Incline railroad

Incline railroad

Railroad tracks

Shelton family

Jim Shelton’s family playing on the railroad tracks next to an incline railroad used for logging. Seated are his wife Caroline and his children Leona and Effie. Standing are John and Hazel. His half-siblings Otis and Nora Shelton are standing at the extreme right. The photographer is James Baldwin Shelton (1886-1977). Shelton grew up in the Smoky Mountains and worked for John N. Walker in Little Greenbrier, Tennessee. He married Sarah “Caroline” Walker, whose sisters are famous for securing a lifetime lease to remain in their home, becoming a living museum when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created. Shelton carried his bulky camera, glass plates, and tripod around the mountains capturing life in the Smokies in the early 1900s. He built a darkroom over a stream where he processed his negatives. In the mid-1940s, Maidee DeLoche Adams bought the photographs from Shelton and provided the contextual information for this collection.

Shelton, James Baldwin, 1886-1977

J. B. Lawson Collection

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

72615

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/72615

Sevier County (Tenn.)

3.5" x 5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia