View from Chimney Tops

View from Chimney Tops

Camp sites, facilities, etc.

Mountains

Rivers

Roads

Scenic overlooks

The view from Chimney Tops shows the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s first campground, built to accommodate 110 cars and tents. Newfound Gap Highway and West Prong Little Pigeon River meander through the area. 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

1934-06-10

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

65975

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/65975

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

Sevier County (Tenn.)

3.25" x 4.25"(dimension)

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