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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 8,500 feet below the general surface 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

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Title: 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 8,500 feet below the general surface 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
Creator: O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882
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-5603.
Yellow mount, orange back.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph : stereograph card ; 4 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001589170CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Photographs
Discoveries in geography--Photographs
Canyons--Arizona--Grand Canyon
Cliffs--Arizona--Grand Canyon
Expeditions & surveys--United States
Rivers--Arizona--Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Photographs
Kanab Creek (Utah and Ariz.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Stereographs
Expedition photographs
Place: Arizona
Grand Canyon
United States
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Kanab Creek (Utah and Ariz.)

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