Preparing for group photo on mountaintop

Preparing for group photo on mountaintop

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A group of hikers stand on a mountaintop while a person sets up a tripod to take a picture. An unknown mountain is in view and on the envelope for the negative is written “Blackface - from top of Blue Ridge about 2 miles west of Whiteside.” 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

1934-05-27

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

65910

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65910

Macon County (N.C.)

3.25" x 4.25"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America