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Laura Thornburgh captured a rainstorm falling on distant mountains.
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The Gregg-Cable house was built in 1879 from lumber sawed at the Cable Mill.
Palmer Chapel was built in 1898. Circuit-riding preachers conducted services once a month, but Sunday school was held every week.
Margurett Powell Rider (violin) and Harriett Powell Myers (banjo) play for family members outside the George W. Powell home in Chestnut Flats. Photo taken around 1900.
A young boy posing with a hog rifle. He is wearing a powder horn and pouch. Photo taken around 1906.
A steam shovel cuts through the Little River Gorge to lay railroad tracks for the Little River Lumber Company and Little River Railroad. Photo circa 1906.
Becky Cable spinning on her porch in Cades Cove.
The homes of logging company employees were lined up alongside the railroad tracks in Elkmont. Photo taken by Jim Shelton around 1912.
American mountain ash (Sorbus americana) is a small tree that can be found at elevations above 5,000 feet in the park. It is especially abundant in areas such as Clingmans Dome and on Mount Le Conte. In Septemb More
The arched stone bridge over the Little River in Elkmont was built by CCC workers.
Dragonfly inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Laura Thornburgh in a self-portrait.
John Walker was the father of 11 children, including the famous Walker Sisters. He was a skilled blacksmith, carpenter, miller, and farmer. Proud of his orchard, he posed for this photo with a basket of cherrie More
A CCC crew using a Hanson excavator to slope a road bank along Highway 107 in North Carolina.
Aden Carver working with a sorghum mill.
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Sophie Campbell made clay pipes which she sold to people in the Gatlinburg area.
Citizen scientist sampling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Mrs. Minnie (Reed) Quilliams boils clothes in an iron pot. Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Enrollees from Company #411 pose behing the Officers Quarters at Camp NP-5, Kephart Prong.
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A CCC enrollee cleaning plant seeds for revegetation projects at the Ravensford Nursery.
Mission 66 structure in front of mountains in Great Smokey National Park. Image Number WASO Co 3562.
A young man uses a soil sifter to search for artifacts
The enrollees of Camp NP-7, Mount Sterling, Company 415, enjoy in some "horse play" in front of their tents.
Although noted for her photographs of mountain people, Laura Thornburgh also captured scenes of the forest in the Smokies.
Young hikers follow a ranger on a late fall hike in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Mountain guide Bill Ramsay hiking on a trail towards Mt. Le Conte.
In very cold weather, the 80-foot tall waterfall sometimes freezes into an hourglass shape.
A railroad handcar travels through an area in Cataloochee that has been logged. Discarded branches and debris from logging, known as "slash", litter the slope.
Law enforcement officers stand beside a captured moonshine still
The fall colors light up the trail for a youth group and their chaperones on a ranger walk in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Laura Thornburgh photo of the pool below a waterfall
Two firefighters with drip torches in a meadow.
Mountain guide Bill Ramsay hiking on a trail to Mt. Le Conte.
Relief shown by spot heights. Panel title: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee. "Reprint 1981." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes More
A boy takes corn to the mill to be ground in this 1920 photo from Cades Cove.
Stump of a large tulip poplar tree cut by Little River Lumber Company on Lynn Camp Prong. Photo by Jim Shelton in 1926.
Molly McCarter Ogle rocks her daughter Mattie on the porch. This photo has become one of the most famous images created of mountain people in the Smokies. Photo taken in 1928.
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The John "Gull" Tipton family around 1930. John Tipton operated Cable Mill in Cades Cove for a time during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Black bears - climbing trees and mountain sides, or investigating refuse left at camping ground, or walking along the Newfound Gap Highway - are a frequent sight for tourists visiting the Great Smoky Mountain N More
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Black bears may be seen frequently along the highways in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Under protection of the National Park they have become unafraid of human beings. The black bear is a native of t More
Men pose in front of the park office in Bryson City, NC in 1933
CCC enrollees from Company #411 pose behind the Officers Quarters at Camp NP-5, Kephart Prong. Company. Photo taken in 1934.
Building the Miry Ridge Trail. Photo taken in 1934 or 1935.
The baseball team from Company #411 at Smokemont. Photo taken in 1935.
The CCC built fish rearing ponds for a trout hatchery located near the present day Chimneys Picnic Area. Photo taken in 1935.
CCC crew building a road. Photo taken in 1935.
Mack Hannah, Little Cataloochee Creek. Photo taken in 1935. Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
CCC masons built stone guard rails and bridges throughout the park. Photo taken in 1935.
Rocks were cut for use in bridges and guard rails along park roads. Photo taken in 1936.
CCC enrollees "heeled in" bundles of hardwood tree seedlings to temporarily keep them in preparation for shipping. Photo taken November 1936.
A CCC enrollee holding a red oak seedling at the Ravensford Nursery. Photo taken in November 1936.
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Title and date devised by Library staff. Photograph from envelope labeled "Brother's Army pictures". Collected by Sylvester McCauley, Rosa Parks' brother, during his years in the Army (1942-1946). Forms part of More
Photograph from envelope labeled "Brother's Army pictures". Collected by Sylvester McCauley, Rosa Parks' brother, during his years in the Army (1942-1946). Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks P More
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Mile High Parking Overlook, Heintooga Spur Road off Milepost 458