Fred Seely Family Collection

Fred Seely Family Collection 1901-1980 M2010.11-01 [A virtual collection]
Seely Family at Home in 'Overlook," Asheville, NC
Title	Fred Seely Family Collection
Identifier
Creator	Fred Seely Family
Alt. Creator	Robert Cunningham
Subject Keyword	Fred L. Seely ; Biltmore Estate Industries ; Biltmore Industries ; Homespun Shops ; weaving ; handicraft ; wood carving ; Eleanor P. Vance ; Charlotte L. Yale ; George W. Vanderbilt ; Edith Vanderbilt ; Fred Seely, Jr. ; Harry Blomberg ; E.W. Grove ; Grove Park Inn ; Battery Park Hotel ; Laura Joy Hawley ; Asheville Chamber of Commerce ; Great Smoky Mountains National Park ;
Subject LCSH	Seely, Fred L. Artisans -- North Carolina -- Asheville Region Biltmore Industries (Asheville, N.C.) Decorative arts -- North Carolina -- Asheville Region Grove, E.W. Hand weaving -- North Carolina -- Asheville Region Handicraft -- North Carolina -- Asheville Region Weavers -- North Carolina -- Asheville Region Weaving -- Appalachian Mountains
Description	Materials in this collection are donated from the family of Fred L. Seely, who was associated with the Biltmore Estate Industries, the Biltmore Industries, and Biltmore Homespun Shops. The material include early photographs and materials that are related to Seely's life before coming to Asheville, NC in 1912. The collection includes a web exhibit created by the great-grandson of Fred L. Seely and photographs provided by the family to be shared in a virtual environment. As architect and manager of the Grove Park Inn, Seely's papers are retained by the Grovewood Gallery, Inc. which maintains the history of the Biltmore Industries and the large archive of documents associated with the the Inn and the Biltmore Industries as they were under Seely's management. The total size of the BILTMORE INDUSTRIES ARCHIVE manuscript collection exceeds 150 linear feet. This virtual collection and small body of personal books and items from the Seely family complement the larger archive held by Biltmore Industries, Inc.
Publisher	D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville
Contributor	Seely Family members
Date original	1920's - present
Date digital	2011-04-19
Type	Text ; Image ; Objects
Format	Digital file ; html ; jpg
Source	M2010.11.01 - virtual
Language	English
Relation	Fred L. Seely Oral History ; E.M. Ball Photographic Collection ; BILTMORE INDUSTRIES ARCHIVE EXHIBIT & HISTORY ; Carolina Mountain Club Archive ; Blomberg Family Papers ;
Coverage temporal	1901-1980 ;
Coverage spatial	Asheville, NC;
Rights	UNCA is a repository for the surrogate copies of photographs and some transcribed and/or scanned documents from the Seely family. The electronic finding aid and the associated web-pages reproduce physical items that are held by the Seely family. To view the original manuscript files, photographs, objects, and video recordings that constitute the digital images on these pages, the researcher must contact the Seely family directly. Any display, publication or public use of the materials must seek permission from and acknowledge the Seely family as the holder of original material and the UNCA D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections as the virtual repository. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor	Donor number
Acquisition	2010 - and ongoing
Citation	Fred Seely Family Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville
Processed by	UNCA Special Collections staff, 2011-04-19
Latest update	2004-06-04 ; 2004-09-04
HISTORY	BILTMORE INDUSTRIES ARCHIVE EXHIBIT & HISTORY

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BOOKS
	Property of John M. Beard & McLeod & Co. Manila, P.I.		Banner, Hubert, S. romantic Java: As I Was & Is A description of the diversified peoples, the departed glories & strange customs of a little known island, remarkable both for its arts, decorative & dramatic & for its natural beauty & the richness of its resouces. (with 40 illustrations & Map), London: Seeley, Service Co. Limited, 1927. Accounts of the eruption of the volcano, Karakatoa ; Early life in Indonesia. Folk tales ; legends ; temples and shrines ; weddings ; funerals ; art ; music ; dance ; problems of Dutch colonists ; British Java ; spell and potions ; ceremonies
			Tisdale, Alice. Pioneering Where the World is Old (Leaves from a Manchurian Note-book). New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1917. [First published by the Atlantic Monthly company, 1916, 1917) Alice Tisdale Hobart (January 28, 1882 – March 14, 1967) wrote of her early travels in China and later of her life as the wife of an executive of Standard Oil Company working in China. Tisdale was present in the country when the rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty occurred in 1912. Born in New York, she briefly attended the University of Chicago. It was her experiences at the hands of the Manchurian insurgents in 1916 and the publication of that experience in the Atlantic Monthly under the title of "Leaves From a Manchurian Diary" that that led to the later publication of Pioneering Where the World is Old in 1917. This first work was followed by nearly a dozen other works.
	[To] Julia A. Mitchell, Oct. 20th, 1904		Carey, Rosa Nouchette. At the Moorings. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott company, 1904. A writer of fictional accounts of life at the turn of the century, Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909) was born in England and wrote over 40 novels, most were domestic melodramas. An important writer in the women's literary marketplace, Rosa was quite successful and commanded a large following.
	"To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor, from Courtney & Louis, Best Wishes, Carl Goerch."		Goerch, Carl. Ocracoke. Raleigh, North Carolina, 1956. A first edition, signed copy, with dust jacket. The book is an account of the Ocracoke coast of North Carolina. The book describes all aspects of the geography and history of the island. Illustrated with drawings by Primrose.
		PN6081 .H87 1927 B68 .H82x vol.5 1904 CT3230 .H8 1897	Elbert Hubbard. Little Journeys. Complete set Little Journeys To The Homes Of Famous Women Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons [1897] 3 p. l., 429 p. front., ports., fold. facsim. 18 cm Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Philosophers. Schopenhauer Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycrofters, 1904 [13], 130-153, [7] p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cM Little Journeys To The Homes Of The Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 New York, W.H. Wise & Co. [c1916] 14 v. fronts., pl., ports. 22 cm
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