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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A window into the past: The water clock, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Water Clock is one of the named formations that guides pointed out to visitors on tours of Mammoth Cave, and this card, number 11 in Ben Hains's "Mammoth Cave and Vicinity" series, presents it as a place to pause. Stereographs like this were widely sold around 1900. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images gave travelers a sense of depth in the cave's passages. The print is on silver printing-out paper, and the card reflects how much of the cave's appeal then rested on guided walks past slowly dripping rock.
| 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 | 2,653 × 4,366 px · prints to 9 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09724_Thewaterclock |
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