Royal Gorge, Grand Canon of the Arkansas, Colorado Views No. 138 – Antique Wall Art
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This historic image of Royal Gorge, Grand Canon of the Arkansas, Colorado Views No. 138 brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Royal Gorge, Grand Canon of the Arkansas, Colorado Views No. 138
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Few places in the West looked as dramatic to nineteenth-century viewers as the Royal Gorge, where the Arkansas River cuts between rock walls that the card's title puts at 1,500 feet. Published in 1874 by William Isaac Marshall as No. 138 in his Colorado Views series, this stereograph was meant for a hand viewer, where two slightly offset images merged into a sense of depth that a flat photograph could not give. Cards like this helped Americans back east imagine a landscape most would never see in person, and the gorge soon became a contested route for railroad builders.
| Original scan | 4,884 × 2,824 px · prints to 16 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1s01231u |
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