Western Carolina University (21)
View all
- Canton Champion Fibre Company (2308)
- Cherokee Traditions (291)
- Civil War in Southern Appalachia (165)
- Craft Revival (2211)
- George Masa Collection (337)
- Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America (3512)
- Highlights from Western Carolina University (422)
- Horace Kephart (1014)
- Journeys Through Jackson (159)
- LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County (93)
- Oral Histories of Western North Carolina (338)
- Picturing Appalachia (7081)
- Stories of Mountain Folk (413)
- Travel Western North Carolina (153)
- Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum Vitreograph Collection (129)
- Western Carolina University Herbarium (92)
- Western Carolina University: Making Memories (738)
- Western Carolina University Publications (2491)
- Western Carolina University Restricted Electronic Theses and Dissertations (146)
- Western North Carolina Regional Maps (71)
- World War II in Southern Appalachia (131)
University of North Carolina Asheville (6)
View all
- Allanstand Cottage Industries (62)
- Appalachian National Park Association (53)
- Bennett, Kelly, 1890-1974 (1629)
- Berry, Walter (76)
- Brasstown Carvers (40)
- Campbell, Carlos C. (Carlos Clinton), 1892-1978 (940)
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 (26)
- Cathey, Joseph, 1803-1874 (1)
- Champion Fibre Company (233)
- Champion Paper and Fibre Company (297)
- Cherokee Indian Fair Association (16)
- Cherokee Language Program (22)
- Crowe, Amanda (40)
- Edmonston, Thomas Benton, 1842-1907 (7)
- Ensley, A. L. (Abraham Lincoln), 1865-1948 (275)
- Fromer, Irving Rhodes, 1913-1994 (70)
- George Butz (BFS 1907) (46)
- Goodrich, Frances Louisa (120)
- Grant, George Alexander, 1891-1964 (96)
- Heard, Marian Gladys (60)
- Kephart, Calvin, 1883-1969 (15)
- Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931 (313)
- Kephart, Laura, 1862-1954 (101)
- Laney, Gideon Thomas, 1889-1976 (439)
- Masa, George, 1885-1933 (183)
- McElhinney, William Julian, 1896-1953 (44)
- Niggli, Josephina, 1910-1983 (10)
- North Carolina Park Commission (105)
- Osborne, Kezia Stradley (9)
- Owens, Samuel Robert, 1918-1995 (11)
- Penland Weavers and Potters (36)
- Roberts, Vivienne (15)
- Roth, Albert, 1890-1974 (142)
- Schenck, Carl Alwin, 1868-1955 (1)
- Sherrill's Photography Studio (2565)
- Southern Highland Handicraft Guild (127)
- Southern Highlanders, Inc. (71)
- Stalcup, Jesse Bryson (46)
- Stearns, I. K. (213)
- Thompson, James Edward, 1880-1976 (226)
- United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board (130)
- USFS (683)
- Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894 (1)
- Weaver, Zebulon, 1872-1948 (58)
- Western Carolina College (230)
- Western Carolina Teachers College (282)
- Western Carolina University (2008)
- Western Carolina University. Mountain Heritage Center (18)
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (10)
- Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967 (73)
- Williams, Isadora (3)
- Cain, Doreyl Ammons (0)
- Crittenden, Lorraine (0)
- Rhodes, Judy (0)
- Smith, Edward Clark (0)
- Appalachian Region, Southern (3110)
- Asheville (N.C.) (2049)
- Avery County (N.C.) (26)
- Blount County (Tenn.) (247)
- Buncombe County (N.C.) (1805)
- Cherokee County (N.C.) (287)
- Clay County (N.C.) (557)
- Graham County (N.C.) (253)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) (832)
- Haywood County (N.C.) (3598)
- Henderson County (N.C.) (72)
- Jackson County (N.C.) (4953)
- Knox County (Tenn.) (61)
- Knoxville (Tenn.) (21)
- Lake Santeetlah (N.C.) (14)
- Macon County (N.C.) (427)
- Madison County (N.C.) (216)
- McDowell County (N.C.) (39)
- Mitchell County (N.C.) (135)
- Polk County (N.C.) (40)
- Qualla Boundary (991)
- Rutherford County (N.C.) (124)
