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• 1.   Road construction
  July 8, 1936
• 2.   NC #104 Relocation, Sec 2M Parkway Access Drive
  July 25, 1936
• 3.   Road Construction
  August 14, 1936
• 4.   Road View
  August 14, 1936
• 5.   Road Construction
  August 14, 1936
• 6.   Tunnel Construction
  August 14, 1936
• 7.   Machinery and Hillside
  August 14, 1936
• 8.   Super Reliance Grader "Caterpillar"
  August 14, 1936
• 9.   Road View
  August 14, 1936
• 10.   Road View
  August 14, 1936
• 11.   Road Construction
  August 14, 1936
• 12.   East along 104 NC Station 415
  August 14, 1936
• 13.   Toe Ditch
  August 14, 1936
• 14.   Road Construction
  August 14, 1936
• 15.   Road Construction
  August 14, 1936
• 16.   View of Parkway
  August 17, 1936
• 17.   View of Mountains
  August 17, 1936
• 18.   Toe Ditch
  August 17, 1936
• 19.   Proposed Road Construction Site
  August 17, 1936
• 20.   Toe Ditch
  August 17, 1936
• 21.   Pipeline
  August 17, 1936
• 22.   Construction Equipment
  August 17, 1936
• 23.   Road construction
  August 24, 1936
• 24.   Road construction
  August 24, 1936
• 25.   Road construction
  September 24, 1936
• 26.   Narrow Mountain Road
  September 25, 1936
• 27.   Mountain Slope Road
  September 25, 1936
• 28.   Proposed Tunnel 1 End
  September 25, 1936
• 29.   Bulldozers and Construction
  September 25, 1936
• 30.   Rock face and Side Slope
  September 25, 1936
• 31.   Part Road Grade
  September 25, 1936
• 32.   Cleared Roadway
  September 25, 1936
• 33.   Road Grade and Chestnut Tree
  September 25, 1936
• 34.   Road grading
  September 25, 1936
• 35.   Near Entrance Tunnel #1
  September 25, 1936
• 36.   Rock Wall
  September 25, 1936
• 37.   Mountain Slope
  November 6, 1936
• 38.   Excavation for Masonry Wall
  November 6, 1936
• 39.   Sample Wall
  November 6, 1936
• 40.   Retaining Wall Construction
  November 6, 1936
• 41.   Steep Mountain Slope
  November 6, 1936
• 42.   Mountain Slope
  November 6, 1936
• 43.   Cemented Rock Wall
  November 9, 1936
• 44.   Road Construction
  November 9, 1936
• 45.   Road Through Rock
  November 9, 1936
• 46.   Blacksmith Shop
  November 9, 1936
• 47.   Road on Cliffside
  November 9, 1936
• 48.   Through Rough Rock
  December 14, 1936
• 49.   North Tunnel Portal
  December 14, 1936
• 50.   South Tunnel Entrance
  December 14, 1936
• 51.   Proposed Line
  December 14, 1936
• 52.   Shovel and Tractor
  December 15, 1936
• 53.   Excavation Cut
  December 15, 1936
• 54.   Rough Road
  December 15, 1936
• 55.   Trail
  December 15, 1936
• 56.   Cleared Path
  December 15, 1936
• 57.   Wagon Drill
  December 15, 1936
• 58.   Construction Slope
  December 15, 1936
• 59.   View of road
  February 8, 1937
• 60.   Road and rock pile
  February 8, 1937
• 61.   Retaining Wall
  February 8, 1937
• 62.   Rock cut and tunnel
  February 8, 1937
• 63.   Road and tunnel
  February 8, 1937
• 64.   View of road
  February 8, 1937
• 65.   Retaining Wall
  February 10, 1937
• 66.   Cement stone wall
  February 10, 1937
• 67.   Ahead along line
  February 10, 1937
• 68.   Cleared ridge
  February 10, 1937
• 69.   Looking Through Tunnel #1
  April 22, 1937
• 70.   Tunnel Construction
  April 22, 1937
• 71.   View of Road Above Tunnel #2
  April 22, 1937
• 72.   Masonry Wall Building
  April 22, 1937
• 73.   Loading Rock at Retaining Wall
  April 22, 1937
• 74.   Completed Cement Retaining Wall
  April 22, 1937
• 75.   Portal To Tunnel #1
  April 22, 1937
• 76.   Drill Operation
  April 22, 1937
• 77.   Construction of Tunnel #2
  April 22, 1937
• 78.   North Through Tunnel #1
