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• 1.   A & W grader - grading overburden
  1930s
• 2.   Rock Embankment
  1930s
• 3.   Rocky Ledge
  1930s
• 4.   Channel Change at Bridge Site #10 (Section 2A)
  June 23, 1936
• 5.   Bridge Site #10 Prior to Construction
  June 23, 1936
• 6.   Drilling
  July 23, 1936
• 7.   Line Guides
  July 23, 1936
• 8.   Hand-laid rock embankment construction
  August 14, 1936
• 9.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  August 14, 1936
• 10.   View looking south along Ice Rock section of parkway
  September 11, 1936
• 11.   Rock face and Side Slope
  September 25, 1936
• 12.   Looking north along parkway showing rock outcropping
  October 11, 1936
• 13.   Hand-laid rock embankment after cleanup
  October 25, 1936
• 14.   Road Through Rock
  November 9, 1936
• 15.   View looking south across Ice Rock toward hand-laid rock embankmen
  November 11, 1936
• 16.   View looking north across Ice Rock area
  November 11, 1936
• 17.   Hand-placed rock embankment
  November 11, 1936
• 18.   Hand-placed rock embankment
  November 11, 1936
• 19.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  November 11, 1936
• 20.   Hand laid rock embankment showing small stone
  November 19, 1936
• 21.   Station 258 Sec 2B Hand-laid rock embankment
  November 19, 1936
• 22.   Station 258, Sec 2B Rock fill adjacent to hand-laid rock embankment
  November 19, 1936
• 23.   Station 258. Sec 2B Hand-laid rock embankment and rock fill being placed.
  November 19, 1936
• 24.   Close-up of hand-laid rock embankment
  November 19, 1936
• 25.   HPRE Face
  December 5, 1936
• 26.   Men at HPRE Wall
  December 5, 1936
• 27.   Rock Quarry
  December 5, 1936
• 28.   Rock Cutting
  December 5, 1936
• 29.   Typical riprap bank protection
  December 13, 1936
• 30.   Tunnel Entrance
  December 14, 1936
• 31.   Through Rough Rock
  December 14, 1936
• 32.   Rock embankment and stream
  February 4, 1937
• 33.   Rock embankment and culvert
  February 4, 1937
• 34.   Cement stone wall
  February 10, 1937
• 35.   Retaining Wall
  February 10, 1937
• 36.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  April 2, 1937
• 37.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  April 2, 1937
• 38.   South End of Quarry
  April 14, 1937
• 39.   Sharp Curve Construction
  April 14, 1937
• 40.   Loading Rock at Retaining Wall
  April 22, 1937
• 41.   View of Road Above Tunnel #2
  April 22, 1937
• 42.   View of Rock Cut
  April 23, 1937
• 43.   Hand Placed Rock
  May 20, 1937
• 44.   Icy Rock Curve
  May 26, 1937
• 45.   Hand Placed Rock embankment
  May 26, 1937
• 46.   Drilling and cleaning for stone wall at 255-35
  July 28, 1937
• 47.   Cement Stone Gutter Along Rock Bank
  July 28, 1937
• 48.   North Along Rough Grade at 581-50
  August 5, 1937
• 49.   Right of "North Along Rough Grade at 581-50"
  August 5, 1937
• 50.   Ice Rock Wall
  August 18, 1937
• 51.   Gutter Work along Rock Face
  September 4, 1937
• 52.   Icy Rock Curve
  September 4, 1937
• 53.   Retaining Wall and unfinished slope of Icy Rock
  September 4, 1937
• 54.   Rock cut back of parking overlook
  October 11, 1937
• 55.   Water Channel
  October 11, 1937
• 56.   Winding Road
  October 11, 1937
• 57.   Rock Embankment
  October 11, 1937
• 58.   Paving Gutters
  October 11, 1937
• 59.   Dirt Road
  October 11, 1937
• 60.   Surfaced Road
  November 20, 1937
• 61.   Ice Rock
  November 20, 1937
• 62.   Overcast Material
  December 15, 1937
• 63.   North portal of #1 tunnel
  April 19, 1938
• 64.   Before grading. A 3/4 to 1 slope with almost vertical overhang of soft rock
  July 25, 1938
• 65.   Cut before grading
  October 21, 1938
• 66.   Excessive overcast yardage from bench cut in rock
  December 1938
• 67.   Road Construction
  May 11, 1939
• 68.   Rock slide and scaling operations
  July 25, 1939
• 69.   Stream undermining Abutment from upstream
  August 1, 1939
• 70.   View of road
  August 3, 1939
• 71.   View looking south on parkway
  1940
• 72.   Heavy Slide
  1940
• 73.   Rock Embankment
  April 10, 1942
• 74.   Rock Embankment
  April 10, 1942
• 75.   Tunnel #1 West Portal
  April 28, 1943
• 76.   Tunnel #1. West portal. Regular landscape development will be sufficient. Grading and seeding complete
  May 1943
• 77.   Tunnel #2. East Portal regular landscape development treatment will be sufficient
  May 1943
• 78.   Regular landscape development treatment will be sufficient. Nothing done to date.
  May 1943
• 79.   Shovel Working Construction
  April 12, 1945
• 80.   Scenic Mountain View
  October 1946
• 81.   Rock Embankment
  June 1947
• 82.   Rocky Overhang
  April 1, 1954
• 83.   Parkway with Waterrock Knob in background
  October 1959
• 84.   Slides
  1970s
• 85.   Grandfather Mountain Construction
  1970s
• 86.   Rock and mud slides heavy rains
  June 5, 1973
• 87.   Mountain Climbing Practice
  July 28, 1973
• 88.   Mountain climbing practice
  July 28, 1973
• 89.   Mountain Climbing Practice
  July 28, 1973
• 90.   Exhibit "Appalachian Past"
  March 13, 1974
• 91.   Exhibit: 'Appalachian Past'
  March 13, 1974
• 92.   Grandfather Mountain Progress
  October 1975
• 93.   Grandfather Mtn. Progress
  October 1975
• 94.   Color Time Traffic
  October 13, 1978
• 95.   Color Time Traffic
  October 13, 1978

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