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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Spalding, Arthur W. .
Hills O'Ca'liny (1921)
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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,”
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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
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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
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Pratt, Joseph Hyde and Joseph Volney Lewis,Corundum and the Peridotites
of Western North Carolina (1905). Raleigh,
N.C.. North Carolina Geological Survey, Vol. I.
A 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
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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. Henry.
Let 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
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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
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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:
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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 )
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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,"
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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)
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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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Memorial of the Directors of the New
England Mississippi Land Company, Citizens of the State of Massachusetts
(1814)
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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
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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
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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
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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....}
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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
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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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General Description of the City of Nassau, and Island
of New Providence, Bahamas, West Indies, with Meteorological Tables, and
Other Statistics of Interest to Invalids and Travelers (c. 1870) 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.
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Miscellaneous books |
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ca. 1900
Selections from Omar Khayyam |
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1902
Manual of Guard Duty
Special Collections
U193 .U68 1902 |
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1911
The Death of Tintagiles by Maurice Maeterlinck
Special Collections
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Western North Carolina Travel and Tourism
Booklets, Reports, Speeches, Brochures, Postcards and Postcard Folios
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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.
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Asheville, N.C. (c.1910)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
[Djvu images]
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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.]
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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 South : drawings 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
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