Group Photograph, Umbrella Rock

Postcard

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Picnooga

2020.173.001 Recto: Postcard of group of women sitting on Umbrella Rock
2020.173.001 Recto

Postcard of group of women sitting on Umbrella Rock

Name/Title

Group Photograph, Umbrella Rock

Entry/Object ID

2020.173.001

Description

A postcard with the front showing a group of five young people posing on Umbrella Rock atop Lookout Mountain. A sign at the bottom left describes The Battle of Wauhatchie that took place in the valley below. The group are all wearing similar knee-length pants Perched atop Point Lookout, Umbrella Rock is one of the most famous locations in the Chattanooga area. This unusual geological formation consists of several large stones topped by a large, flat slab. The rock has hosted innumerable visitors over the years, perhaps most famously Ulysses S. Grant. Formerly a popular location for photographs, erosion has made it unstable, and it is now closed to the public.

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Umbrella Rock, Point Lookout, Point Park, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Collection

Lookout Mountain Collection

Postcard Details

Date Published

circa 1925 - circa 1935

Copyright

Type of License

No Copyright - United States