- Swain County (N.C.) (2629)
- Transylvania County (N.C.) (275)
- Watauga County (N.C.) (15)
- Waynesville (N.C.) (97)
- Yancey County (N.C.) (89)
- Aerial Photographs (3)
- Aerial Views (60)
- Albums (books) (4)
- Articles (1)
- Artifacts (object Genre) (228)
- Bibliographies (1)
- Biography (general Genre) (4)
- Booklets (4)
- Brochures (16)
- Cards (information Artifacts) (38)
- Catalogs (documents) (1)
- Clippings (information Artifacts) (195)
- Copybooks (instructional Materials) (3)
- Crafts (art Genres) (622)
- Depictions (visual Works) (21)
- Design Drawings (2)
- Digital Moving Image Formats (2)
- Drawings (visual Works) (185)
- Envelopes (119)
- Exhibitions (events) (1)
- Facsimiles (reproductions) (1)
- Fiction (general Genre) (5)
- Financial Records (12)
- Fliers (printed Matter) (67)
- Glass Plate Negatives (381)
- Group Portraits (354)
- Guidebooks (2)
- Illustrations (layout Features) (1)
- Internegatives (10)
- Interviews (828)
- Land Surveys (102)
- Letters (correspondence) (1086)
- Manuscripts (documents) (618)
- Maps (documents) (187)
- Memorandums (25)
- Minutes (administrative Records) (59)
- Negatives (photographs) (6708)
- Newsletters (1290)
- Newspapers (2)
- Notebooks (8)
- Occupation Currency (1)
- Paintings (visual Works) (1)
- Pen And Ink Drawings (1)
- Periodicals (199)
- Personal Narratives (11)
- Photographs (13583)
- Plans (maps) (1)
- Poetry (8)
- Portraits (4679)
- Postcards (435)
- Programs (documents) (181)
- Publications (documents) (2472)
- Questionnaires (65)
- Relief Prints (26)
- Sayings (literary Genre) (1)
- Scrapbooks (282)
- Sheet Music (2)
- Slides (photographs) (402)
- Songs (musical Compositions) (2)
- Sound Recordings (826)
- A.L. Ensley Collection (275)
- Appalachian Industrial School Records (7)
- Appalachian National Park Association Records (336)
- Axley-Meroney Collection (2)
- Bayard Wootten Photograph Collection (20)
- Bethel Rural Community Organization Collection (7)
- Blumer Collection (5)
- C.W. Slagle Collection (20)
- Canton Area Historical Museum (2110)
- Carlos C. Campbell Collection (894)
- Cataloochee History Project (64)
- Cherokee Studies Collection (4)
- Daisy Dame Photograph Album (5)
- Daniel Boone VI Collection (1)
- Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection (112)
- Elizabeth H. Lasley Collection (1)
- Elizabeth Woolworth Szold Fleharty Collection (4)
- Frank Fry Collection (95)
- George Masa Collection (173)
- Gideon Laney Collection (452)
- Hazel Scarborough Collection (2)
- Hiram C. Wilburn Papers (28)
- Historic Photographs Collection (236)
- Horace Kephart Collection (861)
- Humbard Collection (33)
- Hunter and Weaver Families Collection (1)
- I. D. Blumenthal Collection (4)
- Isadora Williams Collection (4)
- Jesse Bryson Stalcup Collection (47)
- Jim Thompson Collection (224)
- John B. Battle Collection (7)
- John C. Campbell Folk School Records (80)
- John Parris Collection (6)
- Judaculla Rock project (2)
- Kelly Bennett Collection (1657)
- Love Family Papers (11)
- Major Wiley Parris Civil War Letters (3)
- Map Collection (12)
- McFee-Misemer Civil War Letters (34)
- Mountain Heritage Center Collection (4)
- Norburn - Robertson - Thomson Families Collection (44)
- Pauline Hood Collection (7)
- Pre-Guild Collection (2)
- Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual Collection (12)
- R.A. Romanes Collection (681)
- Samuel Robert Owens Collection (94)
- Sara Madison Collection (144)
- Sherrill Studio Photo Collection (2558)
- Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Collection (616)
- Stearns-Grueninger Collection (222)
- Stories of Mountain Folk - Radio Programs (374)
- The Reporter, Western Carolina University (510)
- Venoy and Elizabeth Reed Collection (16)
- WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project (36)
