View from the "Bridge of Sighs"
Series TitleMagnesium Light Views in Mammoth Cave
Artist
Charles Waldack
(American, 1828 - 1882)
Date1866
MediumAlbumen stereograph
DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 3 1/16 × 5 15/16 inches (7.78 × 15.08 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 inches (8.73 × 17.62 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 inches (8.73 × 17.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.179
SignedOn mount verso, lower left, green label, in black type: "Negative by Chas. Waldack, Cincinnati, O."
InscribedOn mount recto, left edge, in black type: "MAGNESIUM LIGHT VIEWS";
On mount recto, right edge, in black type: "IN MAMMOTH CAVE.";
On mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by PROCTOR & O'SHAUGHNESSY, in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the So. Dist. of Ohio.";
On mount verso, center, green label, in black type: "MAMMOTH CAVE VIEWS. / No. 20 / VIEW FROM "BRIDGE OF SIGHS." / Shows a part of Shelby's Dome overhanging the terrible pit. It is wild and dreary beyond con- / ception. 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. / PUBLISHED BY E. & H. ANTHONY & CO. / EMPORIUM OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS, CHROMOS AND ALBUMS, / 591 BROADWAY, OPPOSITE METROPOLITAN HOTEL, NEW YORK".
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Charles Waldack, "Photography in the Mammoth Cave by Magnesium Light," Philadelphia Photographer 3 (August 1866): 241-43; and 3 (December 1866): 359-63. See also "General Notes," Photographic Times and American Photographer 13:146 (February 1883): 57; Charles Waldack, Treatise on Photography (Cincinnati: H. Watkin, 1865); and Chris Howes, To Photograph Darkness: The History of Underground and Flash Photography (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989): 48-71, 300-02.
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