FIRST FRIDAY FOUND PHOTOS - Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Lookout Mountain Incline Railway (round trip 40¢), operates between the street level and the summit of the mountain. Two electric cable cars run simultaneously, one ascending, one descending, at about 8 m.p.h. The present 4,750-foot incline, the third erected, was completed in 1897. -Tennessee: A Guide to The Volunteer State (WPA, 1939)
***
Souvenir photograph sets were popular when cameras were still extremely expensive, so most households didn’t own a camera. When traveling you could pick up a set of souvenir photographs to remember your trip, put in your photo album or possibly mail the photos to friends and relatives to show off your destination vacation.
Editors note: Today we’re thrilled to introduce what will be an ongoing regular feature - First Friday Found Photos. Every first Friday of the month we will be featuring one of Cait Kovac’s Found Photos compilations. Cait finds these in antique stores, flea markets and other random places. She then scans them to post on her Tumblr. And now she’s sharing them with us!
***
Cait Kovac is a state guide to California and an at-large guide to the west. She grew up in upstate New York, lived in Atlanta the last six years and is now settling into her new home in Silicon Valley. She spends her time taking photographs and going on adventures with her boyfriend, Shawn, and their two dogs Matilda and Zeke. You can follow her at caitkovac.tumblr.com and see more of her work at caitkovac.com.
Freelance photographer Stuart Palley has been chasing blazes for the past three years, documenting one of the most dramatic consequences of California’s extended drought.
