The Grand Canon in Arizona – Antique Wall Art
(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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The Grand Canon in Arizona comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Grand Canon in Arizona
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Numbered 50048 in the Detroit Publishing Company's catalog, this mammoth-plate view shows the Grand Canyon in Arizona as a broad sweep of colored strata. It was made by photochrom, a process that transferred a photographic image onto lithographic stones, each inked in a different color, and the company licensed the method from a Swiss firm to produce such prints in the United States. Views like this were popular with travelers and with readers who could not easily reach the canyon themselves. The print was also submitted for copyright deposit, which helps explain why a copy survives today.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color ; 50.9 x 87.5 cm. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color.Mammoth plates. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co., no. 50048. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Canyons.United States--Arizona--Grand Canyon. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 770 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-79680 |
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