Hart Ephemera Collection M2024.02 - Special Collections & University Archives (2024)

• Asheville, North Carolina: America’s Beauty-spot in the Land of the Sky, 1910. (Asheville Board of Trade)
• Lindsey’s Guide Book to Western North Carolina, 1890 (T. H. Lindsey, Author and Publisher) ; map of Asheville; Nutshell Guide: Asheville and Environs (Asheville Printing Co.)
• Roger’s Asheville (1902)
• “Pack Square,” photo attributed to H. W. Pelton
• Asheville and Vicinity: “Where the Snow-Birds Nest,” 1898 (Board of Trade of Asheville)
• “Asheville, North Carolina, and Vicinity: ‘Where Life is Worth While’,” (Asheville Post Card Co.)
• Picturesque Western North Carolina: Sixty Four Selected Views, (Southern Post Card Co, Asheville, NC)
• “The Good Old Days,” special supplement to the Asheville Citizen-Times, September 30, 1989.
• “Souvenir of Asheville, NC,” (two copies dated 1906 and 1912) (H. Taylor Rogers)
• “Asheville, North Carolina: In the Land of the Sky,” circa 1918-20
• Souvenir of Asheville, NC, c. 1880s (J. N. Morgan &Co., Asheville)
• Asheville, or the Sky-Land, 1892 (Mrs. Harriet Adams Sawyer)
• “Dedication of the City Building, Asheville, NC,” program. 1928 (includes a George Masa photograph), article about Douglas Ellington in the Asheville Citizen-Times, March 1998, and Mars Hill Junior College pamphlet, c. 1920s
• “Colonel Samuel Bell Grudger,” (one page biography).; “A Small Bit of History,” by Owen Gudger (booklet)
• “Asheville As I Remember It,” by Eugene Clarke (1975)
• “Asheville, North Carolina: Forty-Six Years in Asheville,1889-1935,” 1935 and “Fifty-Eight Years in Asheville,” 1948. Both by Charles A. Webb
• “The Hillbilly,” January, 1921. (Asheville High School literary journal) Includes a signed poem by Marian Case Havener
• “Asheville Senior High School Dedication Program, February 5, 1929” ; Asheville High School Commencement program, 1922.

Binder 3: Asheville and Environs Promotional Brochures. Summer Camps

• “Asheville, North Carolina: In the Land of the Sky” – two different brochures published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, one dated 1929 and one not dated. Includes photographs by George Masa
• Four “Land of the Sky” brochures published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Mid 20th Century. Includes photographs by George Masa.
• Three “Asheville ‘In the Land of the Sky:’ Metropolis of the Southern Highlands” brochures. Published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Dated 1926, 1928, and 1930.
• Four “Asheville In the Land of the Sky” brochures and maps. Published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Undated.
• Two “Asheville: America’s Beauty Spot” brochures. Published by the Asheville Board of Trade and Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Early 20th Century
• Three Asheville brochures and one Knoxville brochures with maps. One dated 1961-62, the others not dated.
• Two “Asheville: America’s Playground All the year” brochures from the 1920s. Published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.
• Three brochures: “Golf in Asheville & Biltmore” dated 1931, “Asheville Golf & Country Club: Good Golf in the Land of Friendly Mountains” (no date), and “Golf in the Land of the Sky: Country Club of Asheville,” circa 1920s
• “1950 Polo Program and Information Manual, Western Carolina Polo Club” (two copies)
• “The Mimosa Garden Club, Asheville, NC, 1941-42.” Features a hand-drawn and painted pink dogwood on the cover.
• “Summer Camps for Boys and Girls in the Land of the Sky,” published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and Camps of Western North Carolina. Mid 20th century.
• “Boys’ Camps and Girls’ Camps in the Southern Appalachian Mountains,” published by the Southern Railway System, circa 1920s.
• “Chunns’ Cove Camp for Girls – 1929”
• Two brochures: “Camp Rushing Water,” Bear Wallow, Hickory Nut Gorge, and brochure of Camp Greystone, Chimney Rock Camp, and Camp Pinnacle (Hendersonville). No dates, but probably 1920s.
• “All the Year! Touring, Sports, Amusem*nt, Rest, and Joy. Mountain Altitude of 2500 feet. Asheville, North Carolina.” Published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. (note: some of the photos credited to Asheville-Biltmore Film Co. and Plateau Studios may represent some of George Masa’s earliest published photos.
• Two brochures: “Let the TIMES Introduce You to Asheville and Western North Carolina,” published by the The Asheville Times, circa. 1927. Includes two postcards of the Citizen-Times Building, and “Where to Go, What to Do, What to See – Asheville, in the Land of the Sky,” circa 1920s.
• Brochure: “Introducing the New Biltmore Drug Store.” Undated.
• Two brochures: “The Skyland Magazine,” Hendersonville, 1936, and “This Week in the Land of the Sky,” 1940
• Two brochures: “Live and Invest in the Land of the Sky: Asheville, NC,” published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and the Asheville Real Estate Board,” (includes information about realtors and developments), circa late 1920s, and “Asheville: Eastern America’s Cool Vacation Land,” includes highway map of east coast, circa. 1930s
• “Asheville: Land of the Sky, America’s Beauty Spot and All Year Playground,” 1923. Published by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Includes a page of comments and notation by the donor, Bill Hart.
• “Asheville: Land of the Sky – America’s All Year Resort,” published by the Asheville Board of Trade, circa 1921.
• “Opportunities Agricultural: Buncombe County, Land of the Sky,” published by the Asheville Board of Trade, circa 1920.

