Rhododendron Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, circa 1940

Subjects: Forests & Trees National & State Parks
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Rhododendron Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, circa 1940, Standard News Agency, TN, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard — Back

About this postcard

A hiker in a yellow shirt and dark trousers walks a narrow trail that tunnels through a dense stand of blooming rhododendrons, their pink blossoms filling the foreground and framing the dark tree trunks. The card names the scene as the Rhododendron Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a park established in 1934 along the North Carolina–Tennessee border and famed for its spring displays of Catawba rhododendron. The photograph was taken by Thompsons of Knoxville, the Tennessee city that serves as a gateway to the park.

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PublisherStandard News Agency

C-13—Rhododendron Trail, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park PHOTO BY THOMPSONS, KNOXVILLE OB-H2464 --- The Rhododendron—one of Nature's most beautiful gifts—are to be found in great numbers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. June usually finds the purple-pink Rhododendron at its finest, and the peak of the great White flowering Rhododendron is mid-July. STANDARD NEWS AGENCY, KNOXVILLE, TENN. GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO "C.T. ART-COLORTONE" POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.) POST CARD PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE

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Publisher	Standard News Agency
Series	C-13
Condition	Good
Publisher	Standard News Agency, Knoxville, TN
Notes	Linen-textured stock with a white border; the scan is rotated 180 degrees (printed text runs upside down). Light edge and corner wear. No postmark; unused card. Divided-back linen-texture Curteich "C.T. Art-Colortone" post card with printed descriptive text; light soiling/toning on the cream stock, no handwriting.

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Rhododendron Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/rhododendron-trail-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-circa. Accessed October 25, 2026.