- Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection (Georgia Archives)
- Title:
- Stone Mountain - Atlanta, Georgia
- Creator:
- Atlanta News Agency
- Publisher:
- Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives; Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1979
- Subject:
- Stone Mountain (Ga.)--Aerial views
Mountains--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Buildings--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Lakes--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Stone Mountain - A monumental memorial to the Confederacy is carved on the side of the mountain depicting the heroic figures of General Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall Jackson and the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. Stone Mountain, the world's greatest monolith, may properly be called the Eighth Wonder of the World. This huge rock has over 16,000,000,000 cubic feet of exposed granite. It is seven miles around the base and seven hundred feet higher than the surrounding plain.
- Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/postcard/id/520
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Extent:
- Visual image
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