Binder 4: Southern Railway Promotional Material, Boxed Postcards, and Miniature Items

• Western North Carolina R.R. Scenery – Land of the Sky (circa 1890s)
• Two Southern Railway System booklets: Summer Vacations: Southern Appalachian Mountains (1928) (contains uncredited photos taken by George Masa); “Land of the Sky: Southern Appalachian Mountains”
• “Asheville – Its wonderful Tourist Hotels and Golf Courses,” Southern Railway System. (circa 1925)
• Two Southern Railway System booklets: “Autumn and Winter in the Land of the Sky,” (circa 1918); “The Land of the Sky: Western North Carolina Asheville Plateau,” (circa 1900).
• Shelf card: Rail grade, “Hotel and Fountain (Andrews Geyser) at Round Knob,’ by T.H. Lindsey, Shelf card: Rail grade, Hotel and Andrews Geyser, by McFarland; and 1910 railroad ticket, Shelby to Asheville
• “A Trip to the Land of Sky and Beyond, to Distinguished Members of the American Medical Association, by the Southern Railway Company,” excursion on May 8-10, 1896
• Two Southern Railway System booklets: “Community Life in Western North Carolina,” (circa 1917); “The Land of the Sky” magazine, 1912
• Three Southern Railway System booklets/maps: “Life in Western North Carolina,” 1914; “Land of the Sky” brochure with maps, 1917; Southern Railway System Timetables of Passenger Trains, June 2, 1946.
• “The Land of the Sky,” Southern Railways booklet, 1913.
• Two Southern Railway system brochures: “Come to Asheville and the ‘Land of the Sky:’ Travel via the Scenic Rail Route, (1953); “America’s Beauty Spot: Asheville, North Carolina.” (1917)
• Two different small hardback books, both titled Land of the Sky: Views of the Western North Carolina R.R.
• A number of postcards and postcard photos depicting Western North Carolina dating from the early 20th century.
• Miniature maps: “A Walking Tour of Asheville Bookstores” and a miniature copy of the words to “The Old North State,” the state song of North Carolina.
• Three miniature boxes photographs: “Western North Carolina,” “Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” and “Asheville, NC – In the Land of the Sky.”

Binder 5: Western North Carolina Lodging Establishments, Chimney Rock Promotions, and Shelf Cards

• Four brochures: “Fryemont Inn” (Bryson City) and “Sunset Farms: In the Heart of the Smokies” (Whittier) (Note: the map in Sunset Farms was drawn by Dorothy Parris, the wife of noted WNC writer John Parris)
• Two booklets: “Waynesville the Beautiful” and “Come on Up! To Waynesville, NC” (Chamber of Commerce publication)
• Brochure: “Haywood County, In the Heart of Progressive Western North Carolina” (Waynesville Chamber of Commerce publication)
• Brochure: “Lake Lure Inn – An Alpine Setting”
• Three items: “Illustrated Folder – Hendersonville, All Year Resort,” “Hendersonville’s Pure Water” (both Chamber of Commerce publications), and “Pisgah National Forest Inn”
• Two brochures: “Pinnacle Inn – Up in the Air 4000 ft., Banner Elk, NC,” and “Historic Woodford Inn, Flat Rock, North Carolina”
• Brochure: “Nu-Way Hotel, Burnsville, North Carolina”
• Two brochures: “Buck Creek Ranch, in the heart of the Nantahala National Forest,” Rainbow Springs, North Carolina, and “Play in Cloudland this Summer: Greystone Inn,” Roaring Gap, North Carolina
• Two items: postcard booklet: “The Blowing Rock Country,” and a booklet “News from a New Summerland – 1893” (Eseeola Innn, Linville, NC).
• Four items: brochure: “Balsam Mountain Inn” (June 1999), flyer: “Balsam Mountain Inn,” booklet: “Hotel Balsam, Balsam, NC,” and a postcard “Cut Off Mtn, Balsam, NC” (1923)
• Booklet: “The Sapphire Country” (lodging near Fairfield and Sapphire lakes)
• Three items: brochure: “The Pines” vacation cabins, Asheville; postcard for Tunnel Court, Asheville; card: Lisle’s Gulf Service, Asheville
• Two booklets: “Endless Caverns,” New Market, Virginia, and “The Caesar’s Head Country, Caesar’s Head Hotel, Ceasar’s Head, South Carolina”
• Two items: “Cloudland Hotel, on top of Roan Mountain” (booklet), and 1886 Cloudland Hotel promotional card
• Two booklets: “History of Linville Resorts, Inc. and Eseeloa Lodge,” and “Linville,” promotional booklet (circa 1905-1910)
• Two pamphlets: “Hickory Nut Gorge” and “Lake Lure: In an Alpine Setting in Western North Carolina.”
• Two pamphlets: “Chimney Rock” and “The Lure: Chimney Rock”
• Three different Chimney Rock pamphlets
• Three pamphlets: “The Half Million Mark: Chimney Rock” (2 copies) and “Chimney Rock, overlooking Lake Lure.”
• Two pamphlets: “Blowing Rock, NC – The Premier Summer Resort of the Blue Ridge” (1947), “Mayview Manor, Blowing Rock, NC”
• Two items: flyer: “Lands of the Western North Carolina Land Company,” (circa 1872), and booklet: “The Legend of Pisgah and the Rat” (circa 1927)
• Various shelf cards with early photographs of Western North Carolina
• “Highlands Country Club” brochure
• “Black Mountain, North Carolina: A Good Community to Live In” brochure
• “Explore the Mountains of Your Soul at Lake Junaluska in our 65th Year” 1978
• Two items: “Views of Montreat, North Carolina” – booklet in envelope (circa 1936); and “Souvenir of Asheville, NC, in the Land of the Sky” postcard folder
• Two pamphlets: “Montreat North Carolina: Home of the Presbyterian Church, US” and “Black Mountain, North Carolina, Key City of the Mountains”
• “The World’s Work Advertiser in the Land of the Sky,” one page advertisem*nt (1901)
• Brochure: “North Carolina Historic Sites”
• Two brochures: “Come up to Highlands, North Carolina” and “Drive Up Whiteside Mountain and Look Down on the World!”
• Two brochures: “Out of Doors in the Blue Ridge (Blue Ridge Assembly circa 1930) and “Royal Pines” map and brochure, 1954)
• Brochure: “A Vacationists’ Map and Guide to Western North Carolina” (circa 1946)
• Brochures: “Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee Indian” (1956) and “Oconaluftee Indian Village – Cherokee North Carolina” (three copies)
• Flyer: “The New Direct Route from Florida to the North over Virginia-Carolina Highway”
• Boxed miniature photographs – “Waterfalls of Western North Carolina,” plus additional postcards

Binder 6: Grove Park Inn, Grove Park Inn Menus, and Biltmore Estate Items (including pen and ink drawings by William Waldo Dodge)

