Collection Principles:
The Craft Revival project is the virtual collection of documents, photographs, oral histories, craft objects, and artifacts that tell the story of the craft revival that took place in western North Carolina from 1895 to 1945. This virtual collection consists of digital surrogates in a database, maintained by Western Carolina University's Hunter Library. The original materials used to produce the digital images for this virtual collection are owned and housed by seven institutions that make up this virtual collection. The guides for each of the partner institutions give general information about each institution, general information about their collections, and specific information about the collections.
Object Characteristics:
Just some of the objects that make up this virtual collection include:
- tools that were used on the objects
- Photographs not only of the time period but that depicts the craft being performed or explained, or a specific craft item
- personal papers of educators, crafts persons, businesses (related to the sale of craft items)
- the craft items themselves
- oral histories of the people and the area
- specific time period 1890-1945
Metadata:
Funding comes from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
The metadata is Content DM and there is a pretty good amount of information. The images are large and clear, the user is able to enlarge the images (somewhat).
Audience:
It is such a wide yet specific collection that anyone can find interest in it. Anyone interested in the local area, craft revival and history, and perhaps researchers interested in specific crafts of that time period. There is a link designed for "Lesson Plans" for K-12 for educators to design lesson plans and introduce students to the area and subject matter.
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