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		Title: The Fireplace, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest on the rim of the Grand Canyon is the great fireplace. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fireplace in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives the visitor a sense of ease and well being.

Title: A Corner in the Rendezvous, Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Rendezvous, El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1912 Jan-24 Description: The civilized world first heard of the Grand Canyon in 1540, when it was discovered by a detachment of Coronado's expedition into Tusayan, or Hopi Land. Pedro de Castaneda, the historian of Coronado's forces, says: "It seemed to be more than three or four leagues in an air line across to the other bank of the stream" which flowed below, and that they spent three days on this bank looking for a passage down to the river, but found it impossible to descend.


Title: The Rendezvous, El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named after Don Pedro del Tovar, a captain in Coronado's expedition in 1540.		Title: The Stairs to Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Ladies Lounging Room Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Private Dining Room, Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Corner of Dining Room, Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: The Rendezvous Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Leap For Life Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: This spectacular leap was performed by a park ranger at a point known as Douglas Fairbanks Rock about five minutes walk east of El Tovar. The jump is 12 ft. from rock to rock as indicated, with a 2,000 ft. drop below, tho the Colorado River flows a mile below the Canyon's rim.		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1905 Nov-19

Title: Dining Room, Grand Canyon Lodge No. Rim Continental Chrome unused Description: Grand Canyon Nation Park, Arizona. Perched on the brink of the North Rim of Grand Canyon, the hug plate glass windows of the dining room at Grand Canyon Lodge offer incomparable views to the dinner guest as well as excellent and varied cuisine.		Title: Grand Canyon Lodge Continental Chrome unused Description: Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim), Arizona Built of native stone and timber on the brink of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Lodge features a fine Restaurant, Cocktail Lounge, Snack Bar, Soda Fountain, and complete Gift Shop featuring Authentic Indian Handicraft.

Title: Brice, Zion Grand Canyon Continental Chrome unused Description: Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon (North Rim) National Parks Comfortable lodging, family restaurants, and in park tours await your vacation enjoyment. For reservations and information call or write: TWA Services, Inc. P.O. Box TWA Cedar City, Utah 84720 1-801-586-7686		Title: Bright Angel Lodge on the South Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: The friendly little village of the Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins provides comfortable accommodations right at the brink of the canyon.

Title: El Tovar Hotel Real Photo unused		Title: The Rest House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Angel's Window, Cape Royal Chrome unused		Title: Cameron Trading Post Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused

Title: Grand Canyon Inn Chrome unused		Title: Grand Canyon from Point Sublime Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused

Title: Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo PM 1950 Dec-26		Title: Lipan Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused

Title: The Stairs to Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon Divided Back unused		Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, erected for the convenience and comfort of the traveler to Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had

Title: Entrance to Bright Angel Lodge Continental Chrome unused		Title: Flintstones Bedrock City Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: Junction Hwy's 64 & 180. 30 mi. south of Grand Canyon. Fred & Barney with their pall "Rocky" the snake.l

Title: Flintstone's Bedrock City Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: Junction Hwy's 64 & 180 30 mi. South of Grand Canyon Fred & Barney's New Grand Canyon Bus Line		Title: Bright Angel Point Jumbo/Large Format unused Description: Grand Canyon is an immense 12 miles wide and a mile deep, whole ranges of mountains a mile below, their tops at the level of your eyes, or slightly below, a labyrinth of canyons, a sea of flaming gorgeous colors from red to purple, a gorgeous spectacle extending 217 miles.

Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Divided Back unused Description: From the wide, comfortable porch at Hermit's Rest, the most recent building erected by the Santa Fe for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at the Grand Canyon, a far-reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had.		Title: Painting in Indian Watchtower Linen PM 1936 Aug-3

Title: Bright Angel Lodge Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM Jul-14 Description: The rambling, one-story structures of Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins form a picturesque group on the Canyon's rim-a little village of log, stone and adobe that seems to have magically "grown up" from its natural surroundings. The Main Lodge provides attractive lounge, dining and entertainment facilities.		Title: The Kiva, Desert View Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM 1938 Jul-19 Description: The low, round Kiva, forty feet in diameter, built at the base of The Watchtower at Desert View, lies half-buried in its foundation of green stained canyon boulders. In all details it reproduces the prehistoric Kiva or ceremonial chamber, except for the introduction of great windows overlooking the magnificent panorama of canyon and desert.

