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[Chickamauga Creek at Reed's bridge, Chickamauga, Ga.] – Historic Reproduction

[Chickamauga Creek at Reed's bridge, Chickamauga, Ga.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Chickamauga Creek at Reed's bridge, Chickamauga, Ga.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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: [Chickamauga Creek at Reed's bridge, Chickamauga, Ga.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Chickamauga Creek at Reed's bridge, Chickamauga, Ga.]

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Chickamauga Creek runs quietly past Reed's bridge in this view, a rural crossing in northwest Georgia that the Detroit Publishing Company recorded in glass-plate negative sometime between 1900 and 1915. The creek's name is tied to the Battle of Chickamauga, fought in September 1863 nearby, one of the bloodiest engagements of the Civil War in the Western Theater. By the early twentieth century the surrounding land had become part of a national military park, and photographers like those working for Detroit Publishing traveled widely to document such landmarks for tourists and postcard buyers. The image is a useful record of how the battlefield's waterways looked before the park's later development.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7099" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039513. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRivers. Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863. Battlefields.United States--Georgia--Chickamauga.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69170

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