Long-spiked tapers of the black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) which usually stand erect, but here they are leaning out horizontally toward a spot where better light is available. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member…
These black and white photographs depict botanical specimens such as bugbane and scenery of the Great Smoky Mountains and are attributed to B.W. Wells. Bertram Whittier Wells (1884-1978) was a distinguished professor of botany at North Carolina…
This is a photograph of the 6,684 ft. high Black Dome renamed Mount Mitchell after Professor Elisha Mitchell who identified it as the highest peak in eastern United States. The photograph is part of a collection documenting the activities of the…
This pen-and-ink drawing is of black gum tree bark. The drawing is signed and dated in pencil and labeled: “Bullhead Trail.” Irving Rhodes Fromer (1913-1994) was a self-taught artist who was employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the…
Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great…
Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great…
Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great…
Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great…
Little is known about J.D. Chaffin, the artist who made these drawings. Most likely, Chaffin was an enrollee in one of the 22 CCC camps in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Almost all of the pen-and-ink sketches in this series are of flora and…
On the reverse of this image is written, "Blanket Mountain in center background Silers Bald to left as seen from Cove Mtn. Sept. 14, 1930." The picture is in the collection of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club, an organization that formed after a group…