Pulpit Rock and Umbrella Rock

Postcard

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Picnooga

2020.472.001 Recto: Black and white photograph postcard showing a woman in white walking toward Umbrella Rock with Pulpit Rock in the right, foreground
2020.472.001 Recto

Black and white photograph postcard showing a woman in white walking toward Umbrella Rock with Pulpit Rock in the right, foreground

Name/Title

Pulpit Rock and Umbrella Rock

Entry/Object ID

2020.472.001

Description

A gelatin-silver printed postcard with the front showing a unique perspective of Umbrella Rock and its surroundings, including a wooden box camera on its tripod positioned to take portraits of visitors to the rock. To the right is the side of Pulpit Rock. The sign below Umbrella Rock describes the Battle of Wauhatchie that took place in the valley below. 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.

Subject Place

Location

Umbrella Rock, Point Park

City

Lookout Mountain

County

Walker County

State/Province

Georgia*

Country

United States of America

Collection

Lookout Mountain Collection

Postcard Details

Date Published

circa 1916

Copyright

Type of License

No Copyright - United States