The Lovers Leap – Antique 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 The Lovers Leap, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Titled "The Lovers Leap," this stereograph card is number 31 in a series of views of Mammoth Cave and the surrounding Kentucky countryside. Cave guides in the nineteenth century often gave dramatic or romantic names to rock formations and passages, and the names helped shape how visitors experienced the tour. Stereograph cards were viewed through a stereoscope, which merged two slightly offset photographs into one image with depth, so parlor viewers could feel they were walking the passages themselves. The series was published by William I. Marshall, and the copyright is credited to Ben Hains.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen silver. |
| Notes | 6328 U.S. Copyright Office. Part of series: Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity. No. 31. Copyright by Ben Hains. Title from item. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Stalactites & stalagmites--Kentucky--1890. Caves--Kentucky--1890. Mammoth Cave (Ky.)--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,334 × 2,538 px · prints to 14 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09719_TheLoversLeap |
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