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Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain – Historic Reproduction

Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain, c[between 1902 and 1920] — historic photograph
Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain, c[between 1902 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

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Looking out from Lookout Mountain, this view takes in the Tennessee River winding past Chattanooga, a city that had grown quickly after the railroads converged there and that was well known for its Civil War battles nearby. The picture is a Detroit Publishing Company view, made from a glass dry plate negative and copyrighted in 1902, part of a large commercial effort to document American towns, landscapes and scenic sites for postcards and travel books. Its date range runs to 1920, and the record gives no photographer's name, so the image is best read as a snapshot of the valley as tourists of the early twentieth century would have seen it.

Created / publishedc[between 1902 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Reproductions.
NotesCopy of negative D4-37026 C, copyrighted 1902 by Detroit Publishing Company. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015155. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsRivers.United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga.United States--Tennessee River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77788

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