Front entrance of library showing name George Willis Pack memorial Library above second floor windows. Automobiles parked in front of library, photo taken at 5:50 PM.
Site of Pack Place Education Arts & Science Center designed by New York library architect Edward Tilton encompasing a Second Renaissance Revival style.
Carnegie Public Library ; Hendersonville Public Library ; Libraries
Exterior view of Hendersonville Public Library with man standing in front of doorway holding a book. Brick building with Doric columns either side of door.
Exterior of Asheville Public Library. The second location of the Asheville Public Library, above DeVault (C.W.)'s Drugstore on Main Street (Biltmore Avenue. Sign above DeVault's reads Reading Room and Public Library. Duplicate of C751-8.
Interior view showing patrons at tables in the Sondley Reference Library on the 2nd floor, east side of the 1926 Pack Memorial Library. Sondley Library is a collection of 34,000 volumes and items that were willed to the city by Dr. Foster Alexander...
Keyword: Architecture ; Asheville Buncombe Library System ; UNC Asheville ; Sondley Collection ; Tree and Greenway Commission ; Quality Forward ; Six Associates
LCSH:
Lord, Anthony (Tony), 1900-1993
Asheville (N.C.) -- History
Libraries and...
Abstract: Anthony Lord describes his career as an architect in Asheville. He also discusses his involvement with the Asheville-Buncombe Library System Board of Trustees, which began with his appointment in 1945. He describes the old Pack Memorial...
Pack Memorial Library (1926). Photo dated October 1964, which was two years after all parts of the library system were opened to all races. See A848 for more information about the library.
Photo of Street scene looking west at West Asheville Branch Library at #942 Haywood Road, West Asheville. Mountains are in View and the sign for the West Asheville Baptist Church. Photo taken 5/2000 by Zoe Rhine for library photo documentation.
Photo of Street scene looking west from West Asheville Branch Library at 942 Haywood Road, West Asheville. Library is not in View, but businesses on other side of Street are. Photo taken 5/2000 by Zoe Rhine for library photo documentation.
Street Scenes ; Libraries ; Stores ; Castenea Building ; Pack Memorial Public Library
Front exterior of the Castenea Building. Pack Memorial Library to the left of the Castenea Building. Restoration of ornament on Castenea Building is evident. Cars parked on Street.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs
Interviews with members of the Sandy Mush community in Leicester, North Carolina about growing up in the region, tobacco farming, cultural continuity, and protesting the designation of Sandy Mush as a possible nuclear waste dump. Collection...
Asheville businesses ; Downtown Asheville ; Hyman Dave ; Esther Ruth Fox ; Betty Pollock Golden ; Stan Golden ; Miriam Kell ; Ginger Grand Lerner ; Milton Lurey ; Harry Mamlin ; Mary Lee Mamlin ; Trudy Packard ; Marilyn Blomberg Patton ; George...
Jewish Businesses in Western North Carolina was a project derived from the ingenuity of the organization History @ Hand, whose research into the history of Jewish families in western North Carolina has enriched the cultural awareness of Jewish life...
