A bear cub at CCC camp in Elkmont

A bear cub at CCC camp in Elkmont

Bear cubs

Candy

Captive wild animals

Eakin, J. Ross, 1879-1946

Fechner, Robert

The photographer notes, “Watch him stretch for that candy that Robert Fechner holds so tantalizingly just out of the bear’s reach. Major J. Ross Eakin is an interested onlooker. The bear is kept at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Elkmont.” 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

1935-07-12

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negatives (photographs)

eng

StillImage

72912

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

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

Sevier County (Tenn.)

4.5" x 2.75"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America