Collection of Collections is the main access list to manuscripts, photographs, drawings, books and booklets, periodicals, maps and oral histories held or digitally administered by D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Collection of Collections also briefly describes the large Web …
This is a growing collection of travel and tourism literature, early books about western North Carolina, and small promotional booklets advertising key monuments associated with western North Carolina. The books, booklets, pamphlets, and ephemera cover many of western North Carolina's most scenic points of interest and often …
The Documents Collection includes letters of correspondence, deeds, legal agreements, financial agreements, charters, narrative histories, newspaper clippings, and a variety of other genres that are used to document events, people, and places. Most of the documents in this small collection pertain to Ashevilles Built Environment (ABE), …
The majority of architectural drawings in this collection are those shared by the Asheville Art Museum. They are part of a collaborative grant project called "Ashevilles Built Environment" and represent mainly the work of Richard Sharp Smith and Albert Heath Carrier. The "Ashevilles Built Environment" (ABE) project was supported by a …
Forestry is an integral part of the identity of western North Carolina. The science of forestry in the United States was born in the Cradle of Forestry following the initation of forest management and experimentation in the Biltmore Forest School begun by George W. Vanderbilt on his estate in western North Carolina. This collection, …
D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections oral histories contain a wealth of local history and cultural information about Asheville and the western North Carolina region. The Southern Highlands Research Center Oral History Collection and the Voices of Asheville Project, created by Dorothy Joynes, are the two largest bodies of …
Photographs constitute the largest genre of material in the Western North Carolina Heritage site. Currently some 5000 photographs of the 150,000 in our repository are available on this site. Many more photographs are found throughout our Special Collections Photo Collections pages. Almost all the available images represent Asheville and …
Digital collections do not create themselves. They are assembled by people who make decisions, who describe, who catalog, who scan, and who spend many hours organizing information so it may be used by a variety of interested users. The collected work on these pages is here because of the hard work of collaborating institutions, staff, students, volunteers, and interns. We thank them all.
Asheville Art Museum
Asheville Buncombe County Library System
Asheville City Schools System
Asheville Historic Resources Commission
Asheville YWCA
Beth Ha Tephila Congregation
Black Mt. College Museum + Arts Center
Blue Ridge Parkway
Carolina Mountain Club
Center for Diversity Education
Congregation Beth Israel
French Broad River Garden Club
Housing Authority - City of Asheville
Mountain Dance & Folk Festival & Shindig
Mt. Hermon Lodge
National Forests in North Carolina
Unitarian Universalist, Asheville
Western North Carolina Historical Association
WNC - American Association of University Women
YMI Cultural Center