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

Scope and Contents Harvey Broome (1902-1968) was a lawyer, conservationist, writer of natural history. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee (1923), received a law degree from Harvard (1926), and was licensed to practice law in Tennessee and before the Sixth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, Harvey Broome was one of the organizers of the Wilderness Society in 1935. Harvey and his wife Anne were avid hikers and members of the Smoky Mountains...

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b&w negatives from the 1920s-1950s; mostly taken in Sevier County in the Dupont community and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Scope and Contents Hugh Tyler is the presumed photographer, except in the case of two Cline commercial slides of the Smokies. Some slides are labeled with a simple description. Most are undated, though a few date to 1955. The majority were taken in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and vicinity--subjects include Mount LeConte, Cades Cove, Pigeon Forge (Pigeon Forge Pottery and Old Mill), and Knoxville (Henley Bridge, river, downtown skyline, Main Street post office). The Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah...

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Hymn to the Great Smokies. Dedicated to the Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Words by Mrs. Eva Plamondon Boyd, West Asheville, N.C., and music by Miss Margaret Stringfield., Waynesville, N.C.. Sheet music. 1 pc. (4 pp.). Tear on front. Inscription on upper right cover page “For the Lawson McGhee Library With best wishes of the composer Margeret Stringfield.’ Handwritten date 1-18-39

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One box of negatives taken by Jack Huff, ca. 1930s-1940s. Includes Mt. LeConte, Huff cabin, FDR Speech (1940) at the dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Scope and Contents Four albums of Thompson photographs, with b&w prints mounted on linen. Three albums of Great Smoky Mountains photographs and one of Knoxville scenes and businesses. These were rescued from the Thompsons building after a fire in the 1950s by Alva Harmon, a Knoxville Fire Dept. chief. The albums were slightly scorched and damaged by the fire and were given to Mr. Harmon by the Thompsons.Albums removed from binding and foldered in boxes by album. Box 1: Photographs of the...

Scope and Contents Newspaper and magazine clippings, documents, exhibition notes, colored photographs biographical material on the artist and his career Book: Roads I’ve Traveled. Videos: Great Smokies 75th Anniversary, Collection of Jim Gray Art; The Light of the World, The Art of Jim Gray; “Renowned American Artist Jim Gray (Knoxville PBS WSJK) Original ink sketches by Jim Gray on Biltmore House brochure and on 8 Knoxville Symphony Orchestra programs from 1985-1987. Photocopies and digital scans about Jim...

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Brochure for Knoxville: City of the Great Smokies and Norris Dam. Includes black-and-white photographs of Knoxville and vicinity, including Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Norris Dam

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L. R. Hesler Collection -- publications concerning the Great Smoky Mountains National Park containing pamphlets, booklets, maps, ephemera. Includes the 1935 National Geographic Magazine with the article “Rambling around the Roof of Eastern America” by Leonard C. Roy. with photographs by Jim Thompson, Carlos Campbell and others

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August 12(?), 1935, letter from Marie (Mrs. William M. Coward), 2108 Jefferson Avenue, Knoxville,Tenn., to Clara Coward, St. Louis, Mo. 1 pc. + printed envelope (Knoxville ‘See Norris Dam and Great Smoky Mts. Park. All paved roads.’ with 3 cent stamp. Small snapshot of girl’s face also included. ALS 3 pp. (1 pc.). Re: come home soon, family life.

Scope and Contents Photographs & ephemera from the McCammon-Lowry Estate. Contains tintypes, CDVs, cabinet photographs, photo postcards, photograph albums, and other original photographs of Luttrell, Sullins, Lowry, Reynaldo, Maloney, Dodson, Daffner, Hazen, Pickel, and McCammon family members. Many items are unidentified and undated though several are dated ca. 1899. Also contains a photograph of Park City Presbyterian Church before the re-building, no date. 2 folders of blue line plans of Smokemont Camp...

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Two brochures from the Mountain View Hotel, Gatlinburg, Tenn.. One is B&W with A.J. Huff listed as manager and owner. Includes 1930 map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The second brochure appears to be later (undated) and uses some color.

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June 30, 1938, letter from Marie & June Anne (?) ‘written by ECS’ on letterhead stationery from the Mountain View Hotel, Gatlinburg, Tenn., to Mr. C. G.(?) Kindred, Chicago, IL. ALS 3 pp. + envelope with 3 cent stamp and one unused postcard from Laurel Springs, Gatlinburg, Tenn. Back of stationery shows Scenes from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Thompson’s Inc. Letter re: stay in the mountains and local people they met.

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One uncirculated roll of quarters issued to honor the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 40 pcs. in one roll. Released January 29, 2014.

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Great Smoky Mtns. National Park, "Our National Park", brochure, early 1930s (no date). Promo for Conservation Association headed by Chapman and Davis to get us the Park. Brochure opens to reveal a photo of Chimney Tops. "What The Park Will Mean To the People Of Tennessee" is the theme. Map on front.

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“Photos by Jimmy Myers.” One photograph album (10x13”) with B&W prints mounted on pages. Subjects include Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1940, dedication of Great Smoky Mountains National Park), University of Tenn. football, Knoxville and regional street scenes, Gay Street Christmas lights, and visiting celebrities, 1938-1940. Jimmy Myers was a photographer for the Knoxville Journal, then fought in World War II, and returned to work for the Tenn. Valley Authority (TVA).

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Posters. “The Great Smokies” Official Commemorative poster of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1934-1984. Design by Delores Roberson, showing “Wild Heritage” by Lee Roberson. Color “Wild Heritage” 50 year commemorative

Scope and Contents Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, Knoxville (Tenn.), and Great Smoky Mountains, Inc. Asheville (N. C.), pamphlet, "Save Our Mountains." No date, early 1930s, 7 pages, photo illustrated pamphlet explains the current use of the lands, future use and restrictions, and makes an appeal for the Federal Government to step in and purchase the land, as it has in the past with other Parks, instead of making the purchase a burden on the citizens of the two states. Citizen purchase is also...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook (partial) with 17 snapshots, labeled with handwritten note: Porter Family Summer, 1941, compiled by E. Porter. The Porter family was from Galveston, Tex.. The father was Eugene L. Porter and mother was Helen Nichols Porter. Includes: Eleanor Porter graduation’ Porter offspring; trip to Charlie’s Bunion; Ramsey Cascades; cabin in Gatlinburg. Given in memory of Eugene L. Porter. SPC 2016.007.016 Group of steps of cabin [Porter family], 1941. SPC 2016.007.017 View of Gatlinburg cabin...

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Smoky Sky Lift, Gatlinburg, Tenn. June 17, 1961. Photograph. Unidentified boy riding sky lift.

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Box 1: 10 stereo transparencies/stereo duplicates. 2 of Cades Cove, Jan 1956; 8 ‘Grandpa Campbell’s former home in Tuckahoe,' 8-17-[19]65 (IDs in ink on each mounting). Box 2: Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Jim Thompson photo. Stereo transparencies in plastic housing. Handwritten ID on printed label. 18 pcs. Box 3: Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Jim Thompson photo. Stereo transparencies in plastic housing. Handwritten ID on printed label. 15 pcs.

Scope and Contents Business and personal papers, photographs, documents of John Monroe Clark (1868-1950) of Blount County, Tennessee and the allied families of Cates, Brabson, Foute and Pinkerton. John Monroe Clark was a successful banker, civic leader, businessman, and an active participant in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was instrumental in preserving and maintaining Clark’s Grove Cemetery and operated a large farm in Blount County. Other important individuals in the...

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“The Mountaineers of Tennessee. Greenbrier 1926.” A Chronicle of visits by Robert Parke. Copyright 1983. 90 pp. PHOTOCOPY. Mentions Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Bohannan family, etc.

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”The Walker Stone and Mt. LeConte” article written by Wm. J. McCoy, Jr., 1990. Photocopy + one 8x10” color photograph.

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Marvin, Theodore. “The Great Smoky Mountain [sic] Park” Possibly draft of a pamphlet published in 1926.

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Pamphlets: -Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Gatlinburg map -Fort Loudoun brochure (Vonore) -Tuckaleechee Caverns brochure (Townsend) -Chucky Jack brochures (two) -Skyland Motel brochure (Gatlinburg) -Rawlings Motel brochure (Gatlinburg) -Town Lodge Motel brochure (Knoxville) -Knoxville Airport Transit Service -Norris Dam fact sheet -Smoky Mountain Tours Company (Knoxville)

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Twenty-one small B&W photographs of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by W.M. Cline, Chattanooga. 1.75x2.5” Printed IDs. + cardboard case that held photographs (set included 20 views; there is one duplicate photograph of black bears). Subjects include: black bears, Clingman’s Dome, Little Pigeon River, Mt. LeConte, the Sawteeth, The Loop, Newfound Gap, Alum Cave Bluff, Chimney Tops, Laurel Falls and Rainbow Falls.

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Virginia Nieman, Memory Albums 1933, 1934 Great Smoky Mountains and Knoxville. Text, photographs, post cards.

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Wonderland Club Hotel envelope with photograph of hotel in upper left with ‘The Wonderland Club Hotel The only hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park under U.S. supervision. Elkmont, Tennessee. Addressed to Miller’s, 423-439 Gay St., City. Postmarked Knoxville, Tenn. June 30, 1939 12:30 pm. Canceled 2-cent stamp. 1 pc. ephemera