The Grand Canyon of Arizona, from Rowe Point – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This historic image of The Grand Canyon of Arizona, from Rowe Point brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Grand Canyon of Arizona, from Rowe Point
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Looking out from Rowe Point, the viewer sees a wide sweep of the canyon's layered walls falling away toward the Colorado River, a vantage that gave early visitors a broad panorama rather than a single close view. The picture dates to about 1902 and comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced hand-colored and tinted views of American scenery and sold them to tourists and railroad travelers during this period. Its catalog-style number and caption card are part of how such views were marketed, and the company's large body of western landscape images now serves as a visual record of how the canyon was presented to the public at the turn of the twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 010641. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 411 px · prints to 5 × 1 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160534 |
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