"Bandit Hall", No. 30 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

Description

Text printed on reverse of stereocard:

"BANDIT HALL"
Is immediately above "Bacon Chamber" and at the commencement of Spark's Avenue which leads to "Mammoth Dome." Several unexplored avenues branch off here in every direction. The scene representions a party of "bandits" at dinner and as reviewed by the magnesium light exceeds in Romantic wilderness the most extravagant conceptions of Salvator Rosa.

"Bandit Hall", No. 30 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"

Chas. Waldack

1866

Accession Number

199730

Medium

Albumen print, stereo

Dimensions

Each image: 7.8 × 7.3 cm (3 1/8 × 2 7/8 in.); Card: 8.5 × 17 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

Classification

photography

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Harold Allen