Clyde Adkins in Deep Gap, North Carolina, near Boone, with his ox team and cart. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est. 1924) and a charter member of the Great Smoky Mountains…
Clyde Adkins in Deep Gap, North Carolina, near Boone, with his ox team and cart. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est. 1924) and a charter member of the Great Smoky Mountains…
This photograph of a farmer with a plow was taken around 1920 in Cades Cove. The back of the photograph is labeled Dr. Randolph Shields, but it is not known if Shields was the photographer. Most likely, Shields collected these photographs.
James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) was a noted photographer, hiker, and outdoor enthusiast who played a major role in promoting a national park in the Southern Appalachians. In the 1920s, up to the park’s dedication in 1940, Thompson was often…
A Coca-Cola bottle is being used as an insulator on an overhead electric wire at the Riverside Hotel in Gatlinburg. The bottle was installed by C.M. Leeman, National Park Service landscape architect. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978),…
Thunderhead from Park Service fire road near Schoolhouse Gap in Scott Mountain. The sharp point near left end is the point on Defeat Ridge. Little Bald is behind the pine tree. Col. David C. Chapman and Mrs. Lida M. Ross are in the left foreground.…
Col. David C. Chapman is standing on Spence Field. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est. 1924) and a charter member of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association (est.…
This view from Collins Gap, along with other photographs of the Great Smoky Mountains, were donated to the park by Mary Clements Decker and John Hazard Decker.
This view of North Carolina from Collins Gap, along with other photographs of the Great Smoky Mountains, were donated to the park by Mary Clements Decker and John Hazard Decker.
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…