Arval Woody - FOLDER #9

ARVAL WOODY, CHAIR MAKER ITEM LIST - FOLDER #09 - Photo Album and Individual Photographs
Note: Items are listed in original order as received from the donor.
Box	Folder	Item	Description	Thumbnail
1	09	woo09_001 woo09_002	Woody Family Notes on back of photograph: "Looking from the left of the picture: Arthur and Emily Woody ; Henry and Nancy Woody ; Lennie Larkey [John & Mary Snipes] ; Dow and Sarrah Holifield. [Photographed from original.]
		woo09_003	Genealogical table
		woo09_046	Photograph: Arthur Woody [far rt.] with his wife [?] and [?]. Photographer is unknown. Appears to be copy of an older photograph.
	01	woo09_039	Photograph: Original Woody family chair shop with water-wheel which was used to run the lathe in the wood-shop. n.d.
		woo09_018	Watercolor painting reproduced from photograph of the old family workshop which ran the machinery from water power mill-wheel seen at viewer's right of picture. Painted for Arval and Nora Woody. Artist N [?] Nanders [?].
	05	woo09_023 woo09_025	2 photographs showing original Shell filling station that became Woodys Chair Shop in Grassy Creek, near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Chairs placed in front of station to left of gas pumps. 3rd photograph shows shop as it appeared in later years.
	05	woo09_068	Photograph of Woody's Chair Shop, June, 1964
		woo09_013	Exterior view of Woody's Chair Shop c. 1960's.
			Photograph: View of Woody's Chair Shop with Arval and Walter standing outside and chairs ranged in front of shop.
		woo09_014	Interior view of Woody's Chair Shop with craft displayed. [1960's ?]
		woo09_024	Photograph of Betsy Ross Arm Rocker with price hand-written on bottom "$33.50."
	01	woo09_037 woo09_038	Photograph (8" x 10") [copy ?]of Arthur Woody and his daughter, Mrs. Dessie Woody. Note on back: " Penland School of Handicrafts. Arthur Woody and his daughter, Mrs. Dessie Woody, native craftsmen who work with the Penland School, teach chair-seating after the fashion of the generations of Carolina mountain people who have excelled in the art. A number of industrious and skillful "uplanders" are gathered at Penland to give outsiders instruction in age-old crafts, fast being revived in this country."
		woo09_082	Arval Woody (far right) with assistants. Left to right: ? , ? , ? .
		woo09_083	Arval Woody with chair backs in wooden press after removal from hot water bath.
		woo09_084 woo09_125	Photograph: "Arval Woody putting the wood for chair backs into a press for shaping. The wood has just been boiled for several hours." Taken at the North Carolina State Fair, Raleigh, 1962. [two copies] [source and photographer unknown]
		woo09_126	Photograph: "Walter Woody putting in a chair seat." 1962. Using a durable paper twine, the chair is given a flexible and comfortable seat that is woven.
		woo09_127	Photograph: "General view of booth at State Fair, Raleigh, 1962."
	05	woo09_128	Photograph: "General view of booth at State Fair, Raleigh. Left to right: Paul Woody - Arval Woody - Walter Woody." 1962. {photographer unknown]
		woo09_129	Highland Heights [?]: To left is Walter and Arval Woody. To right is Jerry and Joyce Cooper.
		woo09_141	Arval Woody in his shop next to a chair in process.
		woo09_142	Assistant in the Woody's Chair Shop working at lathe.
		woo09_011	"Seating" a Woody's chair.
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		woo09_015	Snap shopt of Arval Woody in shop gift room with items displayed behind him. n.d.
		woo09_016	Display of two Woody's chairs. One a ladder-back chair and the other the traditional mountain chair with hickory cane seat constructed by Arval's grandfather [?]. n.d.
		woo09_017	Arval and Nora Woody seated in the sales room of Woody's Chair Shop in Spruce Pine, NC. n.d.
		woo09_020	Traditional mountain chair. Constructed with no nails and "seated" with woven hickory cane. Was exhibited at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC. n.d.
		woo09_021	Arval Woody standing behind traditional mountain hickory bottomed chair created by his grandfather, Arthur [?] and exhibited in the Smithsonian exhibit of mountain craft. n.d.
		woo09_134	Photograph: Two Children's Rockers, with Arval Woody seated between the chairs. [Copies of Kennedy children's chairs ?] Possibly child's walnut rocker sent to International Art Program, 1972 ?
		woo09_135	Photograph: Two Children's Rockers. [Copies of Kennedy children's chairs ?] Possibly child's walnut rocker sent to International Art Program, 1972 ?
		woo09_042	Photograph: Exhibit of "Colonial Design Handmade Chairs - Woody's Chair Shop, Spruce Pine, N.C." [Photograph by Lloyd M. Willis, 205 S. Washington St., Shelby, N.C. [thumbnail only]
		woo09_044	Photograph: [?] Holding the book of Representative Poteat, Seat 27, House Bills, 1963 General Assembly. Mrs. Hutchinson, ?, Walter Woody, Arval Woody.
		woo09_102	Photograph: Worker "cleaves out joint," dated October 1977.
		woo03_067	Arval Woody standing to left of ladder back chair.
			Photograph transparencies: Two 35 mm. slides and two large transparencies of Arval and Walter Woody in shop. Used for advertisement for Avondale Knits. [thumbnail only]	See thumbnails only under Series 3
		woo5_0008	Large film negative: "Arvel [sic] Woody. Dining Chair, c. 1930. Walnut, 32 x 17 x 13 1/2" . Collection Arvel [sic]Woody.
		woo5_0009	Photograph: "Woody Folding Gout Rocker," 07/18/92. Note on the reverse of the image. "Woody folding gout rocker. 7/18/92 Guild Fair. What a surprise but a pleasant one. Still a little problem to set up on a slippery floor -- will find a little pad of some kind,. Hope you soon have your throat problem cured. I came down with shingles a couple of weeks ago -- don't like them one bit. Hope to see you at the Oct. Fair. Sincerely, Mary Reed
		woo5_0039	Photograph: Original black and white photograph of Arval Woody working on a chair. Photographer is unknown.

PHOTO ALBUM (8 x 10 ) [Permission pending for full image display of items in photograph album. Collection is random and includes several years of images. Most are by C.E. Westveer and Jim Strickland.]
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