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Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West by William H. Bell — VisualArtsDB
Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
William H. Bell
1872
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 27.5 × 20.4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/16 in.); Album page: 49.7 × 38.2 cm (19 5/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
Genre
albumen print from collodion negative
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
19th century
Tags
albumen print from collodion negative
19th century
photography
photograph
Collected by Hugh Edwards
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The mouth of Kanab Creek. The beds of the Colorado River and its tributary here lie in gorges cut by the running water to the depth of about 3.500 feet below the general surgace of the country. The highest point seen in the picture is 2.500 feet above the water, and the walls are here too steep to be scaled, No. 10 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
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