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Stamps--C.P. Ambler and R. Henry Scadin

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  • These stamps are present in the back of a photograph which is now part of a collection documenting the activities of the Appalachian National Park Association. The Appalachian National Park Association was founded in 1899 and played a key role in the movement for the establishment of a national park in the Southern Appalachians. George S. Powell was the Association’s first president and Asheville physician Dr. Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932) was the secretary. R. Henry Scadin moved to Western North Carolina in 1889 and was a prolific photographer of the region. Chase P. Ambler deposited this collection in 1929 to the State Archives of North Carolina at Raleigh from where they were moved in 2012 to the Western Regional Archives located in Asheville.