Great Smoky Mountains

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SPC 2015.010.001 Appalachian Club Memories near Gatlinburg. Friends of your Aunt Laura who lived in Gatlinburg. Lath house growing ginseng. RPPC SPC 2015.010.002 Appalachian Club Memories Above Little River. ‘More Smoky exploring.’ SPC 2015.010.003 Appalachian Club Memories. ‘Exploring in the Smokies.’ Faint image. SPC 2015.010.004 Appalachian Club Memories’ Aunt Bessie’s cabin in background by Little River.’ ‘She painted there in the summer at Elkmont.’

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Ca. 2,500 slides taken by Charles Suddarth Kelly (Knoxville, Great Smoky Mountains, Knoxville Hyatt construction site; family home “Ponduckii”; copies of Knoxville postcards);

Scope and Contents SPC 2014.017.001 Cherokee Indian School, North Carolina. Called “Yellow Hill” or ‘El-la-wah-dah.’ On the O-co-nh-luf-te River. About 1905. Miss Lucy Luttrell was school matron. 6x8” sepia print on board (mat is damaged). 1 pc. Donated June 29, 1936. SPC 2014.017.002 Cherokee Indian Reservation (Quallah Reservation). ‘El-la-wah-dah’ (meaning “Yellow Hill”) N.C. Oconalufti River. About 1904. 2 copies. 6x8” sepia print on board (mat is damaged). Donated March 2, 1927 by Laura Luttrell. Second...

Scope and Contents Two advertisements cut from the Knoxville Journal supplement, January 1936. 1. Club Nitengale advertisement from the Knoxville Journal supplement, January 1936. Club Nitengale opened May 1935. A February 11, 1936 Knoxville News Sentinel article mentions Food, Liquor, Gambling Devices...' at Club Nitengale. In October 1936 the Tower Hall Night Club opened in the same building. The building was destroyed by a fire in March 1941. The building was the old Fenton estate. 2. Smoky Mountain Transit...

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Color transparency of the painting “The Chimney Tops” by Charles Krutch (owned by Lawson McGhee Library). 4x5”.

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Several hundred feet of silent 16mm film depicting the private life of the Crowder family in and around Knoxville, TN, from approximately 1947 to 1953. Some segments are duplicated throughout the collection.

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Hope family letters, no date, 1823-1838; poem “Our Boys,” 1884; three photograph albums containing Hope family snapshots and pictures of local resorts, the Appalachian Exposition, Great Smoky Mountains, Elkmont, Henderson Springs, Jamestown Exposition, World War I parade in Knoxville, ships, etc.; Thomas Hope documents; The Builder’s Golden Rule by William Pain, no date (before 1828). Contains notes and entries by Thomas Hope.

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Book list featuring books about Great Smoky Mountains from Lawson McGhee Library

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14 large mounted b&w photographs, 3 oversize unmounted b&w photographs; 19 photographic postcards (same images as oversize photographs). Subjects include: Church & schoolhouse; Little Greenbrier; Milas Messer making barrel hoops; Cove Creek, N.C.; Walker Sisters cabin; Whaley Motel, Gatlinburg, etc.

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Research done by Henry R. Duncan, professor at the University of Tennessee College of Agriculture for many years. Collection includes his research on his records and correspondence re: Cades Cove and the people who lived there. Also includes correspondence, 1950s-1960s; material on the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club; clippings; printed material re: Great Smoky Mountains.

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Highland Glen, Tennessee. Shows running water, log across water, rocks, plants. (Stereoviews / stereographs). Handwritten note on back says: “near Gatlinberg (sic.) in the mountains.” Seller placed date as 1879 (no date on actual stereoview).

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“Andrew Jackson and the Indians,” “Railroads and Roads in the Great Smokies,” “Indian Gap Hotel,” “Lem Ownby and the Hammel Orchards,” “Early Transportation in East Tennessee”

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Isabel Gordon Carter research on Smoky Mountain families. 5x8” handwritten cards. + photocopy of article “Reduction of Variability In An Inbred Population” by Isabel Gordon Carter, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. XI, No. 3, April-June 1928.

Scope and Contents About 420 pcs. Box 1: Copy negatives (from photographs in this collection). Descriptions of photographs and printed material about Great Smoky Mountains photographs. Box 2: Descriptions, 5"x7” photographs backed on linen, b&w postcards; 8"x10" b&w prints, one folder of hand tinted photographs. Box 3: The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Leather bound album of mountains prints for sale. Backed on linen, descriptions on back of photograph. 12" x 10”. Also, loose oversize...

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Jim Thompson Co., Thompson Photograph Albums. World War I, Great Smoky Mountains.

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Possible initial road construction in Smokies?

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Newfound Gap, Smokemont.

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SV 2012.001a (front): 37570 Looking towards Tennessee from Clingmans Dome, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, North Carolina. 31* Keystone View Company, Manufacturers. Copyrighted, Made in U.S.A. Publishers, Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England. SV 2012.001 b (back): Description of image.

