Linn Family. Photograph collection, 1863-1930: Finding aid
Item
- Finding Aid Title
- Linn Family. Photograph collection, 1863-1930: Finding aid
- Collection Title
- Linn Family photograph collection
- Date Created
- 1863-1930
- Extent
- 2.25 linear feet in 3 boxes (187 items)
- Creator
- Linn Family
- Biographical or Historical Note
- In 1863, Robert Linn and his brother James Birney Linn opened a photography studio on Point Lookout and began taking photographs of the mountain, Umbrella Rock, and the Union officers and army. They took large photographs, stereoviews, carte de visite, and tintypes. By the 1870s, their stereoviews of the mountain were very popular and widely known as army personnel went home and took their images with them. Robert Linn also had an interest in improving photography. Robert died in 1872 and his son George Thomas Linn continued to take photographs.
- Description
- Collection, chiefly photographic, of early Chattanooga photographers Robert M. Linn (?-1872), brother James Birney Linn (?-1922), and Robert's son, George Thomas Linn (1867-1941). Collection consists of 86 photographs of various views of the Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain area; Addition 1 is 85 stereoscopic pictures showing views of Lookout Mountain and vicinity taken by Robert Linn and James Birney Linn. Collection also includes a 1871 grant of Letters of Patent to Robert M. Linn for improvement in photographic filtering apparatus; a book of photographs of Lookout Mountain (9 views) by George Thomas Linn; notes of Robert and George Linn; letter from Hume Wilson to George Thomas Linn, dated Sept. 1, 1935.
- Identifier
- Acc. 129
- Language
- English
- Access
- Collection is open for access.
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