The Arm Chair – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: The Arm Chair, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Titled *The Arm Chair*, this stereograph is named for a rock formation in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where a natural stone seat caught the eye of visitors. Issued in 1892 as number 29 in a series of cave views, it was published by William I. Marshall and copyrighted by Ben Hains. Stereo cards like this were meant for a stereoscope, which merged two slightly offset photographs into one view with striking depth. The card's subjects of stalactites, stalagmites and cave passages show why the cave's mineral formations drew so much interest from late nineteenth-century tourists.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 40440 U.S. Copyright Office. Part of series: Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity. No. 29. Copyright by Ben Hains. Title from item. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Stalactites & stalagmites--Kentucky--1890-1900. Caves--Kentucky--1890-1900. Mammoth Cave (Ky.)--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,347 × 2,486 px · prints to 14 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09721_TheArmChair |
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