File:Colorado River in Glen Canyon near Lee's Ferry at the eastern end of the Grand Canyon, ca.1896 (CHS-3900).jpg

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English: Colorado River in Glen Canyon near Lee's Ferry at the eastern end of the Grand Canyon, ca.1896
  • Photograph of the Colorado River in lower Glen Canyon near Lee's Ferry, north of the eastern end of the Grand Canyon, Arizona (ca.1896).
  • The towering nearly-vertical rocky canyon walls loom over the placid river.
  • A canyon rim is visible in the distance casting a reflection in the water.



Call number: CHS-3900
Photographer: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Filename: CHS-3900
Coverage date: circa 1896
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 3900
Microfiche number: 1-91-195
Archival file: chs_Volume96/CHS-3900.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): rivers
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1896
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Legacy record ID: chs-m16444; USC-1-1-1-14262
Geographic subject: rivers: Colorado River; canyons: Glen Canyon; canyons: Grand Canyon
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Natural features -- Parks -- Grand Canyon -- Colorado River -- Glen Canyon, Lee's Ferry
Subject (lcsh): Parks; Canyons; Rivers
Date circa 1896
date QS:P,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/16383
Author George Wharton James, 1858—1923

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