"Wandering Willie's Spring", No. 12 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views" — Art Hub

Chas. Waldack American, active 1860s

"Wandering Willie's Spring", No. 12 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

INV-1976

Chas. Waldack American, active 1860s1866

"Wandering Willie's Spring", No. 12 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

Chas. Waldack American, active 1860s →

19th centuryphotographyphotograph

Date

1866

Medium

Albumen print, stereo

Dimensions

Each image: 7.5 × 7.7 cm (3 × 3 1/16 in.); Card: 8.4 × 17.5 cm (3 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Harold Allen

Text printed on reverse of stereocard:

"WANDERING WILLIE'S SPRING," is a small rill of water trickling down from the roof and the wall of rock on the left hand side of the Main Cave beyond the "Rotunda" and "Methodist Church." It is named after a country violinist who wandered away from his party, had his lamp extinguished and was found lying asleep beside the spring. On the left will be observed some names of visitors cut on the rock. The spring is about half a mile from the entrance.

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