"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.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
199727
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.