Scope and Contents 1. Unsigned pencil sketch of 2-story building with creek in foreground, labeled on back ‘Barn 1933.’ 10 x 9.5” (uneven edges). Small dark stain over roof. 2. Barn with mountain in background, fence posts in foreground. Labeled on back ‘L.E. Jones 1933 Not for Sale 11/15.’ Pencil sketch on Bristol board. Tear on upper edge near center; light staining where framed. 15 x11.” 3. “How Silently” The Great Smoky Mts. LEJ in right corner. Pencil (charcoal?) on paper. 10.5x8.5.” 4. River & rocks....

Scope and Contents Group of three (3) Louis Jones (1878-1958, American/Tennessee) drypoint etchings, depicting landscapes in the Smoky Mountains. Each pencil signed, titled and dated. Titles include: In the Great Smokies/1940, An Old Mountain Bridge/1940 and Little Cabin in the Smokies/1937. Etchings range in size from 4" H x 4 7/8" W to 4 3/8" H x 47/8" W. All housed in a contemporary 3-part frame, 8 1/4" H x 6" W, each frame. Note: Jones was an Impressionist painter from Woodstock, New York and...

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Six handwritten poems by Louisa Walker (one of the five Walker Sisters of the Great Smoky Mountains). Illustrated by Hazel Shelton. No date. Poem titles are: “Autumn”; untitled “I love early spring...” (signed); untitled “Spring comes along...” (signed); “Thanksgiving Day” (signed); “Deep in the Heart of the Smokies.”; “My Mountain Home” (signed) 2 pp. (re: losing home to the Park). + clipping picturing the five Walker Sisters.

Scope and Contents Max Bell Webb (Malone, New York) was employed as a draftsman by Alcoa and lived in Tenn. 1910-1917. He married Ruth Wilmarth in 1912. The couple lived in Tenn. The album includes meticulously labeled photographs of Alcoa workers and mountain scenes. The photographs are black-and-white of various sizes from 1.5 x 2.5 inches to 6.5 x 4.5 inches. The album probably documents life in Calderwood, the first base camp established by Alcoa in 1910 north of Maryville in Blount County. The community...

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Lots of A-frame houses in the Great Smoky Mountains; Ski Chalet Village?

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Mt. Nebo Inn, Oldest Resort in the Smokies (photocopy of brochure)1 folded brochure (4 pp with text and drawings) (2 illustrations, drawings “L. Carson ‘40”)

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October 1924 — On Cliff Top of Mt. LeConte — To discuss organization. Charley Barber, Frank Wilson, Baxter Gass, Guy Barber, Charley Kane, Charley Lester, Marshall Wilson, Louise Smith, Caesar Stair, Douglas Smith, Besse Geagley, George Barber, W. H. McCroskey, Carlos Campbell, and T. S. McKinney. Photo by Jim Thompson from pg 6 of The Golden Years of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club: Smoky Mountains Hiking Club History 1924-1974

Scope and Contents One black & white snapshot “On Myrtle Point of LeConte” taken by Roger H. Howell. September 25, 1938 (#1276). Group of people on point. ID on back: 1. Charlie Gibson (“tall, skinny, early hiker”) 2. Ed Coxe 3. Howard Goodhue (TVA engineer) 4. Willie V. Cooper (standing) 5. Dorothy Levan (?) 6. Alice Lynn (later Mrs. Roger Howell) 7. Alice Ogden 8. Guy Frizzell (“U.T. ‘Office Assistant’ Ag Extension”) 9. Van 10. Vivian Boughter (sitting in front & in middle of group in tie and head...

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Two Oversize color postcards--”Newfound Gap and Rockefeller Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park” and “ A Scene from the Top of Fontana Dam, N.C. Both postcards published by “Standard Souvenirs & Novelties, Inc. Knoxville Tenn.”

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Paul Fink correspondence with Joseph Cox concerning Great Smoky Mountains (1927). Fink was promoting putting the Great Smoky Mountains into “Ask Adventure” and putting forward Horace Kephart as writer for stories on the Smokies.

Scope and Contents Includes papers, records, photographs and memorabilia of Paul Mathes Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesboro, Tenn. Subjects include: Jonesboro, Washington County, Tenn; Tennessee Historical Commission, 1969-1975; Appalachian Consortium; Great Smoky Mountains; Appalachian Trail; Arnold Guyot; photographs and slides, most of Great Smoky Mountains; George Masa; Benton McKaye; Horace Kephart. 1909 Jonesboro High School diploma and 1920 Kerbela Temple certificate in folder 1. Appalachian Consortium award...

Scope and Contents Letter from Paul H. Wright, Maryville, Tenn., to Gracie. Nov. 26, 1890. Note added to top of first page: “My dead Gracie, I love thee so very much. Thy Mother.” ALS 2 pcs. (4 pp.). Mentions writers toothache and exhaustion, long walk with papa, stop at a school house called Shake-rag or Scab that had a spelling bee, invitation to and description of Thanksgiving meal, Lynn Hill’s 10 minute prayer before the meal, games after the meal. Letter from Papa, Maryville, Tenn., to Gracie June 6,...