GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK - Gatlinburg, Tennessee
The bill to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was signed by President Coolidge on May 22, 1926. In 1928 the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial donated $5,000,000 to augment and complete the fund for purchasing the required amount of acreage. This gift helped smooth out legal difficulties and litigations with lumber companies. The suit to condemn a single tract of 38,288 acres owned by one company was the largest of its kind ever filed in the United States. In 1930 two land grants of 158,876 acres and 138,843 acres were transferred to the Government, and in the following year the park was officially established. - Tennessee, A Guide to The State (WPA, 1939)
Souvenir photograph sets were popular when cameras were still extremely expensive, so most households didn’t own a camera. When traveling you could pick up a set of souvenir photographs to remember your trip, put in your photo album or possibly mail the photos to friends and relatives to show off your destination vacation.
Editors note: Every first Friday of the month we will be featuring one of Cait Kovac’s Found Photos compilations. Cait finds these in antique stores, flea markets and other random places. She then scans them to post on her Tumblr. And now she’s sharing them with us!
Cait Kovac is a state guide to California and an at-large guide to the west. She grew up in upstate New York, lived in Atlanta the last six years and is now settling into her new home in Silicon Valley. She spends her time taking photographs and going on adventures with her boyfriend, Shawn, and their two dogs Matilda and Zeke. You can follow her at caitkovac.tumblr.com and see more of her work at caitkovac.com.
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