Chimney Tops from Davis Bracken's front porch

Chimney Tops from Davis Bracken's front porch

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

Dwellings

Mountains

Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great Smoky Mountains and surrounding area. A banker and a conservationist, Fink kept a journal of his explorations and published his entries in Backpacking Was the Only Way (1975). On the back of this undated photograph, Fink wrote: View of Chimneys from "Jasper Finn's" front porch - never will I forget it! - nor that real rocking chair. "Jasper" offered me up on that same front porch - after our tramp from Elkmont and our destination a camp to be pitched around that point of the "chimneys" out there in the distance - O, that view! and O! my feet. Note: Davis Bracken is ref

Paul Fink Collection

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2017-09-01

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Chimney Tops (Tenn.)

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

Sevier County (Tenn.)

North Carolina, Western

3.5" x 2.5"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America