Retaining wall for Newfound Gap Overlook

Retaining wall for Newfound Gap Overlook

Construction projects

Construction workers

Retaining walls

Women

Looking upward from the base of the wall, men are building a retaining wall on the North Carolina side of Newfound Gap Highway to hold fill for a 500-car plaza. Two men in suits are watching from below. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a founding member of the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club (est. 1924) and a charter member of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association (est. 1923). Campbell was an avid hiker and often assisted Jim Thompson with his camera equipment. When Campbell won a folding camera in 1935, he began his own photography journey, taking thousands of photographs and jotting down information about each one in small notebooks. His granddaughter, Rebecca Campbell Arrants, donated this collection of photographs and notebooks from 1934 - 1940 to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Campbell, Carlos C. (Carlos Clinton), 1892-1978

Carlos C. Campbell Collection

1934-03-22

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

65693

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65693

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

Swain County (N.C.)

3.25" x 4.25"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America