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Cover page from World Outlook, November 1919, 
illustration by Remingrton Schuyler, 
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC Asheville
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See also: Asheville, Western North Carolina and Region - A Selected Bibliography

Articles, Periodicals, Newspapers
Related to Western North Carolina & Southern Appalachian Region

  The Appalachian Appeal (Newsletter)

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  The Appalachian Appeal - Official Home Mission Organ of the Presbyterian Synod of Appalachia [1930]

*Note: We are interested in additional copies of this publication and would welcome donations.


  Appletons' Journal: A Magazine of General Literature (Periodical)
    "Picturesque America: Farm on the French Broad, and Hickory-Nut Gap, with Illustrations by Harry Fenn" by Henry E. Colton in Appeltons' Journal, vol.4 issue 87, 1870, pp. 644. [Making of America - Michigan]
    "Picturesque America: Farm on the French Broad, and Hickory-Nut Gap, with Illustrations by Harry Fenn" by Henry E. Colton in Appeltons' Journal, vol.4 issue 90, 1870, pp. 737-738. [Making of America - Michigan]
    "Picturesque America: Part I, Mountain Island ... with Illustrations by Harry Fenn" by Henry E. Colton in Appeltons' Journal, vol.5 issue 93, Jan. 7, 1871, pp. 15-18. [Making of America - Michigan]
    "Picturesque America: Part III, Reem's Creek ... with Illustrations by Harry Fenn" by Henry E. Colton in Appeltons' Journal, vol.5 issue 97, , 1871, pp. 135-137. [Making of America - Michigan]
  Atlantic Monthly (1899) (Periodical)

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  Frost, William Goodall, "Our  Contemporary Ancestors in the Southern Mountains," Atlantic Monthly, 1899. (incomplete)
 

     
  Big Stone Gap Citizen (reprint) (Newspaper), n.d.

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  Frost, William Goodall, "The Ladder of Success," [Speech for the] Educational Rally at Big Stone Gap [Virginia], Citizen reprint No. 10, [Special Correspondence to the Citizen], n.d.
 

     
  Black Mountain College Bulletin
bmc_001.jpg (84009 bytes)   Black Mountain College Bulletin, 1945
A glimpse of the famous western North Carolina college during the war years.
     
  Century Magazine, 1918

  Hartt, Rollin Lynne. "The Mountaineers: Our Own Lost Tribes," , Published as vignettes in Century magazine, 95:399 (Jan. 1918), pp. 395-404. With illustrations by John Wolcott Adams.
 

     
  Christian Science Monitor, 1921 (Newspaper)
glimpse_ky_mnts.jpg (527955 bytes)   "A Glimpse of the Kentucky Mountains," in the Christian Science Monitor, ?., 1921. Discusses the development of Appalachian urban settlement against the rural settlement.
 

     
  The Geographical Journal, 1901
    Semple, Ellen Churchill. "The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: A Study in Anthropogeography."  The Geographical Journal, Vol. 17, No. 6 (Jun., 1901), pp. 588-623
 

     
  Harper's New Monthly Magazine (Periodical)

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  Porte Crayon. "North Carolina Illustrated"  Part IV. 'The Gold Region.'", Harper's New Monthly Magazine, August 1857, Vol. 15, Issue 87, p.289-300. 

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  Davis, Rebecca Harding. "By-Paths in the Mountains. I, II, III" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, August 1880, Vol. 61, Issue 363,  [Making of America - Cornell]
  Highland Messenger (Newspaper), 1841

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  Highland Messenger, 1841, vol. II, issue 15, Asheville, NC [Framed and located in periodical area of main library floor]
Published from 1840 to 1848, this Whig paper is one of the earliest Asheville newspapers. Articles on politics, slavery, advertisements, education, medical practice, and other interesting topics are scattered throughout the four pages of the paper.

     
  Home Mission Monthly (Periodical), 1923

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  "Asheville Home School: Dedication of the Florence Stephenson Building," in Home Mission Monthly, 1923. Dedication of the Florence Stephenson Building.
 

 

New Testament Christian (Newspaper)

  The New Testament Christian - A Message from Eliada Home for Children, 1909, 1937, 1965  [1909-1975]

For additional information see Eliada Home Archive


 

  Our Mountain Work (Newspaper)

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  Our Mountain Work (newspaper of the Asheville Presbytery) [1919-1931]

*Note: We are interested in additional copies of this publication and would welcome donations.


