Coca-Cola bottle as insulator

Coca-Cola bottle as insulator

Bottles

Electric lines

Electric power transmission

A Coca-Cola bottle is being used as an insulator on an overhead electric wire at the Riverside Hotel in Gatlinburg. The bottle was installed by C.M. Leeman, National Park Service landscape architect. 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

1934-07-29

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

66549

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/66549

Sevier County (Tenn.)

3.25" x 4.25"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America