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| Title: | Entrance to the Music Room (Carlsbad Caverns, N.M.) |
| Date/circa: | 1932? - 1936? | |
| Photographer: | Lee, Willis T. | |
| Subjects: | Caves - New Mexico - Carlsbad Caverns; Carlsbad Caverns (N.M.) | |
| Notes: | A theatre curtain of dripstone at the entrance to the Music Room. Water-bearing carbonate of lime in solution has trickled from a crevice high in the wall, deposited its load of mineral matter in the form of a hanging curtain. Beyond this portiere is a group of stalactites, which gave forth musical tones when lightly touched. | |
| Negative#: | 2010 |
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