The Taj Mahal, looking north – 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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The Taj Mahal, looking north
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Taken looking north, this stereograph shows the white marble mausoleum at Agra in northern India from a vantage point that the card's caption leaves unexplained. Shah Jahan commissioned the tomb in the 1630s for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and it was largely finished by the early 1650s. By about 1906, stereo cards like this one were sold in large numbers so that viewers could see distant landmarks in three dimensions through a hand viewer. The date and details come from the caption card and have not been verified.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 742 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160840 |
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