0369a_Caves_Star_Chamber_WPA_Scan_1939_1941_RG2920J

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In Folder: Division of Community Service- Writers' Project, Photos Caves - Mammoth Onyx Items (0338-0399), 1937-1940

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0369a_Caves_Star_Chamber_WPA_Scan_1939_1941_RG2920J

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title: "The Star Chamber," Photo 0369, undated

creator: United States. Division of Community Service- Writers' Project

contributor: United States. Works Project Administration in Kentucky

date: 1939-1941

description: "The Star Chamber," Photo 0369, undated- scannedBlack and white photograph showing a large cavern with a dark roof. A man is sitting on benches to the right holding up a torch. In a note attached to the image it reads "The Star Chamber-This crescent-shaped channel, is where visitors to Mammoth Cave observe the stars, although underground. This illusion is created when the guide leaves the main cave channel and lights the ceiling with his lantern from a side avenue. The stars are the white spots of limestone showing through a ceiling of black manganese. Mammoth Cave Photo-Ray Scott."

subject: Mammoth Cave (Ky.)

subject: Caves--Kentucky

subject: Photography of caves

subject: Photographs

type: Image

identifier: Cav0369_M0047-A1992-464-RG2920J

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