Grand Canyon, Colorado River, looking west / Hillers. – Antique Print
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(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 Grand Canyon, Colorado River, looking west / Hillers.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Grand Canyon, Colorado River, looking west / Hillers.
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Shot looking west along the Colorado River, this view shows the river winding through the inner gorge of the Grand Canyon, with the cliffs stepping up on either side. The catalog credits the photograph to Fennemore and dates it to April 1872, a date based on the scholarship of Don D. Fowler and others who have studied John K. Hillers's work. Hillers was a boatman and photographer on John Wesley Powell's expedition down the river that year, and the trip produced some of the earliest photographs of the canyon's interior. The image is worth a close look for the scale it conveys, since the river is a thin line against the walls.
| Created / published | [1872 April] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Attribution to Fennemore and date based on Western photographs of John K. Hillers / Don D. Fowler. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989. |
| Subjects | Canyons--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1990. Rivers--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1870-1880. Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1870-1880. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221739 |
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