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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Doris Ulmann Photographs #P0099, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired by the North Carolina Collection in January 2005 (Acc. 31211-31214)

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Processed by: Anne Harding, March 2015

Encoded by: Anne Harding, March 2015

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Buncombe County (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Clay County (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Folk dancing--Appalachian Region--Photographs.
• John C. Campbell Folk School--Photographs.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Photographs.
• Ulmann, Doris, 1882-1934
• Women photographers--United States--Photographs.

Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was a "pictorialist" photographer based in New York City, N.Y., renowned for her portraits of both prominent figures in New York City and of people from the rural South. Ulmann attended the teacher training program at Felix Adler's Ethical Culture School, and enrolled in psychology, law, and photography classes at Columbia University prior to graduating from the Clarence H. White School of Photography all located in New York, N.Y. In 1914, Ulmann married physician and amateur "pictorialist" photographer Dr. Charles C. Jaeger; they were divorced in the early 1920s. Having established herself as a portrait photographer in New York City, she increasingly turned her attention to photographing rural southerners and members of Appalachian mountain communities, to whom she referred affectionately as her "mountaineers." In 1929, Ulmann began her collaboration with Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Julia Peterkin on the widely-acclaimed Roll, Jordan, Roll, a book documenting African American folk culture in South Carolina's Gullah coastal region. Ulmann continued photographing rural communities until her death in 1934.

This collection contains five black-and-white photographic prints reflecting Ulmann's interest in Appalachian communities, including a photograph of a spring house in Peachtree, N.C., and two portraits of residents of South Turkey Creek, N.C.. Also included are two images taken at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which acted as Ulmann's headquarters during her work taking illustrative photographs for Allen Eaton's Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, which was published after Ulmann's death in 1937.