*Originally published in November 2015 It began in the 1970s when Dr. Jeff Brown, a professor of archaeology at UTC, popularized an idea of a long-forgotten city beneath the current street level of Downtown Chattanooga. The “Underground Chattanooga Concept” was primarily based on visual observations; the tops of obscured brick arches showing at street level, … Read more
It was 2015 when I was first introduced to the format of glass plate negatives. It started with one listed on eBay and eventually would lead to about five hundred moments of everyday life captured in the Chattanooga area from 1897 to about 1907. It was quite the triumph to stumble upon the images, especially … Read more
A few years back, when I had a blog, I published a post about five lost or undiscovered items that should be in Chattanooga collections. One was a photo of Ed Johnson, which a reader later found in a newspaper archive. So, yes, this post could have a similar impact. That photo was featured in … Read more
The legacy of Horace Maynard Brazelton (1877-1956) has been one of my labors of love over the past seven years. Once I ran into his work, I could not stop searching for it. What started as one or two specimens would increase and become more frequent until a few dozen or more were in the … Read more