Wonderful masonry of ancient Incas, laid without tools or mortar, Triumph St., Cuzco, Peru – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Wonderful masonry of ancient Incas, laid without tools or mortar, Triumph St., Cuzco, Peru, 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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Wonderful masonry of ancient Incas, laid without tools or mortar, Triumph St., Cuzco, Peru
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Triumph Street in Cuzco, the former Inca capital, is the setting here, where tall walls of carefully cut stone line a narrow lane. The blocks were fitted together without mortar, with joints so tight that a knife blade can barely enter them, a feature that drew admiration from travelers and photographers in the early 1900s. Underwood & Underwood, the New York firm known for widely sold stereographs, issued this card around 1906 so viewers could see the stonework in three dimensions. The picture's interest in precise stone fitting explains its place on a board devoted to Freemasons, a society often linked in popular imagination to ancient building craft.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. (59) 9276. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Architecture; Building materials; Incas; Peru--C-; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,408 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137664 |
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