Mammoth Cave, Edmondson Co., Ky.: Scotchman's Trap – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Mammoth Cave, Edmondson Co., Ky.: Scotchman's Trap in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mammoth Cave, Edmondson Co., Ky.: Scotchman's Trap
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Scotchman's Trap, a passage in Mammoth Cave in Edmondson County, Kentucky, is the specific spot this stereograph records. The card is captioned as one of the "Magnesium Light Views," meaning the scene was lit by burning magnesium, a bright, brief flare that photographers used because cave interiors were too dark for the slow wet-plate process of the 1860s. Mammoth Cave was already a well-known tourist destination by then, and stereo cards like this one carried views of its passages to viewers far from Kentucky. The caption information comes from an older card and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1866 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Magnesium Light Views. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Caves; Ky.--M- C-; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 766 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135656 |
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