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Walker the Artist and Theodore Davis at work on Lookout Mountain; Civil War; Chattanooga (Tenn)

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Walker the Artist and Theodore Davis at work on Lookout Mountain; Civil War; Chattanooga (Tenn)

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File Name	shades_chm_0003.tif
Title	Walker the Artist and Theodore Davis at work on Lookout Mountain; Civil War; Chattanooga (Tenn)
Alternate Title	James Walker and Theodore Davis on Lookout Mountain
Date	ca. 1863-1864
Genre	Photographs
Description	Two seated artists work outside of a tent on a smoky hillside. A third figure chops wood at lower right.
Historical note	James Walker (1819-1889) and Theodore Davis (1840-1894) were "Special Artists" for news magazines such as Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, illustrating news reports from the front. Here, the artists are working on Lookout Mountain, the scene of "The Battle above the Clouds" in November, 1863.
Subject	Walker, James, 1819-1889; Davis, Theodore R., 1840-1894; Artists; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject (TGM)	Artists Mountains Tents
Theme	Visualizing the War The Persistence of Memory
Story	Orlando Poe Reunions and Tourism
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Time period	1860-1869
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 Chicago History Museum, http://www.chicagohs.org/.
Credit line	Chicago History Museum, notebook 4 CW189.16
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Contributing Institution	Chicago History Museum
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,29
Archival file	shades3/shades_chm_0003.tif