- Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection (Georgia Archives)
- Title:
- Stone Mountain, Where the Confederate Memorial is being Chiseled in Solid Granite, Atlanta, Ga.
- Creator:
- Imperial Post Card Company
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1979
- Subject:
- Mountains--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Memorials--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Carving (Decorative arts)--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Relief (Sculpture)--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain Memorial (Ga.)
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Monuments
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870--Monuments
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863--Monuments
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Stone Mountain, the eighth wonder of the universe, the largest solid piece of granite in the world. This piece of rock juts 1,600 feet high and is seven miles around its base. The Central Group as it will appear when carved on the mountain, on which work is now being rushed. General Lee, the Central Figure, will be as high as a sixteen story office building; other figures in proportion. Come and see the Wonder of the World.
- Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/postcard/id/821
- Additional Rights Information:
- Postcards published after 1923 may be covered by copyright. The Georgia Archives cannot provide permission to publish.
- Extent:
- Visual image
- Original Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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