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Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West by William H. Bell — VisualArtsDB
Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
William H. Bell
1872
Medium
albumen print from tannin dry plate negative
Dimensions
Image: 27.5 x 20.2 cm (10 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
Genre
photograph
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Photography
Tags
America
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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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Marble Cañon, one of the gorges of the Colorado here, 1.200 feet deep. The steep cliff is gray limestone and the slope below a brilliant red sandstone, No. 13 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
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Mouth of the Paria, Colorado River; walls 2.100 feet in height, No. 11 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
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