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[Grand Canyon, Arizona: First mile at Bright Angel Trail, and 1300 ft. of Precipice] – Historic Reproduction

[Grand Canyon, Arizona: First mile at Bright Angel Trail, and 1300 ft. of Precipice], c1907. — historic photograph
[Grand Canyon, Arizona: First mile at Bright Angel Trail, and 1300 ft. of Precipice], c1907.. 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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A window into the past: [Grand Canyon, Arizona: First mile at Bright Angel Trail, and 1300 ft. of Precipice], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Bright Angel Trail, which drops from the South Rim near the Grand Canyon's Bright Angel Point area, is the focus here, with the caption noting roughly 1,300 feet of sheer precipice visible from the first mile of descent. Around 1907 the trail was already a popular route down into the canyon, used by tourists on mule back and by the cattle and mining traffic that had long shaped its use. The Fred Harvey Company and the railroad were building up tourism to the South Rim in these years, so pictures like this one helped introduce a wide public to the scale of the chasm. The record comes from a caption card and has not been independently verified, so the details of the photographer and exact date should be read with that in mind.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,136 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160504

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