Giant's Coffin
date: label: date made
content: 1866
name: label: maker
content: E. & H. T. Anthony
label: maker
content: Waldack, Charles
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Stereoscopic view of a large rock 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. 15 / "Giant's Coffin." / Is an immence rock forty feet long, twenty wide and eight high, which has been detached from the avenue against which it rests. On the left beneath the coffin may be seen a narrow passage which leads into "Deserted Chamber." "Giant's Coffin presents a gloomy sepulchral appearance when lighted up by the glare of the magnesium light. It is on the right of the Main Cave, one mile from the entrance. / Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., / Emporium of American and Foreign Stereoscopic Views, Chromos, and Albums, / 591 Broadway, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel, 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: 2012.3033.0009
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0009
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
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