"Grand Crossing", No. 25 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

Chas. Waldack American, active 1860s →

19th centuryphotographyphotograph

Date

1866

Medium

Albumen print, stereo

Dimensions

Each image: 7.6 × 7.7 cm (3 × 3 1/16 in.); Card: 8.5 × 17.5 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:

"GRAND CROSSING."
Is in "Pensacola Avenue." Here four large avenues branch off from the main one. The rocks here are completely covered with the names of visitors scratched on them. Grand Crossing is about two miles and a quarter from the entrance.

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