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Tryon Craft School, Tryon, N.C.
No full textThis sales brochure describes puppets and other products created by students at the Tryon Craft School in Tryon, North Carolina in the late 1930s. The Tryon Craft School was established in 1935 as a workshop for children led by Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale. The brochure describes the puppet theater made and sold by the school. The characters were created to tell three different nursery stories. The last page lists other items made at the school
Tryon Craft School
No full textThis promotional brochure advertises the Tryon Craft School, started by Charlotte Yale and Eleanor Vance in 1936. Yale and Vance began their craft teaching in Asheville, North Carolina with the Biltmore Estate Industries in 1901, and their move to Tryon, N.C. in 1915 where they established the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers. Here they instructed young people in woodworking and used the sales of toys and other decorative pieces to support the business for over twenty years. The business was transferred to new owners in 1936 when Yale and Vance began a new enterprise with the Tryon Craft School
Land Grant Application- Tryon, William (Deerfield)
No full textLand grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office for William Tryon for service in the Revolutionary War.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_mass/1359/thumbnail.jp
Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers: A Craft School
No full textThis leaflet provides a brief overview of work done by Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale with the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers. The women began their craft teaching in Asheville, North Carolina with the Biltmore Estate Industries in 1901, and their move to Tryon, N.C. in 1915 where they established the Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers. Here they instructed young people in woodworking and used the sales of toys and other decorative pieces to support the business for over twenty years. The business was transferred to new owners in 1935 when Yale and Vance began a new enterprise with the Tryon Craft School. A fire in 1939 destroyed the Tryon Toy Makers and the name was returned to Yale and Vance
Ike Tryon
No full textIke Tryon lived in California. He was the uncle of Amelia Yeager. Photo is located on page 319 of the Jensen Utah Book
Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers
No full textThis is an early booklet, telling the story of the work done by Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale. It describes their background in arts and crafts work, their arrival in Asheville, North Carolina to work with the Biltmore Estate Industries in 1901, and their move to Tryon, N.C. in 1915 where they established the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers. Here they instructed young people in woodworking and used the sales of toys and other decorative pieces to support the business. The booklet describes item available for order and displays the shop insignia: two galax leaves above a toy tree
Basket weaver of Blue Ridge Weavers, Tryon, N.C.
No full textThis photographic postcard depicts a woman in a rustic cabin working the edging on a decorative basket. This postcard was produced by the Blue Ridge Weavers most likely for tourists visiting the region around the 1920s. Blue Ridge Weavers was founded between 1914 and 1922 in Tryon, North Carolina as both a craft production center and a retail shop for mountain arts and crafts
Tryon Toy Makers and Weavers
No full textPictured here is the home of Eleanor P. Vance (1869-1954) and Charlotte L. Yale (1870-1958) who moved to Tryon in 1915 to open the Tryon Toy Makers Shop. From 1915 to 1922 toys were marked “Tryon Toy Makers and Weavers,” and after 1922 marked “Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers.” The entrance to the work room of the Tryon Toy Makers and Weavers is on the far right. This image was printed by Lollar's in Birmingham, Alabama
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