Title: Grand Canyon Lodge Real Photo unused		Title: The Watchtower, Desert View White Border PM 1935 Nov-9

Title: "The Kiva"-Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), White Border PM 1935 Feb-23 Description: The low, round Kiva forty feet in diameter, built at the base of The Indian Watchtower lies half-buried in its foundation of great stained Canyon boulders. In all details it reproduces the prehistoric Kiva or ceremonial chamber, exept for the introduction of great windows overlooking the magnificent panorama of Canyon and Desert. Built for the shelter and entertainment of the traveler, it affords a most comfortable and fascinating lounge room.		Title: Little Colorado River Gorge Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1935 Aug-22 Description: Along the Navahopi Drive the gorge of the Little Colorado River appears. The road parallels this gorge for several miles.

Title: Hotel El Tovar Chrome Description: One of the world's most famous resort inns, picturesquely located on south rim of the Grand Canyon. This fine hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs. Its rustic dining room is internationally known for its excellent cuisine.		Title: Native Deer on Steps of Bright Angel Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park Linen PM 1947 Mar-13 Description: Grand Canyon visitors can frequently see native deer browsing about the grounds of El Tovar Hotel and Bright Angel Lodge. Wild deer of this species abound in the nearby Kaibab National Forest.

Title: Hotel El Tovar Chrome unused		Title: Hotel El Tovar Linen PM 1953 Nov-22

Title: Angel's Window, Cape Royal, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Cape Royal Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: On Cape Royal, southernmost point on the North Rim, an outstanding landmark is Angel's Window. This large opening has been eroded, at a point several hundred feet below the rim, through a spur of limestone that projects into the canyon.		Title: Verkamp's Souvenir Store White Border unused

Title: Bright Angel Lodge Linen unused		Title: Grand Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone Park Yellowstone National Park Wyoming (WY), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: A Room in Hope House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Hermits Rest Continental Chrome unused

Title: Entrance to Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Kaibab Suspension Bridge across the Colorado River Divided Back unused

Title: The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest on the rim of the Grand Canyon is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives the visitor a sense of ease and well being.		Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, erected for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had.

Title: From The Lookout Divided Back unused Description: The Lookout is a newly erected building from which the Canyon can be viewed to good advantage. A telescope mounted in the tower of the building enables one to make a detailed view in either direction.		Title: Granite Gorge from Bright Angel Trail Divided Back unused

Title: Trail Party Ready for the Start Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1931 May-2		Title: A Corner in Hermits Rest Divided Back unused Description: Hermits Rest, Grand Canyon, was erected of native stone and rough hewn logs. It sets on the rim of the Canyon and from this vantage point a far reaching view of the Canyon can be had.

Title: Grand Canyon from O'Neill's Point Divided Back unused		Title: Party on Bright Angel Trail Divided Back

Title: The Fireplace, Hermit's Rest Divided Back unused		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world-7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremendous, awe-inspiring view unequaled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the Canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eighty miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon.

Title: On Hermit Rim Drive Near Mojave Point Divided Back unused		Title: Cliffs above Hermit Camp and Hermit Rim Road Divided Back unused

Title: Phantom Ranch Swimming Pool, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Continental Chrome unused Description: The beautiful swimming pool at this famous spot in the bottom of the fantastic Grand Canyon.		Title: Seven Mile Lodge & Gift Shop Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Continental Chrome unused

Title: Rendezvous, El Tovar Hotel Divided Back unused		Title: Looking Northeast From Mohave Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: View From Hopi Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The scene constantly changes. While one looks the colors turn from one shade to another and then change color. It is hardly imaginable that the opposite Canyon wall is 13 miles away. The mind is unused to grasping such tremendous things. At first one is not impressed by this, yet slowly but surely incredulity is changed to possibility, and doubt is changed to belief.		Title: From Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: From the parapet of El Tovar one can see the Battleship, Temple of Isis, the Plateau, Bright Angel Point, and Bright Angel Creek and Canyon. Bright Angel Canyon, deep as the main canyon is second only to it in beauty.

