Umbrella Rock

Photograph

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Picnooga

2020.266.001 Recto: 19 men sitting on Umbrella Rock. The majority of whom are wearing jodhpur pants, knee boots, and leather jackets. Some are wearing goggles and giggles hat
2020.266.001 Recto

19 men sitting on Umbrella Rock. The majority of whom are wearing jodhpur pants, knee boots, and leather jackets. Some are wearing goggles and giggles hat

Name/Title

Umbrella Rock

Entry/Object ID

2020.266.001

Description

A photograph of twenty sitting men (possibly pilots) on Umbrella Rock atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. The verso is dated 1931 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

Type of Photograph

Gelatin Print - silver bromide

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

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

Collection

Lookout Mountain Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1931

Copyright

Restrictions

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