TVA Freeway construction

Description

The photographer is standing on a hill above a Bucyrus Erie shovel that is dumping dirt into a dump truck during construction of a new road that he has labeled “TVA Freeway,” possibly referring to the Norris Freeway. Several more trucks are waiting. 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: 1934-06-06
- Extent
  - Dimension: 3.25" x 4.25"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Knox County (Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Carlos C. Campbell Collection
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_208328_0300_06
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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