Mammoth Cave, Kentucky: House formerly used by consumptive patients – Historic Reproduction
(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: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky: House formerly used by consumptive patients, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky: House formerly used by consumptive patients
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Few places in nineteenth-century America were as closely tied to the hope of curing lung disease as Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. In the 1840s, the cave's owner, Dr. John Croghan, brought tuberculosis patients there, believing the cave's cool, steady air would help them, and a house set apart for these visitors became part of the cave grounds. This wood engraving, published in a February 1877 supplement to *Harper's Weekly*, shows that building decades later, when the cave had become a popular tourist destination. Its appearance in a widely read illustrated weekly reflects the public's interest in both the cave and the health claims attached to it.
| Created / published | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, supplement, (1877 Feb. 10), p. 118. No ref. copies. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152131 |
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