The Taj Mahal, Agra, India
The text on the back of the stereoview reads as follows:
“From 1525 to 1707 India was ruled by the Great Moguls. This Dynasty was at the height of its power during the reign (1628-1658) of Shah Jehan. Wonderful temples, thrones and tombs had been erected by the Moguls, but none were so wonderful as the tomb before us, said to be the most beautiful building in the world. It was built for Moomtaij-i-Mahal, the favorite wife of Shah Jehan. She was married at twenty and died in 1631, at twenty-nine years of age. At her death she made two requests; one that the Emperor should not marry again, the second that he should build for her a tomb that would perpetuate her name. The two requests were faithfully fulfilled. This memorial tomb was commenced immediately.
“With what love, devotion and fidelity the last request of Moomtaij-i-Mahal was carried out, you have the testimony before you. The Taj Mahal is built entirely of polished white marble, inlaid within and without with precious stones wrought in a thousand designs and inscriptions. The matchless dome and spire rise 275 feet and the slender minarets at the corners of the platform are each 133 feet high. Of the architects, it has been said: “They built like Titans and finished like jewelers.” Massiveness and delicacy, majesty and beauty, dignity and tenderness are mingled and harmonized in this perfection of Saracenic art. Twenty thousand men labored twenty-two years to build the Taj, and Shah Jehan’s imperial treasury was said to have been more than $20,000,000 poorer. But the Moslem emperor’s faithful love of one woman was enshrined for the admiration and edification of the ages.” [Text by the Keystone View Company]
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The Taj Mahal, Agra, India
The text on the back of the stereoview reads as follows:
“From 1525 to 1707 India was ruled by the Great Moguls. This Dynasty was at the height of its power during the reign (1628-1658) of Shah Jehan. Wonderful temples, thrones and tombs had been erected by the Moguls, but none were so wonderful as the tomb before us, said to be the most beautiful building in the world. It was built for Moomtaij-i-Mahal, the favorite wife of Shah Jehan. She was married at twenty and died in 1631, at twenty-nine years of age. At her death she made two requests; one that the Emperor should not marry again, the second that he should build for her a tomb that would perpetuate her name. The two requests were faithfully fulfilled. This memorial tomb was commenced immediately.
“With what love, devotion and fidelity the last request of Moomtaij-i-Mahal was carried out, you have the testimony before you. The Taj Mahal is built entirely of polished white marble, inlaid within and without with precious stones wrought in a thousand designs and inscriptions. The matchless dome and spire rise 275 feet and the slender minarets at the corners of the platform are each 133 feet high. Of the architects, it has been said: “They built like Titans and finished like jewelers.” Massiveness and delicacy, majesty and beauty, dignity and tenderness are mingled and harmonized in this perfection of Saracenic art. Twenty thousand men labored twenty-two years to build the Taj, and Shah Jehan’s imperial treasury was said to have been more than $20,000,000 poorer. But the Moslem emperor’s faithful love of one woman was enshrined for the admiration and edification of the ages.” [Text by the Keystone View Company]
(Note: An inexpensive viewer can turn the side-by-side images on the computer screen into a 3-D image. The viewer is available from the following source:
civilwarin3d.com/html/viewers.html )