Festive holiday greetings from Special Collections! We've dug into some of our collections to find some Christmas images to share.
The first image comes from the
Wilma Dykeman Collection, and shows a young Wilma Dykeman and her father bringing home the family Christmas tree in 1929. The photo is from her brother Jerome's scrapbook.
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| Wilma Dykeman and her father, 1929. |
Several photos come from the
E.M. Ball Collection, including this photo of the Christmas decorations in front of the Ivey's department store in downtown Asheville. The photo dates from 1960.
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| Downtown Asheville in Christmas regalia, 1960. |
The next photo comes from the
Massie Collection of Jesse Morris Photographs, which documents the Oteen Hospital in east Asheville during and immediately after World War I . This photo shows Christmas decorations in the hospital in 1920.
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| Oteen Hospital, 1920 |
The Ball Collection contains many photos that Ball took while working as a professional photographer, including a number of photos taken in private homes in and around Asheville during the Christmas season. This is an example:
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| Christmas tree in a private home in Asheville, circa late 1940s. |
The
Annie Rives Nicholson Collection contains a scrapbook assembled by Nicholson during her teenage years in the early 1930s when she was a student in South Carolina.
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| Christmas Hop dance card, c. 1931, possibly from Clemson University |
The final photo is from the Ball Collection and dates from 1948, showing a Christmas party at Leath House, a boarding house on Grove Street in Ashevile.
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| Christmas party at Leath House |
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