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The Land of the Sky

The Land of the Sky Asheville NC, [Cover]
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC at Asheville 28804
Title The Land of the Sky
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/booklets/land_of_sky/land%20of%20the%20sky.htm
Creator Frank Presbrey
Subject Keyword Asheville, NC ; city and architecture; Asheville, NC ;"Land of the Sky" ; Battery Park Hotel ; Holman T. Waldron ; hotels ; travel and tourism ; Asheville, NC ;  Asheville, NC ; Saluda Gateway ; Blue Ridge Mountains ; Hickory Nut Gap ; Round Knob ; Swannanoa River ; French Broad River ; Hot Springs ; Hickory Nut Gap; Linville Gorge; Mount Mitchell Clingman's Dome ; Whiteside Mountain ; Nantahala River; Catawba Falls ; Tuckaseegee Falls ; Spring Creek Falls ; Stroup's Trestle ; Alley's ; Chimney Rock ; Mitchell's Pool ; Lover's Leap ; Painted Rock ; Royal Gorge ; Albemarle Park ; The Manor ; Biltmore House ; Battery Park Hotel ; Kenilworth Inn ;  Patton Avenue  ; Mountain Park Hotel (Hot Springs); Waynesville ; laurel ; rhododendron ;
Subject LCSH Photography (Asheville, N.C.)
Battery Park Hotel (Asheville, N.C.)
Asheville (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works
Asheville (N.C.) -- Architecture
North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Asheville (N.C.) -- Description and travel
Asheville (N.C. -- Travel and tourism
Date 2004-03-24
Publisher

The Matthews-Northrup Co. Buffalo N.Y.
Contributor

Southern Railway Department
Type Source type: Booklet, 28 pages - booklet : illustration, photographs, text
Format [digital] image/jpeg/text ; 
Source Special Collections virtual record. 
Language English
Relation

E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, UNCA ; Documenting the American South, Chapel Hill: Asheville -- the Ideal Autumn and Winter Resort City: Electronic Edition. Washington: Southern Railway (U.S.) Passenger Traffic Dept., 1900?. Documenting the American South, UNC Chapel Hill: Autumn and Winter in the Land of the Sky: Electronic Edition. Washington: Southern Railway (U.S.) Passenger Traffic Dept., 1915? ; Western North Carolina Railroad Scenery "Land of the Sky" (1880's), UNCA Special Collections ; The Sunny South: drawings by E.H. Suydam (1924) ; Southern Summer Resorts and Camps in the Mountains - Southern Railway System (1922) New York: Rand McNally & Co. Special Collections F262.A16 S68 1922 ;  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" UNCA Special Collections  ; Land of the Sky (1913) : Southern Railway, Premier Carrier of the South  (1913?), UNCA Special Collections ;  The Land of the Sky (1920's)   ;  Special Collections F261 .G7x  ;   Community Life in Western North Carolina (early 1900's)   Special Collections  F217.A65 S68 1914 
Coverage 1920's
Rights Any display, publication or public use must credit D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor HW donation of virtual copy only.
Description 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.
Acquisition 2004-03-24 [digital only]
Citation  D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff,  2004
Last update 2004-03-24
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  Cover  lots001 "The Land of the Sky": Western North Carolina, Asheville Plateau. Compliments Pass Dep't Southern Railway. 
  1  lots002 "The Land of the Sky": Asheville Plateau by Frank Presbrey. 
2  lots003 "THE VALLEY OF THE FRENCH BROAD IS ONE CONTINUED PANORAMA OF ROMANTIC AND BEAUTIFUL VISTAS."
3  lots004 Various scenes along the Southern Railway and descriptions for the geographic divisions of North Carolina.
4  lots005 "The Mountain Roads in Western North Carolina offer splendid opportunity for driving."
5  lots006 "Imagine an air so light and pure that breathing itself seems a new-found joy, then throw over all a canopy of bluest of Italian blue, and you 'The Land of the Sky.' ... [Poem about the 'Land of the Sky' ]...The City of Asheville is in the center [sic] of a magnificent natural plateau entirely surrounded by mountains."
 lots007 "The Southern Railway follows the banks of the French Broad River from Asheville to the Hot Springs." [Description of how to travel to the 'Land of the Sky.'] i
6   "THERE ARE MANY PICTURESQUE IF NOT ANCIENT RELICS OF BY-GONE DAYS."
7  lots008 "The crest of the mountains is pierced by a tunnel in which there is a spring, whose waters flow both east and west."
8  lots009 "There are many spots in 'The Land of the Sky' where the most magnificent mountain views are spread before the eye."
9  lots010

"The North Carolina mountain streams are exquisitely beautiful with their rocky beds and overhanging verdure."
10  lots011 "ALL OF THE WILD MOUNTAIN STREAMS PICK THEIR WAY THROUGH MASSES OF BOULDERS."
11  lots012 "[Image] Mount Mitchell is the highest peak in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains...  [Image]   Along the good bicycle roads about Asheville."
12  lots013 Images of scenery between Asheville and Hot Springs. Text describes the climate of the Asheville plateau, sports and leisure activities and hotels available in the area. 
13  lots014 [Image] Black Mountain and [image] a "modest" country home. Text describes the suitability of the Asheville climate for recovering from illness. 
14  lots015 [Image] Grandfather Mountain. [Image]  Roan Mountain and the hotel at its summit. Text describes beauty of scenery and its forests.
15  lots016 [Image] mountain cliff. Caption "IN SOME PLACES THE WALLS OF THE MOUNTAIN SIDES RISE ALMOST PERCIPTATELY [sic] TO DIZZY HEIGHTS."
16  lots017 [Image] The unique "English-like Manor in Albemarle Park, Asheville and text description of the building.
17  lots018 Text describing proximity of neighboring counties and their charms. 
18  lots019 [Images] "Lakes Fairfield and Sapphire in the heart of the North Carolina Mountains, are duplicates of the most beautiful gems of the Adirondacks." [Photos by R.H. Scadin] 
19  lots020 Images of the "chateau of Mr. George Vanderbilt, 'Biltmore' Asheville N.C." [Biltmore Estate]
20  lots021 Image of Fairfield Inn on Lake Fairfield, N.C. Text description of multiple inn' s in the area around the lakes, including Fairfield. 
21  lots022 Image of a mountain.
22  lots023 Image of the French Broad River near the Tennessee line. Text describing the mountains around the lakes and scenery.
23  lots024 Text describing little towns and hamlets in the midst of the mountainous lake region near the Tennessee line.
24  lots025 Images of the summit of Grandfather Mountain and the lake at its base. Text about the images.
25  lots026 Image of the Battery Park Hotel, Asheville N.C. and another of the Kenilworth Inn, Asheville N.C. 
26  lots027 Images of Hayward White Sulphur Springs near Asheville, and the Church of St. John in the Wilderness and Residence, Flat Rock N.C. More descriptions in text.
27  lots028 Images of the Green Park Hotel at Blowing Rock and Eseeola Inn at Linnville, N.C. Text describing the two sites.
28  lots029 Images of the Mitchell House, Black Mountain N.C. and railroad tracks. Text about railways and destinations near and in Asheville for vacationing. 
29  lots030 Images of mountain streams of Western North Carolina for trout fishing and the Mountain Park Hotel, Hot Springs, N.C. Conclusion of text with Asheville as "famous for its unequalled scenery and perfect climate, but no type nor picture can convey an adequate attractiveness of this region." lots030.jpg (399502 bytes)