Group portrait outside Swain County Courthouse

Group portrait outside Swain County Courthouse

Courthouses

Men

Portraits, Group

A group of men stand outside the Bryson City Courthouse. The man third from right in the back row is N. E. Wright, Superintendent of Swain County Schools from 1921 to 1929. B 379 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)

portraits

eng

StillImage

71030

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/71030

Bryson City (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia