Alice Caton with tree on stilts

Description

Alice Caton is looking closely at the tree on stilts found on the Laural Falls and Cove Mountain trail. The tree started growing on the log (seen at lower right), and as the log decayed it left the tree “up in the air.” 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.
Details
- Creator
  - Campbell, Carlos C. (Carlos Clinton), 1892-1978
- Format
  - Negatives (photographs)
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1935-03-17
- Extent
  - Dimension: 4.5" x 2.75"
- Subject - Topic
  - Hikers
  - Trees
  - Women
- Location
  - Sevier County (Tenn.)
  - Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Carlos C. Campbell Collection
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_208328_0528
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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