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Explorers Column, Cañon de Chelle, Arizona. This shaft is the work of nature, and is about 900 feet in height; base about 70 by 110 feet. It stands near the center of the Cañon, and it is almost impossible to believe that it is not the work of human hands, no. 23

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Title: Explorers Column, Cañon de Chelle, Arizona. This shaft is the work of nature, and is about 900 feet in height; base about 70 by 110 feet. It stands near the center of the Cañon, and it is almost impossible to believe that it is not the work of human hands, no. 23
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: 1873
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-5617.
Shows Spider Rock.
Yellow mount, orange back.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph : stereograph card ; 4 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001589237CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Photographs
Discoveries in geography--Photographs
Rock formations--Arizona--Chelly, Canyon de
Cliffs--Arizona
Canyons--Arizona
Expeditions & surveys--United States
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Stereographs
Expedition photographs
Place: Arizona
Chelly, Canyon de
United States
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)

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