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Showing Western & Atlantic Depot and Crutchfield Hotel
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Description
Creator
Davis
,
Theodore
(1840-1894)
Title
Showing
Western
&
Atlantic
Depot
and
Crutchfield
Hotel
Alternate Title
Chattanooga in 1863 The Limestone Bridge near the W.& A. Depot
Date
1863
Genre
Drawings
Material/Technique
ink on paper
Description
Scene
depicting
a
city
(Chattanooga)
against
a
mountainous
landscape
.
Two
mounted
soldiers
and
three
standing
figures
are
shown
in
foreground
.
Two
long
buildings
,
possibly
both
depots
, are
shown
at
left
.
Signed
lower
left
:"Theo
R
.
Davis
1863
"
Historical note
Theodore
Davis
(1840-1894)
was a "
Special
Artist
" for
news
magazines
such
as
Harper's
Weekly
and
Leslie's
Illustrated
Weekly
,
illustrating
news
reports
from the
front
. He was in the
Chattanooga
area
in
1863
and
1864
. The
annotations
on this
drawing
mention
a
limestone
bridge
and the
Crutchfield
House
, as
well
as the
Western
&
Atlantic
Depot
. The
Western
&
Atlantic
Railroad
connected
Tennessee
to
Georgia
at
Chattanooga
.
Subject
United
States--History--Civil
War
,
1861-1865—Railroads;United
States--History--Civil
War
,
1861-1865--Pictorial
works
Theme
Visualizing the War
Story
Orlando Poe
Geographic Location
United
States
--
Tennessee
--
Chattanooga
Time period
1860-1869
Language
eng
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
.
Identifier
1991.044.004
Type
Still
image
Format
image/jp2
Contributing Institution
Chattanooga History Center
Digital Publisher
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file
shades3/shades_chc_0004.tif
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