• Three items: Biltmore Homespun brochures (two copies), and one Grove Park Inn postcard booklet
• Four items “Grove Park Inn: Finest Resort Hotel in the World” brochure, circa 1920 (three copies), and one Grove Park Inn photo booklet
• Two items: Grove Park Inn: Floor Plans” (circa 1915), and “Scenic Motor Tours from Grove Park Inn” (circa 1915-20) (contains photographs by George Masa).
• Two brochures listing Grove Park Inn events, menus, motor tours (circa 1915) (one of the brochures contains a photograph by George Masa)
• Grove Park Inn Resort and Conference Center brochure, 1984
• Grove Park Inn – Music brochure, 1927
• Two items: “Grove Park Inn: Finest Resort Hotel in the World” booklet (circa 1927), and “Grove Park Inn: Finest Resort Hotel in the World” brochure with map, 1928
• Grove Park Inn menu, July 4, 1938
• Grove Park Inn menu, New Year’s Day, 1937
• Grove Park Inn menu, Thanksgiving, 1937
• Grove Park Inn menu, Easter, 1938
• Three items: Grove Park Inn menu, Thanksgiving, 1938, and two copies of photos of postcards depicting “The Court, Grove Park Inn”
• Two Grove Park Inn menus: dinner menu, Sunday, January 16, 1938, and “Phi Mu Dixie” Luncheon menu, July 11, 1938
• Three postcard booklets with Grove Park Inn on the cover
• Items in a package sent from Grove Park Inn to W. L. Carmichael, Atlanta
  • Letter from Grove Park Inn manager to W. L. Carmichael, Atlanta, inviting him to return to GPI. Includes personalized advertisem*nt. October 1939
  • Two GPI menus: Dinner and Luncheon, April 1939
  • Booklet: “Presenting a Preview of the Finest Hotel in the Smoky Mountain Region.”
  • Two items: a card listing American Plan rates, and a sheet for ordering from the menu
• Various Biltmore Estate items: “Biltmore Estate: Limitations and Regulations for Visitors” (3 copies), “Biltmore Plaza Recreational Center” brochure, “Biltmore House” brochure (circa 1953), “Roses Galore – Biltmore House,” “Preview of a Special Exhibit in the Library, Biltmore House,” two Biltmore House & Gardens brochures, and “George H.V. Cecil dies at 95,” article from Asheville Citizen-Times, October 24, 2020.
• Two items: “Biltmore House,” no date. Tour booklet for the house, and “Biltmore House & Gardens and Biltmore Estate,” early guide to Biltmore with photographs by George Masa, published soon after the Biltmore House opened to the public in March 1930.
• “Biltmore Estate & Biltmore Forest,” large format flyer with pen and ink sketches and a map by William Waldo Dodge. (2 copies)
• Copies of “Biltmore Estate Images”

Binder 7: Industrial/Business Promotions, Real Estate Promotions, and Asheville Street Car Line Photograph copies

• Booklet: Western North Carolina Facts, Figures, Photographs, presented by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, 1925.
• Booklet: Biltmore Dairy Farms, on the famed Biltmore Estate, including an invitation to visit the Dairy (circa 1930s)
• Pamphlet: “The Restful Charm of Country Life…in Rapidly Growing Montford Hills,” (includes plat map), 1925.
• Booklet: Western North Carolina – “A State Within a State” An Economic and Social Survey of the Eighteen Counties Comprising this Rich Empire of Industry, Resorts, Agriculture, and Mining. Compiled by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Includes single-page fact sheet. 1932.
• Booklet: The most beautiful place on Earth for your home…and the place is Beaver Lake, Asheville, North Carolina(circa 1925).
• Photographs and negatives of the Asheville Street Car line (circa 1930-32)

Binder 8: Early Lodgings: Hot Springs, Battery Park Inn, Kenilworth Inn, Victoria Inn, the Manor, and others

