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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

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Title: 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
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910
Contributor: Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Date Created and/or Issued: 1871
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Stereo-5606.
Aerial view of canyon.
Yellow mount, orange back.
Marble Canyon marks beginning of Grand Canyon.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph : stereograph card ; 4 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001589173CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Photographs
Discoveries in geography--Photographs
Canyons--Arizonza--Grand Canyon National Park
Rivers--Arizona--Grand Canyon
Expeditions & surveys--United States
Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--Photographs
Marble Canyon (Coconino County, Ariz. : Canyon)--Photographs
Colorado River (Colo. and Mexico)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Stereographs
Expedition photographs
Aerial views
Place: Arizonza
Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona
Grand Canyon
United States
Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)
Marble Canyon (Coconino County, Ariz. : Canyon)
Colorado River (Colo. and Mexico)

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