[El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, Arizona] – Vintage Print
![[El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, Arizona], c1906. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/69/69d2416b917a-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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[El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, Arizona] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, Arizona]
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The El Tovar Hotel, shown here on a Globe Stereoscopic Company card numbered 5323, stood on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon as a lodging built for visitors arriving by rail. The Santa Fe Railway opened it in 1905, and the Fred Harvey Company ran its rooms and meals for travelers who came by train from Williams, Arizona. The hotel took its name from Pedro de Tovar, a Spanish officer who reached the rim with Coronado's expedition in 1540. Its rustic stone and timber design was meant to blend with the rim, and stereo cards like this one were made so viewers could see the canyon's depth.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by the Globe Stereoscopic Co., Chicago. No. 5323. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 776 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158982 |
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