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

Description

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.

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

Chas. Waldack

1866

Accession Number

199723

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.)

Classification

photography

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Harold Allen