"Bottomless Pit" and "Bridge of Sighs", No. 19 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

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"

Chas. Waldack

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

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Harold Allen