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Description:

A trail maintainer along the Appalachian Trail in 1932. The caption on the reverse of this photograph reads: "Homeward bound, with her pack and pruning shears after a day's work on the Appalachian Trail." Trail volunteers like this young woman were, and remain, essential to the building and maintaining of the Appalachian Trail.

Collection:

Trail Clubs


Date:

1932

Creator:

Morgan Wickersham

Subject

Trail Clubs

Contributor

Mills Kelly

Format

Black and white photograph

Source:

Appalachian Trail Conservancy Archives

Rights

All rights reserved.

Citation

Morgan Wickersham, “Trail Volunteer (1932),” Appalachian Trail Histories, accessed November 5, 2024, https://appalachiantrailhistory.org/items/show/641.
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