View from "Bridge of Sighs", No. 20 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

Chas. Waldack American, active 1860s →

19th centuryphotographyphotograph

Date

1866

Medium

Albumen print, stereo

Dimensions

Each image: 7.8 × 7.6 cm (3 1/8 × 3 in.); Card: 8.6 × 17.5 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Harold Allen

Text printed on reverse of stereocard:

VIEW FROM "BRIDGE OF SIGNS"

Shows a part of Shelby's Dome overhanging the terrible pit. It is wild and dreary beyond conception. The dark avenue to the right is inaccessible to human footsteps, that is supposed to lead a vast distance further into the bowels of the earth.

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