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1. Before seeding and planting (close-up)
20th Century
2. Before seeding and planting
1930s
3. View of road
1930s
4. View of road
1930s
5. View of road
1930s
6. Before seeding and planting
1930s
7. Hillside
1930s
8. Before bank sloping
1930s
9. Moving trees - CCC
1930s
10. Landscape View off of Blue Ridge Parkway
1930s
11. Landscape View off of Blue Ridge Parkway
1930s
12. Moving trees - CCC
1930s
13. Grandfather Mtn. Lumbering operations
September 1934
14. Grandfather Mtn. Lumbering operations
September 1934
15. Special Headwall, 10' x 7' R.C. Box
May 25, 1935
16. Special headwall 10' x 7' R.C. box
May 25, 1935
17. Devils Garden and Green Mountain Parorama
May 31, 1935
18. First Grading Contract
September 1935
19. Stripped area and top soil storage pile
November 26, 1935
20. Top soil stripping operations
November 26, 1935
21. General Ground Conditions Showing Stream Conditions
April 16, 1936
22. General ground conditions showing stream conditions
April 16, 1936
23. Picnic area before clearing operations
April 21, 1936
24. Special headwall, Type #1 10' x 7' Box
May 25, 1936
25. Log cribbing and check for erosion control
May 26, 1936
26. Log cribbing and check dams for erosion control
May 26, 1936
27. County road relocation and crossing
June 3, 1936
28. Completed Shuttle Trail, Looking Ahead
June 15, 1936
29. A Step Detail in Indian Grave Trail
July 14, 1936
30. Willow planted along channel change, 10 days after planting
August 13, 1936
31. Early Construction
August 20, 1936
32. Excavation for tree well
August 23, 1936
33. Bridge 10, site of construction
August 25, 1936
34. After stream improvement
August 26, 1936
35. Clearing for road and new laurel growth
September 1936
36. View of Rock cut looking south
September 1936
37. Proposed Route 18 Crossing
October 4, 1936
38. Looking back at cut and general damage
November 11, 1936
39. Rock formation 46' right
February 26, 1937
40. Grading at Benge
April 2, 1937
41. View of Rock Cut
April 23, 1937
42. Tree well
May 20, 1937
43. Tree well
May 20, 1937
44. Timber Cutting by M.C. Biggerstaff
May 27, 1937
45. Timber Cutting by M. C. Biggerstaff
May 27, 1937
46. Timber Cutting by M.C. iggerstaff
May 27, 1937
47. Timber Cutting by M.C. Biggerstaff
May 27, 1937
48. Man and a Horse Team
October 12, 1937
49. Team of Horses
October 12, 1937
50. Alignment near inlet large culvert
1938
51. Excavation for Special Footings - CSM Wall
June 1938
52. Proposed wall site
June 1938
53. Before grading. Tape used to show concave slope. Needs transition, overhand and wide rounding
July 25, 1938
54. After Cleanup of Excessive Overcast Material
November 29, 1938
55. High cuts thru wooded area. During selective cutting.
December 15, 1938
56. Pouring Concrete
March 25, 1939
57. Cleared path
March 31, 1939
58. Cleared path
March 31, 1939
59. Wall Site
March 31, 1939
60. New Cut slope
April 29, 1939
61. Road Construction
May 11, 1939
62. Rock Drilling
May 24, 1939
63. Rock Cut at Station 123-50
May 24, 1939
64. Rock cut
August 8, 1939
65. View of road
August 8, 1939
66. Earth and Rock cut before L.D. grading
October 6, 1939
67. Earth and Rock cut before L.D. grading
October 6, 1939
68. Cuts before L.D. grading
October 6, 1939
69. National Park Service Organizational Chart
May 1, 1940
70. Portion of Rock Cliff and overhand at proposed parking overlook
July 27, 1940
71. Road and Fill Wash
August 16, 1940
72. Stream Relocation
October 1, 1940
73. Stream Relocation
October 1, 1940
74. Seeding and staked mulch (in Bluff Park)
1941
75. Rock Wall
February 18, 1941
76. Rock Wall
February 18, 1941
77. Northwest bridge slope after seeding
October 1942
78. Tunnel #2. East Portal regular landscape development treatment will be sufficient
May 1943
79. Tunnel #1 East portal
May 1943
80. Tunnel #1. West portal. Regular landscape development will be sufficient. Grading and seeding complete
May 1943
81. Buffer Strip and Stump Removal, Wm. M. Shuffler Lease
Spring 1944
82. "Before picture" shows close-up of severe sheet erosion. "After picture" neg #5443
August 1944
83. From State Road Shoulder Left, Before Planting
October 29, 1947
84. After preparatory grading - before planting - looking north
October 29, 1947
85. Heeling in bed
November 1947
86. Shoulder and ditch prior to seeding
May 20, 1948
87. Top soiling prior to seeding
May 20, 1948
88. Discing on the Rocky Knob District
1950
89. Grading project
April 1, 1953
90. Surface mining operations
1955
91. Road Construction
August 3, 1955
92. Road Construction
August 23, 1955
93. Road Construction
October 12, 1955
94. Road Construction
May 21, 1956
95. Drainage Construction
June 5, 1956
96. Applying commercial fertilizer to Road Shoulders, Blue Ridge Parkway
March 24, 1958
97. Soil spreader on rt. shoulder headed north
June 19, 1959
98. Hydroseeder, Left on Parkway, Headed North
June 19, 1959
99. Lumbering
1960s
100. Atop Devil's Courthouse Nature Trail - Plant succession
July 1960
101. Mulching Seeded Slope - APW Program
May 9, 1963
102. Oral History Interview with Stanley Abbott, March 24, 1971
March 24, 1971
103. Grandfather Mtn. Progress
August 9, 1973
104. Grandfather Mtn. Construction
October 23, 1973
105. Trenches from Civil War
November 29, 1973
106. Trenches from Civil War
November 29, 1973
107. Strange Growth in Tree
April 30, 1974
108. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
109. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
110. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
111. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
112. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
113. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
114. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
115. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
116. Brush Clearing
August 8, 1974
117. Grandfather Mtn. Progress
October 1975
118. Civil War Earthworks
February 1976
119. Working on Grandfather Mt. Connector
August 31, 1976
120. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
121. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
122. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
123. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
124. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
125. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
126. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
127. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
128. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
129. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
130. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
131. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
132. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
133. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
134. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
135. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
136. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
137. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
138. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
139. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
140. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
141. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
142. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
143. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
144. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
145. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
146. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
147. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
148. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
149. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
150. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
151. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
152. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
153. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
154. Richland Balsam Trail - Repair and construction
December 1976
155. YACC Blog Trail
August 18, 1978
156. YACC Blog Trail
August 18, 1978
157. Construction at Grandfather
September 22, 1979
158. Vanishing Vistas (page 2 of 2)
January 24, 1993
159. Vanishing Vistas (page 1 of 2)
January 24, 1993
160. Oral History Interview with William Pruitt, June 14, 1996
June 14, 1996
161. Oral History Interview with Ted Pease, October 7, 1996
October 7, 1996
162. Oral History Interview with William Hooper, October 25, 1996
October 25, 1996
163. Oral History Interview with Ted Pease, November 5, 2000
November 5, 2000
164. Oral History Interview with William Hooper, January 6, 2001
January 6, 2001
165. Early Construction

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