Group Photograph, Umbrella Rock, Hardie Bros

Photograph

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Picnooga

Recto

Recto

Name/Title

Group Photograph, Umbrella Rock, Hardie Bros

Entry/Object ID

2020.270.001

Description

A photograph mounted on a cabinet card showing a group seventeen on Umbrella Rock, atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. 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.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Unidentified

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

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

Made/Created

Studio

Hardie Brothers

Date made

circa 1890 - circa 1900

Place

* Untyped Place

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

Copyright

Type of License

No Copyright - United States