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• 1.   #10 Bridge over Little Glade Creek
  1930s
• 2.   Farmland and road
  1930s
• 3.   Parking overlook
  1930s
• 4.   Before grading. 1:1 cut gullying badly; too steep to grass; flatten and round for grass
  July 25, 1935
• 5.   General view of construction rough grading
  November 26, 1935
• 6.   Bridge Tunnel
  May 23, 1936
• 7.   Bridge Tunnel
  May 23, 1936
• 8.   Bridge Site #10 Prior to Construction
  June 23, 1936
• 9.   First Parkway Crossing of NC 18, Near Sparta, NC
  July 22, 1936
• 10.   Early Construction of Bridge in Section 2A
  July 22, 1936
• 11.   View of Machined-Flattened Parkway
  July 22, 1936
• 12.   Car on winding road
  July 22, 1936
• 13.   Vehicle Tracks
  July 22, 1936
• 14.   Side view Bridge Construction in Section 2A
  July 22, 1936
• 15.   Bridge Construction in Section 2A
  July 22, 1936
• 16.   Part of #2 Abutment Face
  July 23, 1936
• 17.   Bridge 2
  July 23, 1936
• 18.   Buck Creek Gap
  August 14, 1936
• 19.   Hare Mill Pond, scenic view
  August 22, 1936
• 20.   Early Construction
  August 22, 1936
• 21.   Hare Mill Pond, scenic view
  August 22, 1936
• 22.   Retaining Wall
  August 22, 1936
• 23.   Bridge and Abutment Construction
  August 22, 1936
• 24.   Bridge and Abutment Construction
  August 22, 1936
• 25.   Excavation for tree well
  August 23, 1936
• 26.   Bridge 10, site of construction
  August 23, 1936
• 27.   Bridge 10, site of construction
  August 23, 1936
• 28.   View from edge of parkway, 1 looking north along alignment towad Cumberland Knob Park Area
  September 1936
• 29.   Stone Cement Gutter
  October 5, 1936
• 30.   Stone Cement Gutter
  October 5, 1936
• 31.   View Looking South
  October 12, 1936
• 32.   View across parkway looking east into escarpment one-half mile south of Cumberland Knob
  October 12, 1936
• 33.   View of alignment looking north near beginning of the section.
  October 13, 1936
• 34.   Partly Completed Parking
  October 28, 1936
• 35.   Bridge #6 Construction
  October 29, 1936
• 36.   Hare Mill Pond and road after clean-up
  November 10, 1936
• 37.   Rounded Roadway
  December 1, 1936
• 38.   Roadway
  December 1, 1936
• 39.   Route 18 Crossing
  February 2, 1937
• 40.   Car on Road
  February 2, 1937
• 41.   Route 18 Intersection
  February 2, 1937
• 42.   Cumberland Knob Parking
  February 2, 1937
• 43.   Early construction
  February 2, 1937
• 44.   Men cleaning gutter
  February 2, 1937
• 45.   Finished Slopes
  February 2, 1937
• 46.   Drain Wall
  February 2, 1937
• 47.   Construction materials
  February 4, 1937
• 48.   Rock embankment and stream
  February 4, 1937
• 49.   Bridge Construction
  February 4, 1937
• 50.   Bridge #9 construction
  February 4, 1937
• 51.   Looking back over bridge #5
  May 4, 1937
• 52.   Pine Creek Bridge #7
  May 25, 1937
• 53.   Cars crossing Pine Creek Bridge #7
  May 25, 1937
• 54.   Looking West from One of the Parking Areas South of Cumberland Knob
  April 27, 1938
• 55.   Overpass US 21
  May 19, 1939
• 56.   Foundation - Equipment storage and office building CCC job 142
  November 1939
• 57.   Parking at Cumberland Knob
  1940s
• 58.   Scene near Devil's Garden, Blue Ridge Parkway
  1940s
• 59.   Parking at Cumberland Knob
  1940s
• 60.   View from Fox Hunters Paradise in Cumberland Knob Area
  1940s
• 61.   Bridge and Car
  1940s
• 62.   Operator Sign (Lunch room, comfort station)
  July 10, 1942
• 63.   Operator Sign
  July 10, 1942
• 64.   Guard Wall Construction
  February 2, 1943
• 65.   Fox Hunters Paradise
  1946
• 66.   Blue Ridge Parkway near Sparta, N.C.
  June 1946
• 67.   Blue Ridge Parkway, Sec. 2-B
  June 1946
• 68.   Parkway near Devils Garden P.O.
  June 1946
• 69.   Cumberland Knob
  June 1946
• 70.   Section 2A, N.C.
  June 1946
• 71.   Attempt of motorist to detour snowdrift
  March 1947
• 72.   Removal of Car from Snowdrift by Wrecker
  March 1947
• 73.   Parkway motor road blocked with snow, Motorist stalled, Damage to shoulder and slope
  March 1947
• 74.   New Access Sign Location Erected May 1949
  June 30, 1949
• 75.   Parking on average weekday
  July 1956
• 76.   Scene near Devil's Garden
  October 1956
• 77.   Bluffs Dist. Us 21 South
  August 1974
• 78.   Equipment storage and office bldg. Bldg #94
  February 1976
• 79.   Equipment storage and office bldg. Bldg #94
  February 1976
• 80.   Equipment storage and office bldg. Bldg #94
  February 1976
• 81.   Scenery
  1977
• 82.   Scenery
  1977
• 83.   Campground
  Summer 1977

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