• Two items: A Book: Hot Springs, Past and Present, by Sally Royce Weir, 1906, and a photograph: “Mountain Park Hotel, Hot Springs, NC.” (A personal gift to the Harts from Megan Gordon of Captain’s Bookshelf)
• Two booklets: “The North Carolina Hot Mineral Springs, Season Nineteen-Fourteen,” Mountain Park Hotel, Hot Springs, and “North Carolina Hot Springs & Mountain Park Hotel: Annex and Baths,” (circa 1910)
• Three items: booklet: “The North Carolina Hot Springs and Mountain Park Hotels at Hot Springs” (circa 1925 – a gift to Bill Hart from Lisa and Bill Hart); booklet: “The North Carolina Hot Springs” (1910), and a postcard “Hot Springs, N.C., Mountain Park Hotel.” (1912)
• Three brochures for Hot Springs Spa and Hot Springs Hotel
• Three brochures: “Asheville, Land of the Sky, Accommodations, Restaurants, Attractions, Service Stations, Real Estate, 1959-1960” (Chamber of Commerce), “Asheville, Land of the Sky: Eastern America’s Most Scenic Region” (circa 1930)(includes several George Masa photographs); “Asheville-Biltmore Hotel,” (circa 1925) (includes several George Masa photographs), and “Asheville-Biltmore Hotel” (circa 1936)
• Rob Neufeld article “Asheville’s Battery Park, a historic location,” Asheville Citizen-Times, July 10, 2017
• Booklet: “Battery Park Hotel” (circa 1918) and Rob Neufeld article “Old Battery Park hotel bowed to new in 1922,” Asheville Citizen-Times, October 7, 2019
• Three items: booklet: “Battery Park Hotel” (circa 1910), Battery Park postcard, and Bob Terrell article, “Asheville Life in the Gay ’90s,” The Asheville Citizen, March 30, 1983.
• Asheville News and Hotel Report, August 17, 1895. Reference to Battery Park Hotel.
• Two booklets: The Kenilworth Inn: an hotel at Biltmore near Asheville (circa 1900) and Kenilworth Inn, Biltmore, Asheville, NC (circa 1900)
• Four items related to the Margo Terrace Hotel, Asheville : “Margo Terrace Hotel” brochure (contains a photo by George Masa) (circa 1930), and three shelf cards with photos of Margo Terrace Hotel (circa 1890)
• Pisgah Inn/Cliff Dwellers Inn brochure (circa 1930)
• Three items related to the Manor: brochure: “Motor Routes to the Land of the Sky…and to The Manor and Cottages” Asheville, NC (1930), brochure: “The Manor in America- An English Inn” (circa 1948); The Manor rate card/reservation request card
• Brochure: “The Manor, Albemarle Park, Asheville. An Exclusive Inn – Open All Year”
• Two brochures from the George Vanderbilt Hotel, Asheville (circa 1930 and 1939/40)
• “Opening Banquet, George Vanderbilt Hotel, Asheville,” July 24, 1924. Menu and dance orchestra program.
• Two brochures for the New Battery Park Hotel (circa 1925)
• Three items related to the Langren Hotel, Asheville: promotional brochure, luncheon menu (July 28, 1917), and a brief newspaper article by Rob Neufeld, Asheville Citizen-Times, October 16, 2019
• Two items: small brochure “Asheville Hotel: In the Heart of the City” (circa 1895) and an envelope from the Swannanoa Hotel, Asheville (1901)