Title: Looking Down Cathedral Stairs on Hermit Trail Divided Back unused		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commands a tremendous, awe-inspiring view unequaled anywhere in the world. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs.

Title: On Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Cloud Shadows From Hopi Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Long may the visitor loiter upon the verge, powerless to shake loose from the charm, tirelessly intent upon the silent transformations until the sun is low in the west. Then the canyon sinks into mysterious purple shadow; darkness falls, and should there be a moon, the scene in part revives in silver light, a thousand spectral forms projected from inscrutable gloom.

Title: North from Pima Point Divided Back unused		Title: Along the Cliffs on Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Trail, the new way to the heart of the Canyon, is about nine miles west of El Tovar. It is a trail of easy grades and long zig zags, and four feet wide. Diverging from it on the plateau is the old Tonto Trail, connecting with Bright Angel, Grand View and other Canyon trails to the river.

Title: The Fire Place at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives one a sense of ease and well being, watching the snapping logs and ruddy glow of the fire. Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: The Towering Cliffs Above Hermit Camp Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Rim Road is a driveway 30 feet wide, built of crushed stone rolled to a smooth hard surface and sprinkled with crude oil, and leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail. From there a wide bridle path that can hardly be called a trail, of a comfortable grade and with substantial wall on the outer edge, leads into the canyon. At the first level is Hermit Camp, maintained for those desiring to remain a while in the depths of the canyon. Detroit Publishing Co.

Title: Hermit Creek Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: One of the Walls on Hermit Rim Road Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The most unique scenic highway in the world has been built from El Tovar Hotel and Bright Angel Camp westward to the head of Hermit Trail, a new trial down the south wall of the Canyon now being built. The distance from El Tovar is about nine miles; the road is constructed of crushed stone, thoroughly oiled; with a cinder base, it has been likened to a boulevard in the wilderness.

Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Divided Back unused Description: Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: Sunset From Mojave Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Down in the Granite Gorge you can see the rive and in the distance the North Wall and the plateau beyond and all between is a panorama of peaks and minarets, pinnacles and towers, castles in Spain and fairy turrets, of glowing colors and high lights, shadows and clouds blended by a blue haze like on the highest mountain peaks and over all is silence.

Title: Towering Cliffs above Hermit Camp Divided Back unused Description: Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: View from El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1947 Jul-27 Description: The most familiar view of the Grand Canyon is from El Tovar Hotel on the rim. In the foreground is The Battleship, a conspicuous and turreted mass of red, which lies a the base of Maricopa Point. In the distance is Bright Angel Canyon.

Title: Along the Cliffs on Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park, Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Trail, the new way to the heart of the Canyon, is about nine miles west of El Tovar. It is a trail of easy grades and long zig zags, and four feet wide. Diverging from it on the plateau is the old Tonto Trail, connecting with Bright Angel, Grand View and other Canyon trails to the river. Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: No Man's Land, From Near Hermit Trail Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The beholder is at first unimpressed by any detail; one is overwhelmed by the ensemble of a stupendous panorama, a thousand square miles in extent, that lies wholly beneath the eye, as if one stood upon a mountain peak instead of the level brink of a fearful chasm in the plateau whose opposite shore is thirteen miles away. Detroit Publishing Co.

Title: Northwest from Pima Point, Grand Canyon Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The elevation at Pima Point if 6350 feet, that of Point Sublime slightly northwest across on the north wall of the Canyon is 7764 feet, while Tiyo Point also on the north but slightly to the east of Pima Point is 7765 feet in altitude. The plateau to the north of the Canyon has an average elevation about 1000 feet greater than the plateau to the south.		Title: The Stairs to Hermit's Rest Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Detroit Publishing Co.

Title: Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused		Title: Fire-place, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused

Title: The Dining Room, Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Upstairs Room In The Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The exhibits in the Hopi House comprise a part of one of the most famous Indian Collections in existence; the remainder may be seen in the Indian Building at Albuquerque. The Hopi, the most primitive of Indians in the country, devote several weeks each year to religious ceremonies that their ancestors practiced for centuries. The ceremonial altars of this pagan people reproduced in the Hopi House are of great interest.

