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. |
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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.] |
![IMG_0167.jpg (96662 bytes)](thumbs_woody/IMG_0167_small.jpg)
![IMG_0170.jpg (82868 bytes)](thumbs_woody/IMG_0170_small.jpg) |
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woo09_003 |
Genealogical table |
![IMG_0171a.jpg (79013 bytes)](thumbs_woody/IMG_0171a_small.jpg) |
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woo09_046 |
Photograph: Arthur Woody [far rt.] with his wife [?] and
[?]. Photographer is unknown. Appears to be copy of an older photograph. |
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woo09_039 |
Photograph: Original Woody family chair shop with water-wheel
which was used to run the lathe in the wood-shop. n.d. |
![woo01_039.jpg (196773 bytes)](woo01_039_small.jpg) |
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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 [?]. |
![woo09_018.jpg (264936 bytes)](woo09_018_small.jpg) |
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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. |
![woo09_023.jpg (158889 bytes)](woo09_023_small.jpg)
![woo09_025.jpg (169780 bytes)](woo09_025_small.jpg)
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woo09_068 |
Photograph of Woody's Chair Shop, June, 1964 |
![woo09_068.jpg (121302 bytes)](woo09_068_small.jpg) |
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woo09_013 |
Exterior view of Woody's Chair Shop c. 1960's. |
![woo09_013.jpg (164146 bytes)](woo09_013_small1.jpg) |
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Photograph: View of Woody's Chair Shop with Arval and Walter
standing outside and chairs ranged in front of shop. |
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woo09_014 |
Interior view of Woody's Chair Shop with craft displayed.
[1960's ?] |
![woo09_014.jpg (184183 bytes)](woo09_014_small.jpg) |
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woo09_024 |
Photograph of Betsy Ross Arm Rocker with price hand-written
on bottom "$33.50." |
![woo09_024.jpg (134799 bytes)](woo09_024_small.jpg) |
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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_037.jpg (222608 bytes)](woo09_037_small.jpg)
![woo09_038.jpg (243758 bytes)](woo09_038_small.jpg) |
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woo09_082 |
Arval Woody (far right) with assistants. Left to right: ? ,
? , ? . |
![woo09_082.jpg (294143 bytes)](woo09_082_small.jpg) |
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woo09_083 |
Arval Woody with chair backs in wooden press after removal
from hot water bath. |
![woo09_083.jpg (228028 bytes)](woo09_083_small.jpg) |
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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_084.jpg (192573 bytes)](woo09_084_small.jpg) |
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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_126.jpg (171284 bytes)](woo09_126_small.jpg) |
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woo09_127 |
Photograph: "General view of booth at State Fair, Raleigh,
1962." |
![woo09_127.jpg (189683 bytes)](woo09_127_small.jpg) |
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woo09_128 |
Photograph: "General view of booth at State Fair, Raleigh.
Left to right: Paul Woody - Arval Woody - Walter Woody." 1962.
{photographer unknown] |
![woo03_128.jpg (220547 bytes)](woo03_128_small.jpg) |
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woo09_129 |
Highland Heights [?]: To left is Walter and Arval Woody. To
right is Jerry and Joyce Cooper. |
![woo09_129.jpg (163614 bytes)](woo09_129_small.jpg) |
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woo09_141 |
Arval Woody in his shop next to a chair in process. |
![woo03_141.jpg (169490 bytes)](woo03_141_small.jpg) |
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woo09_142 |
Assistant in the Woody's Chair Shop working at lathe. |
![woo09_142.jpg (206284 bytes)](woo09_142_small.jpg) |
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woo09_011 |
"Seating" a Woody's chair. |
![woo09_011.jpg (216088 bytes)](woo09_011_small.jpg) |
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![woo09_012.jpg (159004 bytes)](woo09_012_small.jpg) |
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woo09_015 |
Snap shopt of Arval Woody in shop gift room with items
displayed behind him. n.d. |
![woo09_015.jpg (183021 bytes)](woo09_015_small.jpg) |
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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_016.jpg (161155 bytes)](woo09_016_small.jpg) |
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woo09_017 |
Arval and Nora Woody seated in the sales room of Woody's
Chair Shop in Spruce Pine, NC. n.d. |
![woo09_017.jpg (199818 bytes)](woo09_017_small.jpg) |
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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_020.jpg (129237 bytes)](woo09_020_small.jpg) |
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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_021.jpg (149501 bytes)](woo09_021_small.jpg) |
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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_134.jpg (161363 bytes)](woo09_134_small.jpg) |
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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_135.jpg (161135 bytes)](woo09_135_small.jpg) |
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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_042.jpg (204284 bytes)](woo09_042_small.jpg) |
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woo09_044 |
Photograph: [?] Holding the book of Representative Poteat, Seat
27, House Bills, 1963 General Assembly. Mrs. Hutchinson, ?, Walter Woody,
Arval Woody. |
![woo09_044.jpg (189811 bytes)](woo09_044_small.jpg) |
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woo09_102 |
Photograph: Worker "cleaves out joint," dated
October
1977. |
![woo09_102.jpg (191393 bytes)](woo09_102_small.jpg) |
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woo03_067
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Arval Woody standing to left of ladder back chair. |
![woo03_067.jpg (157765 bytes)](woo03_067_small.jpg) |
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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 |
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woo5_0008 |
Large film negative: "Arvel [sic] Woody. Dining Chair, c.
1930. Walnut, 32 x 17 x 13 1/2" . Collection Arvel [sic]Woody. |
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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 |
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woo5_0039 |
Photograph: Original black and white photograph of Arval
Woody working on a chair. Photographer is unknown. |
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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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