Robert B. Swope Automobile Trip Scrapbook
name: label: Engineer
content: Swope, Robert Bricker, 1888-1968
label: Names
content: Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Agency : U.S.)
label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
place: label: Place
content: Kentucky
label: Place
content: North Carolina
label: Place
content: Tennessee
label: Place
content: Virginia
topic: label: Topic
content: Automobiles -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Automobile travel -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- U.S.A.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Keith R. Bailey, 1991.
creator: label: Engineer
content: Swope, Robert Bricker, 1888-1968
setName: label: See more items in
content: Robert B. Swope Automobile Trip Scrapbook
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .25 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-06-30-1935-09-26
label: Date
content: late 1935
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry, 2024.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1644
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Newsclippings
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into a single series for the scrapbook.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Joshua Insel, intern, 2025.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Newsclippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Collection consists of a travel scrapbook by Robert B. Swope, titled "Little Journeys in the Smoky Mountain Country," documenting a series of 13 automobile road trips in and around the Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia) during the summer of 1935. Includes maps marked with routes, typewritten journals, black and white photographs, and clippings from brochures.