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Temple Creek Canon – Historic Print

Temple Creek Canon, [United States : publisher unnamed, 1875] — historic photograph
Temple Creek Canon, [United States : publisher unnamed, 1875]. 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 Temple Creek Canon. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Temple Creek, a side canyon in the Utah country that the Powell survey mapped, is the subject of this stereograph, numbered 177 in the series. The card comes from the U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River region, led by John Wesley Powell and A. H. Thompson, which documented the canyon lands of the Colorado Plateau in the 1870s. Stereo cards like this were made to be viewed through a lens, so the rock walls and creek bed appear to recede in depth. The print is an albumen print, a process widely used for survey photographs of the period.

Created / published[United States : publisher unnamed, 1875]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880.
NotesNo. 177. Written on back: Temple Creek. Title from item. 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. No. 177.
SubjectsStreams--Utah--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 946 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163865

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