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Kanab Wash, Colorado basin. – Vintage Wall Art

Kanab Wash, Colorado basin., [United States], 1872. — historic photograph
Kanab Wash, Colorado basin., [United States], 1872.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Kanab Wash, Colorado basin.

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Kanab Wash, a dry drainage in the Colorado River basin, appears on this albumen stereograph made in 1872 during the U.S. Army's Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, led by Lieutenant George M. Wheeler. Wheeler's Corps of Engineers parties mapped and recorded the Southwest's rugged terrain, and their photographs were among the first detailed visual records of many of these remote canyons and washes. Printed on a stereo card, the picture was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the landscape a sense of depth that a flat print could not. The card is part of the survey's Colorado River series, so it also documents the broader effort to understand the river system's geography.

Created / published[United States], 1872.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880.
NotesOriginal negative number: 52. Title from item. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: Colorado River Series.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,243 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132220

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