Man operating Linn crawler tractor

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Title

Man operating Linn crawler tractor

Subject

Blue collar workers
Road construction workers
Roads -- Design and construction
Rocks
Tractors
Trucks

Description

A man sits on a Linn tractor crawler-type truck designed to move through deep mud. He is on the “Skyway,” the road from Newfound Gap to Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome 1859-2024) which was the first major road project undertaken by the federal government in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The work is being done by the Arundel Corp., of Baltimore, with W. H. Anderson, of Asheville as superintendent. The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads planned and directed this work for the National Park Service. 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.

Creator

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

Source

Carlos C. Campbell Collection

Date

1934-06-09

Rights

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

Format

negatives (photographs)

Language

eng

Type

StillImage

Identifier

65960
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65960

Spatial Coverage

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
Sevier County (Tenn.)
Swain County (N.C.)

Extent

3.25" x 4.25"(dimension)

Is Part Of

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

Citation

Campbell, Carlos C. (Carlos Clinton), 1892-1978, “Man operating Linn crawler tractor,” OAI, accessed May 15, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/65960.