Great Smoky Mountains

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,...

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Poems. “Reversal” by Mabel Good Frantz. ADS 1 pc. From “Nancy Hanks” by Katherine Garrison Chapin. 1939. ADS 1 pc. Short essay “The Great Smokies” by Carlos C. Campbell. August 28, 1939. B&W photograph of the Great Smoky Mountains attached to document. ADS 1 pc.

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5 photograph albums of photographs of Great Smoky Mountains and Smoky Mountains Hiking Club (all in one box); 2nd box has one album of US Bicentennial postage stamps, 2 albums of postcards (most of mountains); album of photographs re: ETHS and related events. Most photographs taken by Robert Cook (Bob). Extra gift of photographs added 6/98. + last day cover from Baum’s Home of Flowers (June 30, 1942). (Books and ephemera also recd.; added to collection)

Scope and Contents Roger H. Howell photographs and slides: color slides taken by Roger Howell ca. 1938 in the Great Smoky Mountains and Copper Hill (91 slides) + 41 slides of England and Charleston from Alice Howell; 69 b&w photographs (4"x6” or smaller), most by Roger Howell in the Great Smoky Mountains, ca. 1938-1941 (one photograph by Marion Hoss and one by David West Barber); 3 b&w printed cards (UT ‘View of the University, 1837.’ Bartlett Hall at Maryville College, and Willard House). Roger...

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Includes glass slides and b&w photographic negatives.

Scope and Contents Includes scrapbook of Russell W. Hanlon, Sr. (1894-1963), on Knoxville Automobile Club, Great Smoky Mountains, tourism, ca. 1920s-mid-1930s which includes information on Great Smoky Mountain Industries. Collection also includes photographs (Hanlon and McCoy families, David C. Chapman, Elkmont, Tenn., Gatlinburg, Knoxville, work by William J. McCoy, etc.); postcards; Knoxville High School Voice, 1912 and 1913; stamps; manuscripts material, including W.G. Brownlow and Oliver Temple/ Scotia...

Scope and Contents The Smoky Mountain Winter Experience was held at the new Ramsey Hotel and Convention Center in Pigeon Forge January 27-29, 2020; a completely FREE event that celebrates the National Park and preservation. This event will predominately focus on Biology, The National Park and the natural world. The presentations and hikes will be geared towards adults. - from the website1) Excursion descriptions of guided hikes available during the Smoky Mountain Winter Experience in the Great...

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Smoky Mountains, bear in tree, sugar cane extraction, Gatlinburg, molasses making, moonshining, snow, hunters, dead bear, corn harvesting, chapel, mill, Cable Mill, Cades Cove.

Scope and Contents Digitized file is 12:05, scanned at 18 FPSScenery at the Snow White Lodge in Gatlinburg, TN. According to an article in the Sept. 21, 1952 Knoxville Journal (page 39), the eight-room mountain lodge was built from the logs of a 117-year-old-bar at Knoxville. General Ogle did most of the construction work on the lodge for Kenneth W. Dennis and Mildred Dennis. The film shows the surrounding area as well as the interiors, with women giving a tour and a young boy playing...

Scope and Contents Digital file is 16:19, scanned at 16 fps. Film shows the scenery of the Great Smoky Mountains and Roane Mountain during the summer. It opens with an intertitle: "Summer time in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, forty miles from Knoxville - - noted for its scenic beauty, its many varieties of trees and flowers, its wild life, abundant trout streams and Mt. LeConte, 6,642 feet elevation"Scenery includes fields with hay, mountains, creek scenes,...

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“The Life of Hon. Joshua Caldwell by Mrs. George McCulley. Read at a memorial meeting at the Blount Home held by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Knoxville, Tennessee. June 1938.” Carbon TS 6 pp. + title sheet + 1 page poem “Evening In the Great Smokies” by Dubose Heyward.

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Three small paintings of the Great Smoky Mountains by Margaret Nine (1930- 2007) of Knoxville. Two of the Chimneys; one of the view from Morton Overlook. Ms. Nine was a Fellow of the National Association of Miniature Artisans and a member of the National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts. Her husband, Arthur DeForrest Nine, preceded her in death. Both are buried in Highland Cemetery, Knoxville.

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Approximately 200 separate reels of 16mm film of various lengths, totaling several thousand feet, representing Vic Weals' activities as a journalist, news stringer, and industrial filmmaker in East Tennessee from the 1950s to the 1970s. Weals was a columnist for the Knoxville Journal for several decades. The collection includes raw footage, pre-print materials, and preservation elements for a 1957 sponsored film promoting the Knox County school system.

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’View from Alum Cave, Tennessee’ pencil drawing. Labeled in ink but not signed. Approx. 9.5 x 7” with rounded corners, paper glued to a blue paper backing. 1 pc.

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Snow-covered Great Smoky Mountains; chalet.

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Construction in mountains.

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Construction in mountains; fishing in mountain stream; Cherokee National Forest

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Mountains, a bear, and a beekeeper appear in this reel, as well as footage of a chimney being demolished amidst the remains of a burned building.

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Picnic area in Great Smoky Mountains, presumed to be an example of Mission 66 park development.

Scope and Contents Oil portrait of Rand Walburn (d. 1919) Knoxville artist from 1905 until his death. Rand Walburn was married to Bertha Roth Walburn (later Mrs. Harold Clark) founder of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Folder contains newspaper clipping (undated) from art exhibit in Knoxville including work by Walburn. Three photographs plus one larger faded photograph of W. S. Barber and Walburn in Barber’s studio while the portrait was being painted. Small watercolor of mountains with name (Robert M?) on...

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Advertising card for Wiley Oakley, Native Roaming Man of the Mountains and the Official Guide, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Ca. 1930s. 1 pc. Postcard size.

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Real photo postcard (RPPC) of Wiley Oakley, Roamin’ Man O’The Mtns. Exline 58. 1 pc. in sleeve. Verso blank.

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Wonderland Club Hotel, Elkmont, Tenn.., brochure, No date. 1 pc. (ephemera)