Twin domes and giant stalagmites in the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

Twin domes and giant stalagmites in the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

Photograph

Office of War Information

American, 1942–1945

Twin domes and giant stalagmites in the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Image: 5 11/16 × 4 9/16 in. (14.5 × 11.6 cm)
Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith, 2011
Inscriptions printed in image on recto, BLC: S-4820-7
inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: 2015
typed on label [detached] on verso, LC: FF. \ 7. Twin domes and giant stalagmites in the \ Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns National Park \ in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The Big \ Room, formed by nature over millions of \ years, is more than three-fourths of a mile \ (one kilometer) long. Its maximum width is \ 625 feet (188 meters), and the measured \ height of the ceiling is 300 feet (90 meters).
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