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The "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1,500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling, no. 15

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Title: The "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1,500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling, no. 15
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910
Contributor: Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872
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-5608.
Cliffs in background; wagon tracks and rounded hills in foreground.
Yellow mount, orange back.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph : stereograph card ; 4 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001589183CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Photographs
Discoveries in geography--Photographs
Cliffs--Arizona
Expeditions & surveys--United States
Vermilion Cliffs (Ariz. and Utah)--Photographs
Jacobs Pool (Ariz.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Stereographs
Expedition photographs
Place: Arizona
United States
Vermilion Cliffs (Ariz. and Utah)
Jacobs Pool (Ariz.)

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