Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, looking South / W. Bell, phot. – Antique Print
(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 Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, looking South / W. Bell, phot., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, looking South / W. Bell, phot.
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Kanab Wash, where it meets the Colorado River, is the subject here: a deep canyon whose walls rise in stacked bands of rock, shot looking south. William Bell made the photograph in 1872 while working with the U.S. Army's survey of territory west of the 100th meridian, led by George M. Wheeler. Survey photographers carried heavy glass-plate cameras into remote country, and prints like this one, made by the albumen process, were issued in published sets so that officers, scientists and the public could see terrain that few had reached. As the first plate in its series, the view was meant to introduce the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau.
| Created / published | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Expedition photographs 1870-1880.Landscape photographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Plate no. 1. Title from item. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, seasons of 1871, 1872, and 1873. [Washington, D.C.] : War Dept., Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, [1875] Published in: Wheeler's photographic survey of the American West, 1871-1873 by George M. Wheeler ; with 50 landscape photographs by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Bell. New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1983, Plate 17. |
| Subjects | Rock formations--1870-1880. Canyons--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,055 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125270 |
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