Park visitors at overlook

Description

This photograph of park visitors at an unidentified overlook in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in the Hiram C. Wilburn collection. A native of South Carolina and graduate of Clemson College, Hiram Coleman Wilburn (1880-1967) worked as a land surveyor for the North Carolina Park Commission before being employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a trail foreman. When the CCC dissolved in 1942, Wilburn’s official work with the park was ended. He maintained a home in Waynesville and became the unofficial historian for the North Carolina side of the park. Wilburn is credited with curating the earliest collections that would form the nucleus of the park’s museum. The back of the photograph is stamped “Siddell Studio/ Raleigh N.C.,” presumably where the photograph was printed.
Details
- Creator
  - Unknown
- Contributor
  - Siddell Studio (Raleigh, N.C.)
  - Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date digitized: 2013-11-18
- Extent
  - Dimension: 4" x 5"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Hiram C. Wilburn Papers
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_13406_02_21_06
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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