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Citadel rock, Green River Valley – Antique Print

Citadel rock, Green River Valley, [1868] — historic photograph
Citadel rock, Green River Valley, [1868]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images in this group show the Union Pacific line as it crossed the high desert, but this albumen print of Citadel Rock in the Green River Valley does. The rock's eroded sandstone bulk rises above the valley floor, while the railroad works and bridge construction recorded in the subject headings mark the moment the tracks pushed west through Wyoming around 1868. The print was reproduced as plate XI in F. V. Hayden's *Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery* (1870), a volume meant to show the public what the new route would pass through. It later appeared in the Library of Congress's 2003 exhibition *Rivers, Edens, Empires*.

Created / published[1868]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreEmpires : Louis & Clark and the Revealing of America" at Joslyn Art Museum
NotesTitle from item. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, with a description of the geographical and geological features, and some account of the resources of the great West; containing thirty photographic views along the line of the Pacific rail road, from Omaha to Sacramento, / F.V. Hayden. New York : Julius Bien, 1870, [plate] XI. Exhibited: Rivers, Edens, Empires : Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America, Library of Congress, 2003. Exhibited: Rivers
SubjectsRock formations--1860-1870. Railroad construction & maintenance--Wyoming--1860-1870. Bridge construction--Wyoming--1860-1870. Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah)--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,147 × 4,159 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-224440

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