     
  Red Cross Magazine, (Periodical) 1919
  Flexner, Hortense." Are You Too Old to Learn?" , Red Cross Magazine, 14: 11-14, 62, 64, Sept. 1919.
     
  The Southern Tourist (Periodical), 1924
    The Southern Tourist, James H. Caine, Ed. (April 1924)
Serial published once a month by Diversion Publishing company, Inc., Asheville, N.C.

Special Collections: G155.U6 S68 1924 
     
  Smith Alumnae Quarterly (1911) (Periodical)

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  deLong, Ethel, "Doings On Troublesome," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, July 1911, pp. 17-22.
    "The College Settlements Association," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 1909
 

     
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redbird_settlement_001.jpg (2002906 bytes)  redbird_settlement_002.jpg (1229560 bytes)    "On the Banks of the Red Bird." [1920's Newspaper article] [Red Bird Settlement  -  early years. Founded in 1921, the school at Beverly, Kentucky was established by the Evangelical United Brethren Church.]
 
     
  World Outlook ; The Outlook (Periodical), 1919

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  Felton, Ralph A., "A Race of Rip Van Winkles Wakes Up." pp. 20-32 "Our Southern Highlands," World Outlook, November 1919, [fragment]
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  Kirkland, Winifred. "Mountain Music," The Outlook. New York, 1919. 4. v. 123, p. 593.  Kirkland draws parallels to the natural sounds found in Appalachia and Appalachian music.

 



Periodicals and Series -
Not Western North Carolina or Southern Appalachian

  John Martin's Book

  John Martin's Book: A Magazine for Little Children(1912-1933) [SC Periodical shelves]
Published by John Martin's House : New York, this collection represents a nearly complete run of the periodical. Sub-title varies: The Children's Magazine; The Magazine for Young People and Johnny Junior Book for Little Folk; A Magazine for Little Children

UNCA SPEC COLL AP201.J66


  The Nidiologist [Nidologist] [SC Periodical shelves]

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  The Nidiologist [Nidologist] (1893-1897)
"An illustrated monthly magazine devoted to the study of ornithology and with special reference to the nidification of North American Birds." Edited by Henry Reed Taylor.

    The Warbler (1910) [SC Periodical shelves]
An illustrated monthly magazine for ornithologists and "birders." The second series of the periodical, published by the John Lewis Childs Museum and Library of Natural History.

    Great Men and Famous Women, Horne, Charles F.(1894) [SC Periodical shelves] New York: Selmar Hess Publishers. An 8 volume set of books containing pen and pencil sketches by Gustav Dore, Alonzo Chappel, A. R. Ward, and biographies of 200 individuals. Includes such personages as William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Homer, Horace, Victor Hugo, Washington Irvi's ng, Samuel Johnson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton, Moliere, Petrarch, Plato, Alexander Pope, Schiller, Sir Walter Scott, and others.

  World War II & Foreign Periodicals

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  Germany
Information regarding journeys to and in Germany. Information is supplied by the Inquiry and Publicity Office of the Reich Tourist association; Distributed in the United States by the German Railroads Information Office./ Also issued in French, German, and Spanish eds.

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  Communism in Germany;
the truth about the communist conspiracy on the eve of the national revolution, 1933
Translation of Bewaffneter aufstand

  No more Reparations
A textbook on Reparations published in time for the Lausanne Conference in 1932. Originally published February 1932 in Berlin under the title Schluss mit den Reparationen. Published in June 1932 in New York under the title No more Reparations.

  German Library of Information New York, Collection
Facts in Review
: Vol. 1, no. 1] (Aug. 16, 1939)-
Ceased with: v. 3, no. 20 (June 7, 1941).
Issues for Aug. 16-Sept. 2, 1939 issued without series numbering but constitute v. 1, no. 1-4.

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  German Calendars
Issued by the Deutscher Reichsbahn

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Olympic Games (Berlin) 1936
Information regarding XI Olympic Games in Berlin and Olympic History. Information is supplied by Publicity Commission for the Eleventh Olympic Games, Berlin, 1936, and for the Fourth Olympic Winter Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House
Collection of political pamphlets printed in Moscow and distributed abroad for English language audience

  Russian and East German/communist propaganda
State and revolution by Lenin ; Soviet cinema 1918 - 1945 ; German Democratic Republic 1949 - 1951

  Soviet News Booklets
Collection of Soviet political pamphlets printed in London, England

  .Foreign Languages Press Peking, China
English language propaganda published in the 1950's by the Foreign Language Press Peking
     

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