Effie, Leona, and Hazel Shelton

Description

Effie, Leona, and Hazel, children of Caroline Walker Shelton and Jim Shelton, wearing handmade dresses. Jim Shelton explains, "Back in them days we got what they called calico, bought by the yard." The photographer is James Baldwin Shelton (1886-1977). Shelton grew up in the Smoky Mountains and worked for John N. Walker in Little Greenbrier, Tennessee. He married Sarah “Caroline” Walker, whose sisters are famous for securing a lifetime lease to remain in their home, becoming a living museum when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created. Shelton carried his bulky camera, glass plates, and tripod around the mountains capturing life in the Smokies in the early 1900s. He built a darkroom over a stream where he processed his negatives. In the mid-1940s, Maidee DeLoche Adams bought the photographs from Shelton and provided the contextual information for this collection.
Details
- Creator
  - Shelton, James Baldwin, 1886-1977
- Format
  - Photographs
  - Portraits
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1924
- Extent
  - Dimension: 5.75" x 3.5"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Sevier County (Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - J. B. Lawson Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS97-07_01_03_024
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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