Blue Ridge Parkway

1. Tunnel, Blue Ridge Parkway
20th Century

2. North Portal Tanbark Ridge Tunnel
1930s

3. Rock Embankment
1930s

4. Devils Garden Showing Steep Rocky Slopes
May 31, 1935

5. Rock cut near South Fork New River
February 21, 1936

6. Shovel loading
July 23, 1936

7. Drilling
July 23, 1936

8. Road Construction
August 14, 1936

9. Rock wall on side of road
August 23, 1936

10. Early Construction
August 24, 1936

11. View of Rock cut looking south
September 1936

12. View looking north along cut through Ice Rock section of Parkway near Bluffs Park area
September 11, 1936

13. Looking north along parkway showing rock outcropping
October 11, 1936

14. Road alignment looking back
October 13, 1936

15. Icy Rock Curve (2)
October 31, 1936

16. Icy Rock Cut (3)
October 31, 1936

17. Icy Rock Cut (4)
October 31, 1936

18. Icy Rock Curve (3)
October 31, 1936

19. Icy Rock Cut
October 31, 1936

20. Icy Rock Cut (2)
October 31, 1936

21. Road Through Rock
November 9, 1936

22. Crew working in cut
November 11, 1936

23. Ahead on Line
November 11, 1936

24. Station 258, Sec 2B Rock fill adjacent to hand-laid rock embankment
November 19, 1936

25. HPRE Face
December 5, 1936

26. Rock Cutting
December 5, 1936

27. Rock and Filling
December 7, 1936

28. Through Rough Rock
December 14, 1936

29. Tunnel Entrance
December 14, 1936

30. Rock cut and tunnel
February 8, 1937

31. Construction of Tunnel #2
April 22, 1937

32. North Through Tunnel #1
April 22, 1937

33. Looking Through Tunnel #1
April 22, 1937

34. Looking North Through Tunnel #2
April 22, 1937

35. Loading Rock at Retaining Wall
April 22, 1937

36. Retaining Wall Looking North
April 22, 1937

37. Tunnel Construction
April 22, 1937

38. Rock shot
April 23, 1937

39. View of Rock Cut
April 23, 1937

40. Center line on Tunnel #1
April 27, 1937

41. Hand Placed Rock
May 20, 1937

42. Icy Rock Curve
May 26, 1937

43. Detail of surrounding rocks
May 29, 1937

44. Cement Stone Gutter Along Rock Bank
July 28, 1937

45. South End of Tunnel 1
August 4, 1937

46. North Entrance of Tunnel 1
August 4, 1937

47. South End of Tunnel 2
August 4, 1937

48. North Along Rough Grade at 581-50
August 5, 1937

49. Quarry Operation for Masonry Material
August 5, 1937

50. Rock Slide at 576
August 5, 1937

51. Right of "North Along Rough Grade at 581-50"
August 5, 1937

52. Gutter Work along Rock Face
September 4, 1937

53. South Entrance Tunnel #1
September 9, 1937

54. Deep Rock Cut
September 9, 1937

55. Deep Rock Cut North
September 14, 1937

56. Gasoline Truck
September 14, 1937

57. Water Channel
October 11, 1937

58. Rock cut back of parking overlook
October 11, 1937

59. Dirt Road
October 11, 1937

60. Stone Hillside Work
October 11, 1937

61. Stone Gutter
October 11, 1937

62. Rock Cut - Devil's Garden
October 13, 1937

63. Looking through rock cut towards Ice Rock and Bluff
October 13, 1937

64. Ice Rock
November 20, 1937

65. Surfaced Road
November 20, 1937

66. Rock cut at Devil's Garden
1938

67. Large rock fragments over cast on lower of the rock cut as a result of overshooting
April 25, 1938

68. Lower side thru rock cut at 335 strewn with rock due to overshooting
April 25, 1938

69. Rock Overcast on Lower Side thru Cut, Before Cleanup
April 25, 1938

70. Looking Down the Back Side of thru Rock Cut
April 25, 1938

71. Rock overcast at lower side through rock cut
April 25, 1938

72. Example of careless blasting from cut
May 7, 1938

73. Big Cut at Devil's Garden
June 14, 1938

74. Excavating through rock for culvert
July 28, 1938

75. Cut before grading
October 2, 1938

76. Cut before grading
October 21, 1938

77. Cut before grading
October 21, 1938

78. Excessive overcast yardage from bench cut in rock, looking down from shoulder
December 1938

79. Before Grading
December 1938

80. North end of ice rock
January 16, 1939

81. Type 3 Drop Inlet
January 28, 1939

82. Rock Drilling
May 24, 1939

83. Rock Cut at Station 123-50
May 24, 1939

84. Rock cut
August 8, 1939

85. Wild Cat Overlook from Below
October 26, 1939

86. View looking south on parkway
1940

87. North portal Tanbark Ridge Tunnel
1940s

88. Guard wall (sample sec.) Show rear elevation of wall and rear batter.
August 1941

89. Tunnel No. 1 West Portal
April 28, 1943

90. Tunnel No. 1, East Portal Regular landscape development treatment will be sufficient Grading and seeding complete
May 1943

91. Typical ditch condition in thru cuts -- looking south
February 27, 1945

92. Tunnel
June 1946

93. Scenic Mountain View
October 1946

94. Rock Embankment
June 1947

95. Rock Wall, Project 2M2
February 27, 1951

96. Rock with Leaves
February 8, 1952

97. Road Construction
June 3, 1953

98. Cuts
May 1958

99. Cuts
May 1958

100. Parkway North of Bear-Wallow Gap
May 1959

101. Sign: 5 miles to Peaks of Otter
May 19, 1959

102. Looking North
June 1959

103. Peaks of Otter Sign
June 1959

104. Parkway with Waterrock Knob in background
October 1959

105. Slides
1970s

106. Rock and mud slides heavy rains
June 5, 1973

107. Rock Cut
March 1974

108. Rock Cut
March 1974

109. Construction at Grandfather
September 22, 1979

110. Slides

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