Binder 9: Early Hospitals and Sanitoriums, Pen and Plate Club Items

• Hospitals and Sanatoriums:
  • Pamphlet: “Pioneering in a Mountain Hospital: Grace Hospital, Banner Elk, NC” (circa 1936)
  • Booklet: Norburn Hospital and Clinic, Asheville, NC (circa 1940s)
  • Booklets: Highland Hospital: Asheville, North Carolina(circa 1920s) (two copies)
  • Booklets: The Winyah Sanatorium: For the Treatment of Tuberculosis, Asheville, North Carolina(circa 1920) (two copies)
  • Pamphlet: “Beallmont Park Sanatorium on Asheville-Montreat Road, Black Mountain, North Carolina” (circa 1920s)
  • Two pamphlets: “The Background Objectives of Biltmore Hospital, Biltmore, North Carolina”: (1939) and “Southern Pines: A Winter Health Resort” (circa 1890s)
  • Two booklets: Appalachian Hall, Asheville, NC and Appalachian Hall- Asheville, NC (both circa 1930s)
  • “History of Appalachian Hall,” one page (1993)
  • Two booklets: The Winyah Sanitorium, Asheville, North Carolina – Advice to Patientsand Report of Grace Hospital, Morganton, North Carolina, 1912-13
  • Booklet: Lousie Mason Ingersoll, M.D., 1877-1962
• Pen and Plate Club and Miscellaneous
  • Book: The Pen and Plate Club of Asheville, N.C., 1904-1929
  • Booklet: Folklore of the North Carolina Mountaineers, by Haywood Parker: A Paper Read before the Pen and Plate Club, Asheville, NC, 1906 and newspaper article: “Asheville Group Celebrates is 1,100 Meeting” (Pen and Plate Club, Asheville Citizen-Times, October 20, 2000.
  • Book: The Pen and Plate Club of Asheville, N.C., 1904-1940
  • Book: The Pen and Plate Club of Asheville, N.C., 1904-1954
  • Bulletin: “Ornithology of North Carolina,” Bulletin No. 144, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, October 30, 1897. (references John S. Cairns of Buncombe County. Copy owned by Minnie C. Johnson (Pickens) of Weaverville)
  • Three items: bulletin: “Arbor and Bird Day Manual for North Carolina, 1917,” booklet: Wings, June 1932 (Literary Guild), and a ticket for the Division of Parks in Cumberland, KY

Binder 10: Western North Carolina Craft Movement & Regional Crafts

• Allanstand Cottage Industries (3 different brochures)
• Booklet: Antiques of the Future, the Artisan’s Shop, Biltmore Forest (circa 1920s)
• Booklet: The Artisan’s Shop, Biltmore Forest
• Booklet: Handmade Furniture and Wood Carvings, The Artisan’s Shop, Asheville, NC (includes letter from Amanda Stewart and response by Bill Hart)
• Booklet: From Mountain Hands: The Story of Allanstand Craft Shop’s First 100 years (1995)
• Pamphlet: “Weaving Department, Crossnore School”
• Booklet: Biltmore Homespun (with a blue wool woven cover, 1930)
• Pamphlet: “Biltmore Industries: Making Handwoven Homespun for Over Forty Years”
• Pamphlet: “Native Arts and Crafts in the Land of the Sky,” Grove Park Inn (circa 1928)
• Copy of Mountain Life & Work, No. 3, 1951 “Highland Highlights of the Southern Craft Guild”
• Brochure: “1998 Folk Art Center Programs, Southern Highland Craft Guild”
• Seven different brochures: Biltmore Country Market, Southern Appalachian Studies Craft Shop, John C. Campbell Folk School (2), Folk Art Center, Pigeon Forge Pottery, The Spinning Wheel

