Chickamauga Celebration

Photograph

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Picnooga

2022.029.004 Recto: Black and white press photograph for the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga
2022.029.004 Recto

Black and white press photograph for the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga

Name/Title

Chickamauga Celebration

Entry/Object ID

2022.029.004

Description

A black and white publicity photograph from the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Chickamauga. The photograph, dated 8 September 1938, shows two young men carrying flags and one young woman dressed as a majorette. The teen boy on the far left is wearing a reproduction Union Army uniform and is holding a flag pole with an American flag on it. In the center is a young man in a Confederate Army reproduction uniform and carrying a pole with the Battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia on it. The majorette is on the right, leading the two teenagers, beating a drum strapped across her shoulders. She is wearing calf height white boots, a white short with a white, tailed top and a tall white shako with dark feathers at the top. The photograph has been touched up with pencil to make the photograph sharper. The rear reads: CL9514 "ACME PHOTO" CLEVELAND BUREAU GETTING IN STEP FOR CHICKAMAUGA CELEBRATION CHATTANOOGA, TENN.-- Flanked by Union and Confederate Standard Bearers, Helen Jones is shown beating the drum which is expected to call 500,000 people here from Sept. 16-25 to attend the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Miss Hones will be the theme girl of the mammoth open-air spectacle, "Drums of Dixie," and will serve as drum majoress for the Society of "40 and 8" of the American Legion during the anticipated visit of President Roosevelt on Sept. 20. A highlight of the celebration will be a re-enactment of the struggle in which the Confederacy scored an important victory. LIST 26 BUREAUS 9/8/38 YOUR CREDIT LINE MUST READ (ACME PHOTO)

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Helen Jones

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Chickamauga Battlefield, Chickamauga, Georgia, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Collection

Battlefield Monuments Collection

Made/Created

Studio

ACME Photos

Date made

9/8/1938

Time Period

20th Century

Copyright

Restrictions

Credit Chattanooga Historical Society Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only