William A. Barnhill (November 26, 1889 – December 7, 1987) was an American photographer best known for his work in the
Appalachian Mountains of western
North Carolina in the early 1900s. His love of hiking and
photography took him to the mountains of western North Carolina between 1914 and 1917. The photographs he took during those trips have been featured in American Heritage and Life magazines, as well as in the collections of the
Library of Congress,[1] the
New York Public Library, the
Pack Memorial Public Library of
Asheville, North Carolina, and various college libraries.
During
World War I, as a
Lieutenant in the US Army he commanded a photographic section in the
91st Aero Squadron.[2]
Some of his photographs from the war were used in the New York Times during the war.
He worked as a commercial photographer in Asheville and
Cleveland after the war.
New York Public Library - Romana Javitz Collection MFZ (Barnhill) 93-6189; Views of pottery making and sorghum molasses making, ca. 1900s, in North Carolina, cityscapes of Cleveland, Ohio and landscapes of a covered bridge near Mechanicsville, Ohio, ca. 1930s, and landscapes of the Delaware & Raritan Canal in Pennsylvania, ca. 1910. [graphic]