The company and label was known for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop, gospel, jazz, and rock and roll releases. Bess Berman, one of the few women executives in the recording industry, ran Apollo Records from 1948 until it closed in 1962. The Apollo Records Collection consists of master lacquer disc audio recordings, 1943-1958, affiliated with Apollo Records, a record company and label founded in New York City in 1944. Photographic slides include images of interior and exterior shots of the Penland School, portraits of weavers, slides of crafts, and slides of historic Penland photographs. Documents include pamphlets on the history of weaving in the Southern Highlands and other materials. Audiocassettes contain oral history interviews with weavers, their friends and relatives, and other people connected with the early years of the Penland School. Materials include audio cassettes, documents, and photographic slides, most developed by Alvic with grant support from the North Carolina Arts Council and the North Carolina Humanities Council. the beginnings of the Penland School of Crafts (formerly Penland School of Handicrafts) and the weaving room at Crossnore School, Inc., in Crossnore, N.C. The collection consists of documentation of early weaving in the Southern Highlands in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and around Penland, N.C. Her textiles have been shown at more than 100 exhibits throughout the United States. She weaves wall hangings using complex weave structures. Philis Alvic is an artist/weaver and writer who maintains a studio in Lexington, Ky. Johnnie Simmons, Vollis Simpson, William Thomas Thompson, Della Wells, and LaVon Williams. Samuels, Cher Shaffer, Gabriel Shaffer, Rev. Cromer, John 'Johnnie' Culver, Eric Cunningham, Bruce Davenport, Brian Dowdall, Winton and Rosa Eugene, Sam Ezell, Patti Fenick, Theresa Gloster, Edna Hackett, Eddie Hamrick, Eddie Hayes, Chris Hubbard, Clyde Jones, Stacy Lambert, Paul Lancaster, Arbon Lane, Jr., Eric Legge, Juanita Leonard, Tim Lewis, Peter Loose, Denny Maloney, Sam 'The Dot Man' McMillan, Kessiah Freeman Meroney, Roy Minshew, Bruce New, Ashley Pierce, Sarah Rakes, Joe Reinhardt, Kathy Richards, Harold Rittenberry, Robert Roberg, O. Artists featured in the collection include: Ab the Flagman (Roger Lee Ivens), Minnie Adkins, John 'Cornbread' Anderson, Michael Brien, Tammy Leigh Brooks, Benny Carter, Neolia 'Nell' Cole, J.

Materials document African American and white artists from Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Videos were recorded digitally by the Allens over a 10- to 15-year period. Margaret Day Allen authored When the Spirit Speaks: Self-Taught Art of the South. Video interviews, photographs, articles, and book chapters about self-taught/folk artists created by Margaret Day Allen and Robert John Allen, former members of the Folk Art Society of America's National Advisory Board and past presidents of the North Carolina Folk Art Society.

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