Chattanooga Tennessee (vicinity). View of Umbrella Rock Lookout Mountain – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Chattanooga Tennessee (vicinity). View of Umbrella Rock Lookout Mountain, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Chattanooga Tennessee (vicinity). View of Umbrella Rock Lookout Mountain
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Umbrella Rock is a large sandstone formation on Lookout Mountain, the ridge overlooking Chattanooga, and this view records it as a stereograph, two nearly identical glass negatives meant to be seen together through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The pair was made in 1864, about a year after Union forces took the mountain during the Chattanooga campaign of late 1863. The record once credited the photographer Alexander Gardner, whose name is now treated as uncertain for this image, but the wet collodion process used here was standard for Civil War-era photographers working in the field.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Lookout Mountain Umbrella Rock. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,689 × 5,120 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47724 |
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