Postcard, Point Hotel

Postcard

Picnooga

2023.013.002 Recto

Postcard showing the Point hotel and Lookout Mountain with the Tennessee River and Chattanooga in the background

Name/Title

Postcard, Point Hotel

Entry/Object ID

2023.013.002

Description

Color postcard of the Point Hotel off of Point Lookout. The view shows the Point Hotel rear and side façade with Lookout Mountain behind it. Four of the hotel's porches are visible as is the flat roof of the hotel. Moccasin Bend is seen in the foreground with the Tennessee River surrounding it. The postcard is labeled "CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Point Lookout and Hotel, Lookout Mountain" in clue in the white gutter at the bottom of the card. "With love, Elizabeth" is written in black ink at right. The information on the rear reads "POINT LOOKOUT AND HOTEL, LOOKOUT | MOUNTAIN. Lookout Mountain, 2200 feet above the sea | level ranks as one of the "show places: of America. | There are many beautiful, grand and inspiring views from the | "Point", and here is located the Point Hotel, erected in 1887. | On Nov. 24 th 1863, the famous "Battle above the Clouds" | was fought on the mountain." The postcard was printed in Germany by Raphael Tuck & Sons. The postcard has their logo on the back in brown ink.

Subject Person/Organization

Point Hotel

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Collection

Postcard Collection

Postcard Details

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Germany

Date Published

circa 1887

Copyright

Restrictions

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