., not associated with a collection.
letter001_mod.jpg (395389 bytes) Medical Instructions [?] (Sept. 2, 1832)
Unknown origin. Medical instructions for taking medicine for unknown illness.

 


letter002_mod.jpg (248414 bytes) Letter  to Mrs. Eldridge Melton from Camp Fayettville, June 22, 1861 (1 page, n.d.)
Letter addressed to Mrs. Eldridge Melton informing her of the death of her son John Melton at Camp Fayettville during the Civil War.

 


letter003_mod.jpg (340894 bytes) Letter to Mrs. Eldridge Melton (2 pages, n.d.)
Letter informing Mrs. Melton that her son, James D. Melton has died in Atlanta, GA during the Civil War.

 


letter005_mod.jpg (368556 bytes) Letter to Jane Melton, 1861 (3 pages and envelope, 1861)
Describes conditions in Yorktown, VA during the Civil War. Diseases are described and news sent to members of families in the Swannanoa Valley, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

 



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