- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Stone Mountain Carving
- Contributor to Resource:
- Photograph by Mark Griffin, Wikimedia
- Date of Original:
- 2006-07-01
- Subject:
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.)
Granite--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Horses--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Carving (Decorative arts)--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Confederate States of America--Officials and employees
Mountains--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Fountains--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Ponds--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Presidents--Confederate States of America
Generals--Confederate States of America
Parks--Georgia--Stone Mountain
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The carving on Stone Mountain depicts the Confederate icons Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and Jefferson Davis. Commissioned by the president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the sculptor Gutzon Borglum began work on the relief in 1915. He was fired in 1925, and Augustus Lukeman completed the carving.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/exhibition/seeing-georgia-changing-visions-of-tourism-in-the-modern-south/stone-mountain-memorial-closeup_001-2/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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