Bonito Bend between Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Bonito Bend between Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bonito Bend between Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons
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Bonito Bend, as the title records, sits on the river between Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons, where the water winds past rock walls and small islands. The print is dated 1871 and was probably made by O.E. Beaman, a photographer who worked with John Wesley Powell's survey of the Colorado River that year. Field photography then was laborious: glass plates were heavy and fragile, exposures ran long, and chemicals had to be mixed and used on site. Images like this gave readers far from the canyons their first visual sense of country that had been known mainly through the reports of men who traveled it by boat.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Photograph probably by O.E. Beaman. |
| Subjects | Islands--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1880. Rivers--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163249 |
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