The water clock – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The water clock, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Water Clock is one of the named features that visitors to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky were taught to look for, and this card records it as a stop on the cave tour. Its name suggests the steady drip of water that shapes the formation and gives it a rhythm, a quality that guides often pointed out to visitors. This view is number 11 in a series of Mammoth Cave stereographs, cards meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave viewers a three-dimensional sense of the cave's passages and stone. Around 1900, such cards were a common way for people far from Kentucky to experience the cave's dramatic scenery.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph silver printing out paper. |
| Notes | D18297 U.S. Copyright Office. Part of series: Mammoth Cave and Vicinity. No. 11. Copyright by Ben Hains. Title from item. · Thum M. (Mandeville). |
| Subjects | Caves--Kentucky--1900. Mammoth Cave (Ky.)--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,352 × 2,524 px · prints to 15 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09723_Thewaterclock |
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