Purgatory Chasm, aka The Lover's Leap
Purgatory Chasm, aka The Lover's Leap
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- Description (Brief)
- 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
- Object Name
- stereograph
- date made
- mid-late 1800s
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Middletown
- associated place
- United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.0609
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.0609
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- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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