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• 1.   Parkway Loop Plan Is Given Endorsement At Gathering In Raleigh (Page 1 of 2)
  February 1, 1934
• 2.   Parkway Loop Plan Is Given Endorsement At Gathering In Raleigh (Page 2 of 2)
  February 1, 1934
• 3.   Parkway Group Inspects NC Route (Page 1 of 2)
  March 25, 1934
• 4.   Parkway Group On Inspection of N.C. Route (Page 2 of 2)
  May 22, 1934
• 5.   Parkway Group On Inspection of N.C. Route (Page 1 of 2)
  May 22, 1934
• 6.   Cammerer And Party To Visit Cherokee Area (Page 1 of 2)
  June 15, 1934
• 7.   Cammerer Sees Park Opened in Summer of 1935: Visit Has Nothing To Do With Parkway Route, He Explains (Page 1 of 2)
  June 16, 1934
• 8.   Notables Are Welcomed to W.N.C. Area (Page 1 of 2)
  June 16, 1934
• 9.   Cammerer Sees Park Opened in Summer of 1935: Visit Has Nothing To Do With Parkway Route, He Explains (Page 2 of 2)
  June 16, 1934
• 10.   Notables Are Welcomed to W.N.C. Area (Page 2 of 2)
  June 16, 1934
• 11.   Asheville And The Parkway
  June 22, 1934
• 12.   Asheville Will Be On Parkway, Says Senator: Reynolds Plans To Stay Here Until Ickes Has Hearing
  August 19, 1934
• 13.   Officials From City To Attend Ickes' Hearing (Page 2 of 2)
  September 7, 1934
• 14.   Officials From City To Attend Ickes' Hearing (Page 1 of 2)
  September 7, 1934
• 15.   N. C. Presses Claims For Parkway At Hearing (Page 2 of 2)
  September 19, 1934
• 16.   N. C. Presses Claims For Parkway At Hearing (Page 1 of 2)
  September 19, 1934
• 17.   People Here Receive News With Delight (Page 2 of 2)
  November 13, 1934
• 18.   People Here Receive News With Delight (Page 1 of 2)
  November 13, 1934
• 19.   Culvert -- Corrugated Iron Type
  May 1, 1935
• 20.   Craggy Pinnacle and Dome
  June 8, 1935
• 21.   Craggy Gap from Bee Tree Road
  June 8, 1935
• 22.   Craggy Flats
  June 8, 1935
• 23.   Craggy dome
  June 8, 1935
• 24.   Craggy Pinnacle Rhododendron gardens and top
  June 8, 1935
• 25.   Craggy Pinnacle Rhododendron gardens
  June 8, 1935
• 26.   Craggy Pinnacles From National Forest Preserve Area
  June 8, 1935
• 27.   Craggy Pinnacle
  June 8, 1935
• 28.   Lanes Pinnacles from Bee Tree Gap
  June 8, 1935
• 29.   Bee Tree Gap Road
  June 8, 1935
• 30.   Craggy Pinnacle Craggy Dome and the Pinnacles and Blue Ridge
  June 8, 1935
• 31.   Craggy Pinnacle Rock Cliffs and Rhododendron
  June 8, 1935
• 32.   Bull Creek
  June 9, 1935
• 33.   Bull Creek from Scenic Road
  June 9, 1935
• 34.   Bull Creek from Scenic Road
  June 9, 1935
• 35.   From Elk Mt. Scenic Road, Bull Creek Valley
  June 9, 1935
• 36.   Swannanoa Mountains in Distance - Bull Creek Valley
  June 9, 1935
• 37.   Rich Knob From scenic road
  June 9, 1935
• 38.   Lanes pinnacle and Rich Knob from Elk Mt. scenic road
  June 9, 1935
• 39.   From Mt. Meadows Inn
  June 9, 1935
• 40.   Asheville Airport Tennessee Valley Authority Plane Mr. Austin
  June 19, 1935
• 41.   Asheville Airport from Air
  June 19, 1935
• 42.   Mt Pisgah from Battery Park
  June 19, 1935
• 43.   Cutting by State Right of way party
  April 15, 1937
• 44.   Culvert on side of slope above hollow
  July 14, 1937
• 45.   Retaining Wall
  September 14, 1937
• 46.   Cut Road
  September 14, 1937
• 47.   Cut Road
  September 14, 1937
• 48.   Deep Rock Cut North
  September 14, 1937
• 49.   Gardner-Denver machinery
  September 14, 1937
• 50.   Gasoline Truck
  September 14, 1937
• 51.   Bucyrus Erie shovel
  September 14, 1937
• 52.   Tunnel Excavation
  September 14, 1937
• 53.   Tunnel Excavation
  September 14, 1937
• 54.   Extensive fill scars developing in heavy (rock) construction
  March 8, 1938
• 55.   Fill scar, slide area, and overcast material
  June 25, 1938
• 56.   Fill scar area and overcast material
  June 25, 1938
• 57.   Fill scar, slide area and overcast material
  June 25, 1938
• 58.   Fill scar area and overcast material
  June 25, 1938
• 59.   South portal tunnel #1
  June 25, 1938
• 60.   South portal tunnel #1
  June 25, 1938
• 61.   South portal tunnel #1
  June 25, 1938
• 62.   South portal tunnel #1
  June 25, 1938
• 63.   South portal tunnel #1
  June 25, 1938
• 64.   Tunnel #1 cut during excavation
  October 1938
• 65.   Tunnel #1 cut during excavation
  October 1938
• 66.   North end of former tunnel
  November 8, 1938
• 67.   Excessive overcast yardage from bench cut in rock
  December 1938
• 68.   Excessive overcast yardage from bench cut in rock, looking down from shoulder
  December 1938
• 69.   Push Work on 160-Miles Parkway Link
  December 11, 1938
• 70.   Old building to be obliterated as seen from Parkway
  March 28, 1939
• 71.   Old buildings to be obliterated
  March 28, 1939
• 72.   Rock slide and scaling operations
  July 25, 1939
• 73.   Rock slide, partially cleared
  July 25, 1939
• 74.   Maximum Limit Buses on Parkway - Temporary Checking Station
  July 25, 1939
• 75.   North portal Tanbark Ridge Tunnel
  1940s
• 76.   North portal Tanbark Ridge Tunnel
  1940s
• 77.   Scenic View, Overlook 829
  1940s
• 78.   Looking north on Parkway
  1940
• 79.   Looking North on Parkway
  1940
• 80.   Looking North on Parkway
  1940
• 81.   Looking south on Parkway
  1940
• 82.   Parkway Nears Its Final Stage
  April 30, 1940
• 83.   Headquarters Site
  June 1940
• 84.   Headquarters Site
  June 1940
• 85.   Asheville Headquarters Site
  June 1940
• 86.   Entrance Headquarters from US 70
  June 1940
• 87.   Oteen from Headquarters Site
  June 1940
• 88.   Entrance headquarters from US 70
  June 1940
• 89.   Wheel Gate
  November 1941
• 90.   Wheel Gate
  November 1941

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