  April 22, 1937
• 79.   Looking North Through Tunnel #2
  April 22, 1937
• 80.   Construction on Cement Retaining Wall
  April 22, 1937
• 81.   Retaining Wall Looking North
  April 22, 1937
• 82.   Linn Tractor dumping
  April 23, 1937
• 83.   Rough grade cut
  April 23, 1937
• 84.   wagon drilling
  April 23, 1937
• 85.   View of Rock Cut
  April 23, 1937
• 86.   Rock shot
  April 23, 1937
• 87.   Center line on Tunnel #1
  April 27, 1937
• 88.   Facing North from Masonry Wall
  May 29, 1937
• 89.   Detail of surrounding rocks
  May 29, 1937
• 90.   Top View of Masonry Wall
  May 29, 1937
• 91.   South End of Tunnel 2
  August 4, 1937
• 92.   South End of Tunnel 1
  August 4, 1937
• 93.   North Entrance of Tunnel 1
  August 4, 1937
• 94.   Quarry Operation for Masonry Material
  August 5, 1937
• 95.   Right of "North Along Rough Grade at 581-50"
  August 5, 1937
• 96.   Partially Built Retaining Wall at 537
  August 5, 1937
• 97.   North Along Rough Grade at 581-50
  August 5, 1937
• 98.   Rock Slide at 576
  August 5, 1937
• 99.   Rough grade road
  September 9, 1937
• 100.   Deep Rock Cut
  September 9, 1937
• 101.   South Entrance Tunnel #1
  September 9, 1937
• 102.   Hoist On A Fordson Tractor
  September 9, 1937
• 103.   Crushing Plant
  September 9, 1937
• 104.   Fill Slide
  September 9, 1937
• 105.   Retaining Wall
  October 15, 1937
• 106.   Men Grading Slope
  October 15, 1937
• 107.   Partially Worked Gradient
  October 15, 1937
• 108.   Inside of a Tunnel
  October 15, 1937
• 109.   Tunnel #2
  October 15, 1937
• 110.   Tunnel entrance and culvert headwall
  October 15, 1937
• 111.   Construction - Crusher
  October 21, 1937
• 112.   Mountainside
  November 24, 1937
• 113.   View of Route 104
  November 24, 1937
• 114.   Inside Tunnel #2
  November 24, 1937
• 115.   Private Residues in Forest Areas
  1938
• 116.   View of road grade
  January 24, 1939
• 117.   Cut at Station 277
  February 27, 1939
• 118.   Foundation for wall
  February 27, 1939
• 119.   Cleared path
  March 31, 1939
• 120.   Wall Site
  March 31, 1939
• 121.   Cleared path
  March 31, 1939
• 122.   New Cut slope
  April 29, 1939
• 123.   Wall Excavation
  May 3, 1939
• 124.   Road Construction
  May 11, 1939
• 125.   Rock Cut at Station 123-50
  May 24, 1939
• 126.   Workers and wall construction
  May 24, 1939
• 127.   Rock Drilling
  May 24, 1939
• 128.   View of road
  August 3, 1939
• 129.   Rock cut
  August 8, 1939
• 130.   View of road
  August 8, 1939
• 131.   View of road
  August 8, 1939
• 132.   Workers at landslide
  November 7, 1939
• 133.   Grade Separation - N.C. Rte. 104 Part 1 of 3
  June 1940
• 134.   Grade Separation - N.C. Rte. 104: Section and Details Part 3
  June 1940
• 135.   Grade Separation - N.C. Rte. 104 Part 2
  June 1940
• 136.   Gutter
  June 12, 1940
• 137.   Washed Out Fill
  August 16, 1940
• 138.   Overpass at Buck Creek Gap
  January 21, 1941
• 139.   Rock Wall
  February 18, 1941
• 140.   Rock Wall
  February 18, 1941
• 141.   Overpass at Buck Creek Gap
  February 18, 1941
• 142.   Rock Wall
  February 18, 1941
• 143.   Trench
  March 28, 1941
• 144.   Overpass Structure, Section 2M
  January 1942
• 145.   Rock Embankment
  April 10, 1942
• 146.   Rock Embankment
  April 10, 1942
• 147.   Fill Slope where Slide Continues, Post Construction
  May 6, 1942
• 148.   Removing Rock Slide
  July 7, 1942
• 149.   Spreading Calcium Chloride
  July 7, 1942
• 150.   Guard post placed by post construction
  September 9, 1942
• 151.   Parkway crossing county road
  October 22, 1942

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