Related Resources

This section provides pointers to collections that have related or similar content to the Barnhill Collection.

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Prints & Photographs Division Materials

Specific Subject File search for Mountain People
Digitized items from a file of photographs available for browsing in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. Not all items from this file are digitized.
Detroit Publishing Company search for Asheville
The Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes photographs of Asheville and the surrounding area.
Search results for Doris Ulmann
The photographic work of Doris Ulmann includes many images taken in Appalachia in the states of Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Not all of Ulmann's images in the collections have been digitized.

Materials in Other Divisions

American Folklife Center
The American Folklife Center's collections include extensive audiovisual documentation of traditional arts, cultural expressions, and oral histories, offer researchers access to the songs, stories, and other creative expressions of people from diverse communities.

Many public institutions hold William Barnhill photographs. The listings below suggests institutions or resources with Barnhill holdings.

Appalachia a Century Ago External
The Southern Appalachian Archives at Mars Hill University has an online presentation titled Appalachia a Century Ago Craft through the Lens of William A. Barnhill. The presentation includes a biography of Barnhill and many digitized images.
Byways of Cleveland External
The Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection includes an album titled Byways of Cleveland. It features over 60 photographs of Cleveland taken by William Barnhill in the 1930's.

These resources may assist in researching and exploring the context of the images found in the Barnhill Collection or provide information on the photographer.

American Heritage
Call Number: E171.A43
A number of Barnhill's photographs are featured in Richard M. Ketchum's article, "Appalachia 1914," in American Heritage, v. 20 (February 1969), pp. 26-41, 85 [P&P call number: E171.A43].
Photographers in North Carolina by Stephen E. Massengill
Call Number: TR139 .M287 2004
ISBN: 0865263116
Published/Created: 2004-01-01

Barnhill Photographs of Life in Western North Carolina, 1914-1917 (Library of Congress)

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Related Resources

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Prints & Photographs Division Materials

Materials in Other Divisions