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Above the Clouds in Penland

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  • This photographic postcard depicts Bailey's Peak, seen from what became the campus of Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) near Penland, North Carolina. The mountain has served as inspiration to countless instructors, students and visitors. This photograph, thought to have been taken by Bayard Wootten sometime in the 1920s or early 1930s, is one of many photographs of Bailey's Peak that have been taken through the decades of the craft school's history.