Binder 11: Gifford Pinchot, Cradle of Forestry, and Forestry Related Items

• Book: Biltmore Forest: An Account of its Treatment, and the Results of the First Year’s Work, by Gifford Pinchot (1893) (this is the first report of Biltmore Estate forestry management)
• Book: A Primer of Forestry, Part I – The Forest, by Gifford Pinchot, Bulletin 24:Divsion of Forestry, US Dept. Of Agriculture (1903)
• Book: A Primer of Forestry, Part II – Practical Forestry, by Gifford Pinchot, Bulletin 24:Divsion of Forestry, US Dept. Of Agriculture (1905)
• Bulletin: A Primer of Forestry, by Gifford Pinchot. Farmer’s Bulletin No. 173, US Department of Agriculture, 1903
• 1950 Alumni Reunion of Biltmore Forest School: pamphlet “Flowers for the Living, Reunion of the Biltmore Forest School” (1950), booklet: “Songs of the Foresters,” schedule for reunion event, May 1950, and a photo of Carl Shenck
• “Flowers for the Living and Trees for the Great” – 1953 booklets associated with the dedication of the Frederick Law Olmstead Grove
• Photographs: members of the Biltmore School of Forestry taken at the dedication of the Biltmore Forest School schoolhouse replica (1966) and a photograph of the dedication
• Two items: booklet: “Rages or Riches: A Hint for Silviculture,” by G.A. Schulze, Biltmore Forest School, 1909, and a pamphlet “Dedication of the Forest Festival Trail, Cradle of Forestry in America, July 30, 1983.
• Biltmore Forest School photograph collection: copies of 17 photos once owned by Carl Schulze (see note in binder and identifications on backs of photos)
• Booklet: “Our Least Known Great American,” by Owen Gudger. A short essay about George Vanderbilt (circa 1958). (Note: Gudger was a judge, newspaperman, historian, and Asheville postmaster, 1913-21.
• Article: “The Cradle of Forestry in America,” by Harley E. Jolley (reprinted from American Forests) 2 copies
• Article: “Biltmore Forest Fair, 1908” by Harley Jolley, in Forest History, Vol. 14, No. 1. April 1970.
• Booklet: This Was Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913. By F. H. Tainter and B.M. Cool
• Ten brochures from the Cradle of Forestry
• Four newspaper articles: “The Father of Forestry,” by Bob Terrell, Asheville Citizen-Times, Feb. 1, 1976, “WNC Forest are the Great Legacy of 100 Years of Forestry Education,” (author not identified), Asheville Citizen-Times, July 6, 1988, “National Forest Conservation began 79 Years Ago,” by John Parris, Asheville Citizen-Times, October, 1995, and “Father of Forestry,” a picture of Carl Schenck, Asheville Citizen-Times, December 17, 1989.

Binder 12: Mount Mitchell Historical Publications and Promotions

• Directions to Halfway House, an overnight stopping point for early hikers to Mount Mitchell. Directions given to Bill Hart by John Buckner in 1997.
• Miscellaneous items: 3 Mount Mitchell postcards, “Mount Mitchell State Park” informational brochure (2005), “Mount Mitchell State Park” informational brochure (undated), “Mount Mitchell Historic Photo Collection with Twelve Prints,” purchased at Mt. Michell in 2000
• Booklet:Mount Mitchell and Dr. Elisha Mitchell,by Chas. A. Webb, published by Asheville-Citizen Times Company (1946)
• Technical Bulletin No. 250: Timber Growing and Logging Practice in the Southern Appalachian Region, by E.H. Frothingham. US Department of Agriculture (1931) (includes a George Masa photo next to page 9)
• Booklet:Camping on Mount Mitchell: Information Regarding Places for Summer Camps in United States Forests in North Carolina,issued by the Southern Railway (1916)
• Booklet: Floreen, or the Story of Mitchell, by G. W. Belk (1916)
• Diary of a Geological Tour by Dr. Elisha Mitchell in 1827 and 1828, with an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Kemp P. Battle, LL.D, James Sprunt Historical Monograph No. 6 (1905)
• Booklet: Mitchell’s Peak and Dr. Mitchell, by Locke Craig, Governor of North Carolina (1915)
• A Memoir of the Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D.D., Late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in the University of North Carolina (1858)
• “Measurements of the Black Mountain,” Letter of T. L. Clingman (1856) (segment from a larger document)
• Pamphlet: “The Story of Mt. Mitchell,” compiled by Wm. A. Barnhill (note: William E. Barnhill (1899-1987) was a photographer who operated Barnhill Studios in Asheville, who was active in WNC from 1914-1922)
• Pamphlet: “Mt. Mitchell: A Motor Trip Sublime” (two copies) (at least one photo is by George Masa)
• Miniature souvenir postcard folder: “Mount Mitchell: Altitude 6711 feet, Highest Peak East of the Rocky Mountains, in ‘the Land of the Sky,” North Carolina” (circa 1918)
• Pamphlet: “Top of Eastern America: Mt. Mitchell Railroad, a Scenic Marvel Presenting a Peerless Panorama of Mountain Magnificence,” includes a map of the railroad and photos.
• Postcard folder: “Souvenir Folder of Mt. Mitchell and Mt. Pisgah, Western North Carolina. America’s Beauty Spot”
• “Elisha Mitchell and Mount Mitchell,” by D. Hiden Ramsey, and “Elisah Mitchell: Scientist and Man,” by Archibald Henderson. Both articles are reprints from Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 73, No. 23, November 1957.
• Nancy Brown’s gift of Shelf Cards: Nancy Brown, owner of the Book Mart and a close friend of the Harts. These card were collected by Nancy Brown’s father, a traveling hardware salesman in Eastern Tennessee, during his travels in the 1890s.
  • “Mitchell’s Grave” (the man standing by the grave is probably Tom Wilson)
  • “Mitchell Falls”
  • “Round Knob and Vicinity: R.R. at 17 Points”
  • View from Satullah (Satullah Mountain is near Highlands, NC)
  • Glen Falls
  • Cullasagee Falls
• “Black Dome Revisited – 1907,” by Mary Hattan Bogart (photocopy of article from Our State, August 1985)
• “Tar Heel Memories: Ranger Recollections,” by John R. Friday (from Our State, August 1994)
• Various newspaper articles:
  • “Historic Mt. Mitchell fitting monument for its explorer,” by Mary H. Bogart (Johnson City Press, Dec. 8, 1985)
  • “Mount Mitchell: State’s first part growing, poised for future,” by Karen Chavez (Asheville Citizen-Times, August 26, 2016)
  • “Mount Mitchell hit with Record Snowfall,” by Dale Neal (Asheville Citizen-Times, Jan. 25, 2016)
  • “Mount Mitchell tower to be torn down,” by Julie Bell (Asheville Citizen-Times, July 20, 2006)
  • “Peak to get Platform,” by Karen Chavez (Asheville Citizen-Times, Sept. 14, 2006)
  • “Beaver Lake traces its history to deaths, financial ruin,” by Rob Nuefeld (Asheville Citizen-Times, circa 2006)
  • “Mount Mitchell is ‘granddaddy’ of regions’ tall peaks,” by John Parris (Asheville Citizen-Times, July 11, 1992)
  • “From atop Mount Mitchell…’On every height there lies repose.'” by John Parris (Asheville Citizen-Times, June 29, 1992)

