Description
Text printed on reverse of stereocard:
"BOTTOMLESS PIT" AND "BRIDGE OF SIGNS."
Are on the main route to "Echo River" and a mile and a half from the entrance. The pit is of an immense depth and over it is thrown a substantial wooden bridge, across which visitors pass in the long route and towards "Pensacola Avenue." The pit presents a sight of awful sublimity when its steep sides are lighted up by the guide.
"Bottomless Pit" and "Bridge of Sighs", No. 19 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"
1866
Accession Number
199727
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 7.8 × 7.6 cm (3 1/8 × 3 in.); Card: 8.5 × 17.5 cm (3 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
photography
Credit Line
Gift of Harold Allen
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