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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
Archival file	shades11/shades_chc_0003b.tif