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Leaping water – Antique Wall Art

Leaping water, [United States : publisher unnamed, 1873] — historic photograph
Leaping water, [United States : publisher unnamed, 1873]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Leaping water. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few pictures in this series show water in such motion, and this stereograph, numbered 15, catches a stream breaking over rock in a way that still conveys the force of the current. It belongs to the Pa-ru-no-wip series, issued as part of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Colorado River region led by John Wesley Powell, with photographs by A.H. Thompson. The survey worked to map the canyons and rivers of the Colorado Plateau in the early 1870s, a landscape few outsiders had documented. Stereo cards like this one were sold to a public eager to see the West, so the pair of images was meant to give viewers a sense of depth.

Created / published[United States : publisher unnamed, 1873]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880.
NotesNo. 15. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson. Part of: Pa-ru-no-wip series.
SubjectsStreams--Utah--1870-1880. Cameras--Utah--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 940 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163866

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