"Deserted Chamber", No. 17 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

Chas. Waldack American, active 1860s →

19th centuryphotographyphotograph

Date

1866

Medium

Albumen print, stereo

Dimensions

Each image: 7.6 × 7.6 cm (3 × 3 in.); Card: 8.5 × 17.6 cm (3 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Harold Allen

Text printed on reverse of stereocard:

"DESERTED CHAMBER,"
Is a dreary looking room about 100 feet in length. The guide in the picture is entering the chamber from the narrow passage beneath the "Giant's Coffin." In "Wooden Bowl Chamber" adjoining this apartment a curious looking Indian bowl was found. The Indians used long reeds filled with deer's fat as torches to guide them through the cave.

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