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Chattanooga Valley Landscape, right side
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File Name
shades_chc_0003b.tif
Creator
Davis
,
Theodore
Title
Chattanooga
Valley
Landscape
,
right
side
Alternate Title
Labeled Landscape of Chattanooga Valley
Date
after
1888
Genre
Drawings
Material/Technique
Ink on paper
Description
Ink
drawing
of the
sweep
of
Tennessee
River
including
Moccasin
Bend
.
Some
locations
are
labeled
across
the
top
of the
sheet
. The
labels
,
left
to
right
,
read
:
Raccoon
Range
,
Waldens
Ridge
,
Williams
I.
,
Brown's
Ferry
,
Moccasin
Point
,
Chattanooga
,
Sherman's
Crossing
,
Point
Hotel
. The
three-story
building
with
open
porches
at
right
has the
appearance
of a
rustic
hotel
. A
locomotive
heading
down
the
track
passes
directly
by the
hotel
.
Historical note
Although
both
Theodore
Davis
and
James
Walker
worked
in the
Chattanooga
and
Lookout
Mountain
area
as "
Special
Artists
" for
Harpers
Weekly
and
other
publications
during
the
war
, they also
created
and
published
images
in the
years
following
. The
Point
Hotel
, for
example
,
which
is
featured
at the
far
right
of this
image
, was
built
in
May
1888
as the
city's
incline
station
.
Subject
United
States
--
History
--
Civil
War
,
1861-1865
--
Art
and the
war
Theme
Visualizing the War
The Persistence of Memory
Story
Orlando Poe
Photographers and Special Artists
Reunions and Tourism
Tags
Artists
;
Railroad
locomotives
Geographic Location
United
States--Tennessee--Chattanooga
;
United
States--Tennessee--Lookout
Mountain
Time period
1880-89
Rights
Images
reproduced
on this
website
are
intended
for
individual
,
educational
use
only
. For
research
inquiries
about
specific
objects
or
requests
for
high
resolution
images
,
contact
the
Chattanooga
History
Center
.
Type
Still
image
Format
image/jp2
Contributing Institution
Chattanooga History Center
Digital Publisher
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL
http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,184
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