Title: Hotel El Tovar Divided Back unused		Title: The Lookout Divided Back PM 1928 Sep-5

Title: Grand Canyon From Hopi Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo PM 1936 Dec-10		Title: Trail Party Ready for the Start Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), White Border Description: For exploring the inner recesses of the Grand Canyon, several safely constructed rails have been built by government engineers. Although visitors may venture short distances down these trails on foot, the acepted mode of travel for longer journeys is via the famous "Grand Canyon mules". These faithful, sure-footed animals, in charge of experienced guides, hold a thirty years' record of carrying many thousands of inexperienced riders down the trails and back in perfect safety.

Title: Grand View Plateau Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Original Photograph unused Description: This is a rare, historic item. Used as part of the postcard production process by the Edward Mitchell Company (subsequently the Pacific Novelty Co. and Souvenir Publishing Co.)		Title: Entrance to Bright Angel Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM 1939 Aug-10 Description: Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins are situated on the Canyon's rim near the head of Bright Angel Trail. Attractive lounge and entertainment facilities, as well as a large coffee shop, are provided in the Main Lodge

Title: Hotel El Tovar Linen PM 1950 Aug-2 Description: Situated on an unparalleled site on the Rim of the Canyon, El Tovar is one of the most famous resort hotels in the Southwest. It is a long, low structure of native boulders and pine logs. Fred Harvey Hotels - Shops - Restaurants		Title: Hotel El Tovar Linen unused

Title: Coffee Shop, Bright Angel Lodge Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: The Coffee Shop at Bright Angel Lodge is a quaintly inviting room with log beams and rough plaster walls. At one end is a screened terrace, for outdoor dining during the summer months.		Title: Near Mohave Point on the Grand Canyon Rim Drive Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: Mohave Point is about four miles from El Tovar. Just opposite Mohave Point the Granite Gorge is deepest. From Mohae to the west, you can see across the river the Tower of Set. Horus Temple, Isis Temple, Cheops Pyramid, Buddha Temple, and on this side Powell Abyss with Copo and Dana Buttes.

Title: Painting in Indian Watchtower, Desert View Linen unused Description: Curt Teich & Co.		Title: Verkamp's Souvenir Store, Grand Canyon National Park White Border unused Description: C. T. American Art

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1928 Jun-13 Description: Fred Harvey Co. El Tovar, Grand Canyon is built of native boulders and pine logs from far off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named after Don Pedro del Tovar, leader of a detachment of Coronado's expedition in 1540 that explored and conquered the province now known as Hopi Land.		Title: The Towering Cliffs Above Hermit Camp Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Fred Harvey Co. Hermit Rim Road is a driveway 30 feet wide, built of crushed stone rolled to a smooth hard surface and sprinkled with crude oil, and leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail. From there a wide bridle path that can hardly be called a trail leads into the Canyon. At the first level is Hermit Camp, maintained for those desiring to remain a while in the depths of the great chasm.

Title: The Fire Place, Herman's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Herman's Rest on the rim of the Grand Canyon is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounger gives the visitor a sense of ease and well being.		Title: The Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1928 Jun-13

Title: The Rendezvous, El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Fred Harvey Co. El Tovar at grand canyon is built from native boulders and pine logs from far off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named for Don Pedro del Tovar, leader of a detachment of Coronado's expedition in 1540 that explored and conquered the Province of Tusayan, now known as Hopi Land.		Title: The Battleship Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Fred Harvey Co. The Battleship, a conspicuous and turreted mass of red, lies at the base of Maricopa Point. It is an example of the Canyon as a master teacher of how this earth is made. It has been said that "The Grand Canyon is the most instructive exposition of Geology in the world," and that it illustrates most clearly the origin of many types of land forms on a titanic scale.

