University of North Carolina at Asheville
D. H. Ramsey Library
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Box 3 - Folder 63 - Blue Ridge Parkway tourist leaflets & guides
(See also Folder 61, maps and Folder 29, photo and press kit.)
Box Folder Item I.D. Description Thumbnail
3 63 1 Guide, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia-North Carolina, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949. Includes photographs, a description of the Parkway, maps, and sights along the route
    2 Travel newsletter, The Stephens Press, (1965). Shows visitor numbers for a number of parks and attractions in N.C. and VA.
    3 Promotional leaflet "The Blue Ridge Parkway", The Blue Ridge Parkway Association, (1964). Includes a map of the Parkway, a description of the Parkway, a listing of accommodations in towns along the route and four color photographs [2 copies]

[See box 4, item 14b where the leaflet forms part of a membership package, and Box 3, folder 29, for a press kit containing a similar leaflet from 1971]
    4 Blue Ridge Parkway Association, membership information. N.D. [2 copies, with slightly different printing. Unclear if they are from different years or variations from the same year  (printer's proofs?)]
    5 Leaflet, Guest accommodations on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia-North Carolina, National Park Concessions, Inc. N.D.
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Center
    6 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia-North Carolina, National Park Concessions, Inc. N.D.[Similar to #5, but color photographs and style suggest a later printing.]
    7 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia-North Carolina, United States Department of the Interior, National Parks Services, various dates.

Three leaflets describing the route of the Blue Ridge Parkway, including interpretive facilities, recreation areas, food and service stations. Dated 1958, 1966 and undated, with style and photograph variations between each publication. [2 copies except undated.]
1958


1966


Undated
    8 Guidebook, Blue Ridge Parkway Virginia-North Carolina, 85 natural color views, 34 pages, Aerial Photography Services, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 1970