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Tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Asheville, North Carolina, 1957

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Summary:View of a tunnel, looking out from the mouth of another tunnel, on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Asheville, North Carolina, 1957. Caption reads: "Tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Asheville, North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Parkway section between Asheville and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, is the most spectacular section of the Parkway. It traverses the highest mountain range, the Black Mountains, in Eastern United States. Photographed in Natural Color by Walter Cline." Postcard number: S5715-4, AM 12.
Creator:Cline, Walter Matson, 1914-1984
Provider:W.M. Cline Company
Century:1901-2000
Place of origin – Continent:North America
Place of origin – Country:United States of America
Place of origin – Region:Tennessee
Place of origin – Settlement:Chattanooga
Temporal subject: 1951-1960
Geographical subject – Continent:North America
Geographical subject – Country:United States of America
Geographical subject – Region:North Carolina
Geographical subject – Settlement:Asheville
Topical subjects:Mountains
Tunnels
Parkways
Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)
Genre:Postcards
ArchivesUM location:Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection
  • series North Carolina
  • box 1
  • folder General-Blue Ridge Parkways & Mountains
Repository:National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection
Browse terms:Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places
Copyright holder:Unknown
Collection:National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection
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