[Interior of Olive Dame Campbell's House, Brasstown, North Carolina]

1933–1934

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

20.3 × 15.2 cm

Status

In Museum Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-784215

In the last two years of her life, Doris Ulmann became well acquainted with Olive Dame Campbell (1882-1954), an industrious New Englander who had traveled many miles in the Appalachian Mountains while surveying the culture with her husband for the Russell Sage Foundation. Campbell put part of her energy into collecting ballads in the Southern Highlands and later, after her husband's death, opened a school (based on a Scandinavian model for rural education) in Cherokee County, North Carolina. She would direct the John C. Campbell Folk School for twenty years, following a tradition already well established by such women as May Stone of the Hindman Settlement School and Katherine Pettit of the Pine Mountain School. Ulmann also photographed at these two manual arts centers in Kentucky, but she used Campbell's school at Brasstown as her base of operations several times while creating illustrations for Allen Eaton’s *Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands* (1937) ([https://primo.getty.edu](https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=GETTY_ALMA21140498420001551&context=L&vid=GRI&lang=en_US&search_scope=COMBINED&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=all_gri&query=any,contains,all…