"Bottomless Pit" and "Bridge of Sighs", No. 19 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"
Chas. Waldack
1866
- 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.)
- Genre
- photography
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
19th centuryphotographyphotograph
About
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.
