Logging: railroad cuts

Description

This photograph of a logging railroad north of Flat Creek, North Carolina shows Mount Sterling in the distance. The picture was made by George Alexander Grant (1891-1964), the first chief photographer for the National Park Service. He began work in 1929 under Horace Albright, the second NPS director, who hired him to create a documentary file of images for use in reports, interpretive projects, education, and public information. Considered an Eminent Photographer, many of Grant’s photographs were published without his name, instead, being credited as an “NPS photo.” Before his retirement in 1954, Grant created approximately 30,000-40,000 images for NPS.
Details
- Creator
  - Grant, George Alexander, 1891-1964
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date original: 1931
  - Date digitized: 2015-07-01
- Extent
  - Dimension: 5" x 7"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Mount Sterling (N.C.)
  - Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Historic Photographs Collection
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_02120_III-L-16466
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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