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center Oral Histories (25)
- WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives (71)
- WCU Students Newspapers Collection (1923)
- Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project (69)
- William Williams Stringfield Collection (2)
- Zebulon Weaver Collection (109)
- African Americans (390)
- Appalachian Trail (41)
- Artisans (521)
- Cherokee art (84)
- Cherokee artists -- North Carolina (10)
- Cherokee language (21)
- Cherokee pottery (102)
- Cherokee women (210)
- Church buildings (195)
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) (124)
- College student newspapers and periodicals (2012)
- Dams (130)
- Dance (1023)
- Education (222)
- Floods (82)
- Folk music (1015)
- Forced removal, 1813-1903 (2)
- Forest conservation (220)
- Forests and forestry (1273)
- Gender nonconformity (4)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) (203)
- Hunting (57)
- Landscape photography (27)
- Logging (134)
- Maps (84)
- Mines and mineral resources (21)
- Paper industry (58)
- Postcards (258)
- Pottery (141)
- Railroad trains (94)
- Rural electrification -- North Carolina, Western (3)
- School integration (16)
- Slavery (6)
- Sports (452)
- Storytelling (243)
- Waterfalls -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) (66)
- Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern (281)
- Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern (328)
- World War, 1939-1945 (175)
Nestling in the coves
-
These photographs were taken by Edgar S. Purdom. Born in 1900, Purdom opened a custom furniture shop in Wayah Valley, near Franklin, NC, in 1946. He was a hobby photographer and made these photographs in western North Carolina. There are 56 photographs in the series. Purdom died in 1987 and is buried at St. John's Cartoogechaye Episcopal Church Cemetery.
-
Related items
-
Ann and Will Sloan House, Franklin, N.C. Sunnyside Farm
-
Broom making
-
Apples drying in the sun
-
Mary Ann Kitchens and cabin
-
Old Gene Moher sitting in front of cabin
-
Aquone
-
Railroad bridge
-
Man drinking from gourd at spring
-
View. House with stone wall
-
Cabin on Sassafras Gap
-
Sorghum Time (cutting & grinding cane)
-
“Henry Scadin Homes. Laureldale, Dana, N.C.”
-
Woman churning butter
-
Home of Walker sisters
-
Grinding cane
-
View. House with dogwoods
-
CCC officer's headquarters cabin in Greenbrier
-
Twin Falls
-
View. Flowering bush
-
Field of shuck stacks
-
View. Three-story house
-
Tom Ogle’s cabin
-
Old man at anvil (gem maker)
-
Nancy Sue Waldroup
-
Getting supper at Hall Cabin
-
Appalachian family
-
Ashley Simmons' place
-
Hiking Club cabin in Greenbrier
-
Block home and wooden building
-
Mount LeConte cabin
-
Nancy Sue Waldroup and Wanda Scroggs
-
Cabin 34 Elkmont, Tennessee
Part of Collection
Picturing Appalachia
-
Man in yard
-
Wrecked automobile
-
Portrait of man in yard
-
Portrait of child
-
Portrait of two women next to house
-
Portrait of man and woman
-
Girl in field
-
Man and baby
-
New First Baptist Church, Cornelia, Georgia
-
Jail break in Bryson City
-
Asheville from Beaucatcher
-
Mountain Scenery: The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina
-
Tuckasegee River, Near Bryson City
-
W.G. Davis
-
Portrait of family group
-
Mildred Chosewood and boy with chickens
-
Tuckasegee River
-
Noble Garrett
-
Portrait of woman and children by rock building
-
Ruth Moulton
-
Woman in front of Lady in the Lake motion picture poster in Lawton, Oklahoma
-
Two people on sled in snow
-
Swain Overland Co. filling station
-
Men dining
-
Group portrait
-
Waterville Dam
-
Portrait of man in field
-
Portrait of family with man in military uniform
-
Portrait: man
-
Cornelia Bank now open
-
Jackson County Centennial parade
-
Judge Wall group tour at Fontana Dam
