[Children at Lookout Mountain]
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Creator |
Linn, R(oyan). M. (d. 1872) |
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Title |
[Children at Lookout Mountain] |
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Alternate Title |
Children at Gallery Point Lookout |
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Date |
1860-1870 |
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Genre |
Photographs |
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Material/Technique |
carte-de-visite, albumen print |
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Description |
This photograph shows five children: four white boys varying in age from about 5 to 12 years old, and one African American boy, probably age 10 to 12, seated on a rock formation high above a wooded landscape. |
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Historical note |
This group of children are posed upon the "Gallery Point" lookout near the studio of Charles and Royan Linn, Chattanooga photographers whose Civil War and post-Civil War tourist portraits often depicted their subjects next to dramatic vistas of Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee river valley below. |
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Subject |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans |
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Theme |
The Persistence of Memory
Visualizing the War |
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Story |
Orlando Poe
Reunions and Tourism |
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Geographic Location |
United States -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga |
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Time period |
1860-1869 |
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Language |
eng |
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Contributing Institution |
Library of Congress |
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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 Library of Congress. |
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Identifier |
ppmsca-10986 |
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Credit line |
Library of Congress, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs |
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Digital Publisher |
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University |
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