RPPC, Uncle Mark Thrash

Photograph

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Picnooga

2023.018.007 Recto: Black and white photograph of "Uncle" Mark Thrash
2023.018.007 Recto

Black and white photograph of "Uncle" Mark Thrash

Name/Title

RPPC, Uncle Mark Thrash

Entry/Object ID

2023.018.007

Description

Black and white photograph developed on postcard paper showing "Uncle" Mark Thrash posing with the military frock coat given to him by General Ulysses S. Grant. The photograph shows Thrash, wearing a dark wool open coat with pins and medals on the lapel, wearing a white apron around his waist standing in front of a wood cabin at the Chickamauga National Battlefield. The coat he is holding is on a wire hanger and shows a pair of epaulettes with braided cord and eagles with wings spread. The photograph is labeled "'Uncle" MARK THRASH, age 116; born near | RIchmond, Virginia, Dec. 25 1820. Coat | shown presented him by General Grant. | Resides on Chickamauga National Park."

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Real Photo Postcard

Subject Person or Organization

Mark Thrash

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

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

Collection

The Brazelton Project Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1925 - circa 1942

Copyright

Restrictions

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