Teachers of Bryson City High School

Teachers of Bryson City High School

Banners

High school teachers

Portraits, Group

Teachers of the Bryson City High School are lined up across the street. A “Welcome Motorcade” banner is stretched out behind them. The man in the middle is Coach Marr and the woman to the left of him is Miss Clinkscales. B 378 is written on the negative. The photographer, “Doc” Kelly Bennett (1890-1974), was a prominent pharmacist in Swain County, NC. Owner of the Bryson City Drug Company, Bennett served as alderman and mayor of Bryson City, on the Swain County Board of Education, as well as several terms as NC State Senator and NC State Representative. He participated in numerous other initiatives and organizations. Known as the “Apostle of the Smokies,” Bennett was an instrumental figure in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was also an avid photographer, skillfully documenting a wide variety of people, places, and events in Swain County and the surrounding area.

Bennett, Kelly, 1890-1974

Kelly Bennett Collection

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

71029

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/71029

Swain County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia