Bacon Chamber
date: label: date made
content: 1866
name: label: maker
content: E. & H. T. Anthony
label: maker
content: Waldack, Charles
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Stereo view of a man with one foot up on a rock, holding a lantern up in a cave. From a Charles Waldack negative. Printed on recto: "Magnesium Light Views in Mammoth Cave." and "Entered according to and Act of Congress in the year 1866, by Proctor & O'Shaughnessy in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. Dist. of Ohio." Printed on verso: "Mammoth Cave Views. / No. 29. / "Bacon Chamber," / Is situated to the right of "River Hall" which is entered from "Great Relief." The curious projec- / tions from the roof resembling flitches of bacon, are caused by the action of water at a period when the / chamber was completely filled with water. It is one of the best views taken in the cave. / Published by E. &H. T. Anthony & Co., / American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emproium, 501 Broadway, New-York. / Negative by Chas. Waldack, Cincinnati, O."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Mammoth Cave
topic: label: Subject
content: National Parks
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0012
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 7 in; 8.255 cm x 17.78 cm