Blue Ridge from the lodge on Mount Toxaway, Sapphire, N.C.

Blue Ridge from the lodge on Mount Toxaway, Sapphire, N.C.

Blue Ridge Mountains

Fences

Landscapes

This photograph of the Blue Ridge Mountains was published by the Detroit Photographic Company which began as a photographic publishing firm in the 1890s before changing its name to Detroit Publishing Company in 1905. The photograph is 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.

Detroit Photographic Co.

Appalachian National Park Association Records

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

1902

Appalachian National Park Association

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2013-10-02

Reproduced with permission of North Carolina Western Regional Archives;

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

Transylvania County (N.C.)

14" x 11"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America