Binder 13: Miscellaneous Western North Carolina materials

• “Camp Sequoyah: ‘A Real Camp for Real Boys,’ Asheville, North Carolina. Eighth Season, June 30-August 25, 1931.” Camp promotional book
• “Camp Sequoyah: ‘A Camp with a Purpose,’ 35th Season – 1958,” Camp promotional book. Also includes:
  • “What is camping? An interpretation,” by C. Walton Johnson, Director, Camp Sequoyah
• “Camp Sequoyah, Weaverville, North Carolina: ‘A Camp with a Purpose.’ Forty-fourth Season, 1967” Camp promotional book.
• Camp Sequoyah literature by C. Walton Johnson, Camp Founder:
  • “The Unique Mission of the Summer Camp”
  • “A Philosophy of Camping”
  • “Leadership Personnel: Camp Sequoyah”
  • “What is Camping?”
  • “Your Son”
• “General Plan of Biltmore Forest,” includes map and property price list (circa 1920-21) 2 copies

Oversize Box 1:

• The Story of Biltmore Forest, with a foreword by D. Hiden Ramsey. Privately printed, limited to 2000 copies. 1925. (book)
• “The Mountaineer”, August 31, 1934 (photo of Mt.LeConte on page 14 by George Masa)
• “Vacation Days in Western North Carolina – October 1914,” by Ruth Wilmarth Webb and Max Bell Web. Contains excerpts from a 1914 diary. Privately printed. Describes a journey through to Fontana, Bryson City, and Asheville and features photographs.
• Asheville City Plan, by John Nolen, 1922. Envelope also includes an article: “John Nolen: Racism and City Planning,” by R. Bruce Stephenson, View: The Magazine of the Library of American Landscape History, Summer 2015, No. 15
• With Pen and Camera thro’ “The Land of the Sky:” Western North Carolina and The Asheville Plateau, by Holman D. Waldron (1902)
• The Paper Maker, Vol. 33, No. 2, 1934. (includes article on Carl Alwin Schenck)
• The Biltmore Immortals: Biographies of 50 American Boys Graduating from the Biltmore Forest School, 1953. Signed by C. A. Schenck
• Trees for the Great: Honoring Carl Elwin Schenck. Signed by C.A. Shenck
• Appalachian Hall, Asheville, NC. Booklet. Contains George Masa photographs