George Masa Collection, 1915-1934

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George Masa Collection, 1915-1934

1915-1934

https://wcu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/17

The George Masa collection is divided into the following groups: photographs and photo-albums, postcards, newspaper clipping notebooks, and books. The major grouping is the newspaper clipping notebooks, mainly taken from the Asheville Citizen during Masa's Asheville period. These notebooks concern the Cherokee Indians, lumbering, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and western North Carolina themes. The photographs are of western North Carolina scenes, including a Mt. Mitchell photo-album and a mountain scenes notebook. There are also a number of group photographs that include Masa as well as a 1933 aerial photo of Asheville. Several pocket sized notebooks perhaps contain a trail of photograph references.

6.25 linear feet

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Western Carolina University, Hunter Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11648600

Western Carolina University, Hunter Library

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Masa, George, 1881-1933

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George Masa was born in Japan in 1881. There is little information about George Masa's life prior to his arrival in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1915. It is known that he was a native of Japan and had been a mining engineer student prior to his immigration. After Masa came to the United States, he Americanized his name -- Masabara Izuka -- to George Masa. In Asheville he found work as a valet at the Grove Park Inn. Later he opened a photographic studio, the Asheville Photo Service. Masa w...