Temple Creek Canon – Antique Wall Art
![Temple Creek Canon, [United States : publisher unnamed, 1875] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c3/c338e2da9db2-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.)
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A window into the past: Temple Creek Canon, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Temple Creek Canon survives as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical views printed on a card so that a stereoscope could fuse them into a single image with depth, which made rocky gorges like this one feel close and solid to nineteenth-century viewers. The card is numbered 177 in a series of the U.S. topographical and geological survey of the Colorado River valley, associated with John Wesley Powell and A.H. Thompson. Survey photographs of this kind were among the first systematic records of the canyon country of the American West, and they shaped how a broad public came to understand terrain that few had seen firsthand. The publisher is not named on the card, so beyond the 1875 date, its exact origin is less certain.
| Created / published | [United States : publisher unnamed, 1875] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | No. 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. |
| Subjects | Streams--Utah--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,652 × 3,737 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221743 |
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