[Grand Canyon]: El Tovar, rim of canyon, and Coconino Forest – Vintage Wall Art
![[Grand Canyon]: El Tovar, rim of canyon, and Coconino Forest, c1906. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/477792b297d0-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Grand Canyon]: El Tovar, rim of canyon, and Coconino Forest, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Grand Canyon]: El Tovar, rim of canyon, and Coconino Forest
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El Tovar, the rustic hotel perched on the South Rim, is the particular subject here, set beside the canyon edge with the Coconino Forest spreading out behind it. The Fred Harvey Company built El Tovar in 1905 to serve the growing number of rail travelers who came to see the canyon after the Santa Fe Railway reached the rim, and its log-and-stone design was meant to blend with the landscape rather than dominate it. Around 1906, when this view was made, the hotel was a showpiece of the new tourist trade, and photographs like this one helped establish the South Rim as a destination in its own right. The record comes from an unverified caption card, so the exact photographer and vantage point remain uncertain.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,101 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159009 |
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