Head of Grand Canyon – Antique Print
![Head of Grand Canyon, [United States : publisher unnamed, 1872] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bf/bf4c8459640e-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Head of Grand Canyon. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Numbered 193 and titled simply "Head of Grand Canyon," this stereograph shows the upper end of the gorge, where the Colorado River begins its descent between the cliffs. It belongs to the U.S. topographical and geological survey of the Colorado River valley led by John Wesley Powell, whose expeditions in 1869 and 1871 to 1872 were among the first to map and photograph the canyon systematically. Stereo cards like this were made for parlor viewers, who used a stereoscope to see the cliffs in three dimensions and brought a remote landscape into middle-class homes. The date shown is an estimate, since the publisher is not named.
| Created / published | [United States : publisher unnamed, 1872] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1870-1880.Stereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | No. 193. Written on back: Grand. 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. |
| Subjects | Canyons--Arizona--1870-1880. Cliffs--Arizona--1870-1880. Rivers--Arizona--1870-1880. Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,302 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1120_Head_of_Grand_Canyon_1872 |
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