Virginia - The Grandest of American Caverns ... Luray Cave, Page County - The Organ – 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 Virginia - The Grandest of American Caverns ... Luray Cave, Page County - The Organ, an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Virginia - The Grandest of American Caverns ... Luray Cave, Page County - The Organ
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Among the many views of Luray Cave in Page County, Virginia, this wood engraving singles out the Organ, a group of stone formations that produces musical tones when struck. The cave had only recently opened to paying visitors when the view appeared in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on December 27, 1879, at a time when illustrated weeklies relied on wood engravings to reproduce scenes like this one. The caption card also lists photography and flash among its subjects, which points to the use of magnesium light to show caverns that were otherwise too dark to depict well.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 49, no. 1265 (1879 Dec. 27), p. 296. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Tourists; Caves; Photographers; Photography, Flash. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,208 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151211 |
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