Purgatory Chasm, aka The Lover's Leap
date: label: date made
content: mid-late 1800s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on grey cardstock; photograph by J. A. Williams; printed on label on verso "Purgatory; or, the Lover's Leap. / Newport, R.I. / Depth 40 feet to the water. The chasm gradually sidens to the top, where it is nearly twelve feet across. / By Williams."; printed on verso "From the original / Joshua A. Wialliams' / Photograph Rooms, / Established 1847. / Formerly Wm. Vose's Ice Cream Saloon, / South Touro Street, / Near Bath Road, --- Sign of Red Cart, / Newport, R.I. / P.O. Box 507."; view looking down into chasm with water below, surrounded on both sides by grass covered terrain
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Middletown
label: associated place
content: United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
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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: 2012.3033.0609
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0609
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm