{"id":2461,"date":"2012-07-31T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T12:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2013-09-25T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:38:50","slug":"a-rare-and-nice-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2012\/07\/31\/a-rare-and-nice-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Lookout Mountain Guide Book Acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While attending the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennaba.org\/\"> Tennessee Antiquarian Book Fair<\/a> last week, I made a good find that I couldn&#8217;t pass up.\u00a0 It was a locally-produced guide to <strong>Lookout Mountain<\/strong>, from 1892.\u00a0 Research shows this particular little guide is fairly rare, with no libraries in Tennessee\u00a0 currently listing it in their collections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-hardies-guide-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2465 aligncenter\" title=\"Hardie's Guide\" alt=\"Hardie's Guide\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2012\/07\/Hardies-Guide11-260x300.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hardie&#8217;s Illustrated Guide of Lookout Mountain<\/em><\/strong> was published in Chattanooga by the <strong>Hardie Brothers<\/strong>, who operated a photography studio on Lookout Mountain in the last 1900s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Inside are over two dozen drawings (apparently taken from photographs) of\u00a0\u00a0 various points of interest on and close to Lookout Mountain, such as <strong>Lula Falls<\/strong> (with an older spelling), and the old <strong>Point Hotel<\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-hardies-guide-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2467 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px\" title=\"Hardie's Guide\" alt=\"Hardie's Guide\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2012\/07\/Hardies-Guide31-300x238.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are always looking for items of local interest, as this fits into our collecting scope.\u00a0 We hope to digitize all of the pictures from this small booklet sometime in the future.\u00a0 Come on by for a closer look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attending the Tennessee Antiquarian Book Fair last week, I made a good find that I couldn&#8217;t pass up.\u00a0 It was a locally-produced guide to Lookout Mountain, from 1892.\u00a0 Research shows this particular little guide is fairly rare, with no libraries in Tennessee\u00a0 currently listing it in their collections. 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