{"id":2159,"date":"2010-01-11T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.lib.utk.edu\/news\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:55:40","slug":"thompson-brothers-digital-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/thompson-brothers-digital-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky Mountain Photos in UT&#8217;s Thompson Brothers Digital Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/files\/2010\/01\/ThompsonBar.jpg\" alt=\"ThompsonBar\" width=\"198\" height=\"648\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2010\/01\/ThompsonBar.jpg 198w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2010\/01\/ThompsonBar-92x300.jpg 92w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2010\/01\/ThompsonBar-61x199.jpg 61w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2010\/01\/ThompsonBar-159x521.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>The UT Libraries\u2019 Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection has been expanded to include several hundred more historic photos of the Great Smoky Mountains. The images in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlc.lib.utk.edu\/thompson\/thompson_entry.htm\">Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collectio<\/a>n are the work of Jim and Robin Thompson, prominent photographers in Knoxville, Tennessee in the 1920s through &#8217;40s and pioneering photographers of the Smoky Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The Thompson Brothers collection of Smoky Mountain photographs ranks among the finest visual records of the mountains before the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The photographs -\u2013 shot with a large-format camera and showing amazing detail &#8212; include sweeping vistas and candid shots that document the local culture and economy before creation of the Park. Jim Thompson\u2019s spectacular photographs of the mountains played a critical role in convincing the U.S. Congress to make the Smokies the site of the first national park east of the Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>The collection includes hundreds of individual images of the Smokies garnered from UT Libraries\u2019 Special Collections and from the Calvin H. McClung Historical Collection of the Knox County Public Library, as well as Thompson photographs found in albums held by the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library Archives of Harvard University and Tutt Special Collections at Colorado College. The UT Libraries\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/refs\/smokies\/\">Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project<\/a> and Digital Library Initiatives spent more than three years gathering, digitizing, and creating records for the Thompson photos.<\/p>\n<p>The Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection is one of the UT Libraries\u2019 growing number of image collections documenting the history and culture of the Smoky Mountains. UT\u2019s digital collections are accessible at <a href=\"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/dli\/digcoll\/\">old.lib.utk.edu\/dli\/digcoll\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>For further information, contact <a href=\"mailto:abridges@utk.edu\">Anne Bridges<\/a> (974-0017) or <a href=\"mailto:kwise@utk.edu\">Ken Wise<\/a> (974-2359).<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Thompson brothers and their work in the 2008-2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/libdev\">Library Development Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UT Libraries\u2019 Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection has been expanded to include several hundred more historic photos of the Great Smoky Mountains. The images in the Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection are the work of Jim and Robin Thompson, prominent photographers in Knoxville, Tennessee in the 1920s through &#8217;40s and pioneering photographers of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/thompson-brothers-digital-collection\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Smoky Mountain Photos in UT&#039;s Thompson Brothers Digital Collection - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2010\/01\/thompson-brothers-digital-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smoky Mountain Photos in UT&#039;s Thompson Brothers Digital Collection - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UT Libraries\u2019 Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection has been expanded to include several hundred more historic photos of the Great Smoky Mountains. 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