Best Loved Scenes in the Smokies

Best Loved Scenes in the Smokies

Bears

Botany

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Landscapes

Log cabins

Roads -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Waterfalls -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Mountain plants

Plants

Rivers -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

The 24-page “Best Loved Scenes in the Smokies” was published in 1955 as a guidebook describing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Each page has several black and white photographs of notable sites that are titled and described. The booklet is both a guidebook and a promotional piece for the “Thompsons,” referring to Knoxville photographers Jim and Robin Thompson. A page at the back of the book indicates that prints are available for sale. James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) and brother, Robin Thompson (1895-1977) were both photographers. In the 1920s they were partners in Thompson Brothers Commercial Photography, a firm started by their father in 1902. In 1927, the brothers went their separate ways, each taking on various photographic interests.

Thompson Brothers Commercial Photographers

Jim Thompson Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1955

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publications (documents)

eng

Text

17487

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2013-02-20

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Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

24 pages(pages)

8.5" x 11"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America