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Brand/Publisher: Cartersville-Bartow County Convention and Visitors Bureau; Booth Western Art Museum; Etowah Valley Historical Society; Cartersville, Georgia, United States.
Item: Original promotional travel brochure for Allatoona Pass Battlefield in Cartersville, Georgia, highlighting the Civil War site along the Western and Atlantic Railroad and the nearby Booth Western Art Museum.
Front cover carries the Allatoona Pass Battlefield title over a Cartersville, Georgia subtitle and a collage of images including a contemporary reenactor, a historic photograph of the railroad cutting through the pass, and Don Troiani\'s Battle of Allatoona Pass painting reproduced from a 2002 oil on canvas.
Lower front panels feature logos for the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Booth Western Art Museum along with a caption crediting the battlefield painting and presenting the brochure as an introduction to the historic rail pass and associated museum exhibits.
Reverse side promotes area lodging near exit 288 off Interstate 75 with small locator maps of northwest Georgia showing the positions of Cartersville, Allatoona Pass, and major highways, above a large nighttime photograph of the Booth Western Art Museum building and prominent equestrian sculpture.
Copy on the back describes the Booth Western Art Museum collections, listing sections for western art, illustration and movie posters, presidential letters and portraits, contemporary Civil War art, a research library, and an interactive children\'s gallery, and explains that the Allatoona Battlefield site is owned by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and maintained with assistance from the Etowah Valley Historical Society, with hiking trails and interpretive signs available to visitors without an admission fee.
One interior spread presents portraits of Union General John M. Corse and General Samuel G. French, accompanied by narrative panels outlining troop movements in early October 1864, Sherman\'s telegraphed orders, French\'s dawn attack on the Union garrison, and the desperate struggle for control of the railroad cut at Allatoona Pass.
Center panels feature a simplified battlefield map with Lake Allatoona, the Western and Atlantic Railroad wartime route, defensive redoubts, artillery positions, signal station, township roads, the Clayton House, and present-day landmarks, together with then-and-now photographs of the pass and historic structures.
Opposite interior panels include an enlarged Civil War era photograph of Allatoona Pass by photographer George N. Barnard and a detailed history of the Battle of Allatoona Pass, explaining its importance to Sherman\'s Atlanta Campaign, casualty figures, the origin of the well-known Hold the fort phrase, and the later development of the area as a protected Civil War landscape.
Format and appearance: tall rack-size tri-fold brochure printed in blue, black, and full color on glossy paper, combining narrative battle history, maps, modern and archival photographs, and museum promotional text for visitors to Allatoona Pass Battlefield and Cartersville, Georgia.
Notes: Suitable for collectors of Civil War battlefield ephemera, Georgia travel literature, and promotional materials related to the Booth Western Art Museum and the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
