Study for the Preservation of Mountain Culture: photographs and letter

Study for the Preservation of Mountain Culture: photographs and letter

Barns

Distillation apparatus

Dwellings

Industries

Log cabins

Tanning

This series of 26 photographs affixed to 19 sheets accompanies a letter from J. R. Eakin, Superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the director of the National Park Service. The photographs cover a variety of activities and places, including distilling alcohol, riving boards, milling, and tanning leather. The photographs include family home places of Miles Messer and Kate Lawson in Cades Cove, and Joe Queen and Ephraim Bumgarner in Deep Creek. Many of these photographs were used in a report titled, “Study for the Preservation of Mountain Culture.” Charles S. Grossman (1900-1972) created an inventory of structures in the park, cataloguing more than 1,500 structures. Photographer Edouard E. Exline, who signed his work “E.E.E.,” sometimes accompanied Grossman in his work. J. Ross Eakin (1879-1946) was the first superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, holding that post from 1931 until 1945.

Eakin, J. Ross, 1879-1946

Exline, Edouard E., 1905-1960

Grossman, Charles S., 1900-1972

Charles Grossman Papers

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

1937-10-25

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2013-11-06

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

Appalachian Region, Southern

10.5" x 8"(dimension)

20 pages(pages)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America