Grand Canyon, Colorado River, looking west / Hillers. – Historic Print
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(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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This rare historic photograph captures Grand Canyon, Colorado River, looking west / Hillers. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Grand Canyon, Colorado River, looking west / Hillers.
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Looking west along the Colorado River, this view sets the eye at water level inside the Grand Canyon, where the river runs between tall walls of layered rock. The record credits the picture to Fennemore and dates it to April 1872, based on a 1989 Smithsonian study of the western photographs of John K. Hillers. Hillers worked as a boatman and photographer on John Wesley Powell's survey of the canyon in 1871 and 1872, and the expedition's images helped give the public one of its first detailed looks at the gorge. The scale of the cliffs against the river is what stands out most.
| Created / published | [1872 April] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Attribution to Fennemore and date based on Western photographs of John K. Hillers / Don D. Fowler. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989. |
| Subjects | Canyons--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1990. Rivers--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1880. Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1870-1880. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,152 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113395 |
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