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  • Collection: Travel Western North Carolina

A typed caption on this photograph identifies it as 'On Balsam Divide looking towards Black Rock Knob.' The photograph is featured in a report titled 'Properties of Dr. John R. Brinkley,' which contains a letter of transmittal from Ellis Clarke…

The Ruralite (Sylva, N.C.) reported on improvements in the operation of the Dillsboro and Sylva Electric Company in its January 13, 1931, issue in an article titled 'Electric Company Installs Some New Machinery.'� C.J. Harris, a prominent Jackson…

This late 1920s brochure for Waynesville, N.C., compiled by the Waynesville Chamber of Commerce, featured 'Hotels, Apartments, and Inns -- A List of Accommodations'� (Waynesville, N.C.: The Haywood Print Shop). As in the heyday of the railway, the…

This late 1920s brochure for Waynesville, N.C., compiled by the Waynesville Chamber of Commerce, featured 'Hotels, Apartments, and Inns -- A List of Accommodations'� (Waynesville, N.C.: The Haywood Print Shop). As in the heyday of the railway, the…

This page from the late 1920s brochure for the 'Hotel Gordon'� has a line-drawing illustration of the hotel, which was located in Waynesville, North Carolina. Automobiles are shown in the drawing parked in front of the hotel and the brochure notes…

The travel brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians'� (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, August 1923) featured three pictures on page 17 with the captions 'East Entrance, Pisgah National Forest…

This view captioned the 'Fontana Dam site'� from the report by the Tennessee Valley Authority, 'The Fontana Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Fontana Project'� (Washington: United…

The travel brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians'� (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, August 1923), featured on page 16 three images under the general heading 'Pisgah National Forest and Game…

This tri-fold brochure entitled 'The National Forests of the Southern Appalachians: What They Mean to the East and South' was issued by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (Washington, D.C., August 1923). The left…

This photograph of the Smoky Mountain Power Plant at Ela, North Carolina, near Bryson City, N.C., by R.A. Romanes (1896-1978) was dated October 18, 1937. The dam, which is on the Oconaluftee River near its confluence with the Tuckasegee River, was…
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