Railroad through the mountains

Railroad through the mountains

Mountains

Railroad tracks

This photograph has on the back the label "Country Life in America" which was an illustrated magazine published from 1901-1942 targeting readers interested in suburban living. The photograph was possibly taken to promote rail travel to the region and is now part of a collection documenting the activities of the Appalachian National Park Association. The Association, founded in 1899, played a key role in the movement for the establishment of a national park in the Southern Appalachians. George S. Powell was the Association’s first president and Asheville physician Dr. Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932) was the secretary. Ambler deposited this collection in 1929 to the State Archives of North Carolina at Raleigh from where they were moved in 2012 to the Western Regional Archives located in Asheville.

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Appalachian National Park Association Records

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

Appalachian National Park Association

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photographs

eng

StillImage

19554

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/19554

2013-10-03

Reproduced with permission of North Carolina Western Regional Archives;

North Carolina

6" x 8"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America