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[El Tovar Hotel], Grand Canyon, Arizona – Vintage Wall Art

[El Tovar Hotel], Grand Canyon, Arizona, c1905. — historic photograph
[El Tovar Hotel], Grand Canyon, Arizona, c1905.. Historic photograph from the Grand Canyon 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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[El Tovar Hotel], Grand Canyon, Arizona

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Set on the South Rim within sight of the canyon, the El Tovar Hotel was built to serve travelers arriving on the Santa Fe Railway's spur line. The Fred Harvey Company opened it in 1905, and it took its name from Pedro de Tovar, a Spanish officer who reached the rim with the 1540 expedition of García López de Cárdenas. This photoprint, copyrighted by G.W. Hance, shows the hotel from around the time it opened, when reaching the rim still meant a long journey across the Arizona high desert. The c1905 date comes from an unverified caption card, so treat it as approximate.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by G.W. Hance. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 918 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159026

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