Title: After a Storm, Bright Angel Point on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: The Rendezvous, El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar Hotel at Grand Canyon is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named after Don Pedro del Tovar, a captain in Coronado's expedition in 1540. Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: The Zig-Zags, Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Top of Red Sandstone Cliffs on Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Trail is built on the most approved engineering lines. It descends by east grades and long zig-zags to the Plateau. Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: The Fireplace, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), White Border unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest is the great fireplace. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fireplace is an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives one a sense of ease and well being, watching the snapping logs and ruddy glow of the fire.

Title: Standard Cabin, North Rim Real Photo		Title: The Start from El Tovar on a Grand Canyon Drive Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Fred Harvey El Tovar is located on the brink of the Grand Canyon, in the heart of the Coconino Forest and 7,000 feet above the sea. The hotel is built of pine logs and stone in rustic style, and is from three to four stories high. The air is cool and invigorating and the drives along the rim give one the opportunity of seeing many beautiful views of the canyon.

Title: El Tovar Hotel - Rendezvouz Divided Back unused		Title: Entrance to Bright Angel Lodge Chrome PM 1960 Aug-03

Title: Main Lodge of the Auto Cabin Camp Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: The spacious Auto Cabin Camp at the Grand Canyon National Park is near the South Rim of the awe-inspiring gorge. Operated by Fred Harvey, the camp provides comfortable accommodations for several hundred motorists.		Title: Entrance to Bright Angel Lodge Chrome unused Description: Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins are situated on the Canyon's south rim near the head of Bright Angel Trail. Attractive lounge and entertainment facilities, as well as a large coffee shop, are provided in the Main Lodge.

Title: The Rendezvous Hotel, El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Hermit's Rest Fire Place Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives one a sense of ease and well being, watching the snapping logs and ruddy glow of the fire. Fred Arvey

Title: Hopi Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: Fred Harvey sightseeing bus at Hopi Point, one of the outstanding view points on the South Rim.		Title: Verkamp's Souvenir Store White Border unused Description: Curt Teich & Co.

Title: The Grand Canyon Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1915 Sep-21 Description: After Painting by Chris Jorgenson. This painting was made at the foot of Bright Angel Trail 6866 feet below El Tovar on rim. The Colorado River flows in a trough; to the north and to the south are towering peaks, canyons, ravines and gorges. The commanding peak of the view is Zoroaster Temple 7136 feet in elevation, but whose tip is not even then level with the canyon rim.		Title: Granite Gorge Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: On The Zig Zags, Right Angle Trail, Grand Canyon Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 Oct-15		Title: View of Grand Canyon Linen unused

Title: North from Verkamp's, Gran Canyon, Arizona Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: It is here most visitors get their first glimpse of Grand Canyon. Directly across the Canyon can be seen the Kaibab Plateau, 1500 feet higher than the South Rime and 13 miles distant. Shiva Temple and Isis Temple are clearly seen to the left.		Title: Arizona State Card Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Wealth does Arizona hold In her mines and hearts of gold, In her towering Canon Grand Till she seems, "The promised Land."

Title: View in Grand Canyon Real Photo unused		Title: El Tovar Hotel Real Photo unused

Title: Bright Angel Lodge Real Photo unused		Title: View in Grand Canyon Real Photo

Title: Mule train heading into the Grand Canyon Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused		Title: Native Americans dancing at the Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused

Title: Along the Cliffs on Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back Description: Hermit Trail, the new way to the heart of the Canyon, is about nine miles west of El Tovar. It is a trail of easy grades and long zig zags, and four feet wide. Diverging from it on the plateau is the old Tonto Trail, connecting with Bright Angel, Grand View and other Canyon trails to the river. Detroit Publishing Co.		Title: The Canyon From El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: With the first view of the canyon from El Tovar one turns over in his mind all the superlatives of his vocabulary in a vain effort to find a descriptive word that fits the scene. The futility of this is evident in a little while, and the observer settles down upon the rim to try to form in simple words his idea of what the canyon really is, and what it means, as it lies there in the sun, so big, so grand and so inspiring

Title: O'Neill's Point, Grand Canyon Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1908 Jan-27		Title: The Grand Canyon Caves on Grand View Trail Post Card (Undivided Back) unused Description: One of the four gateways to the Grand Canyon, through which an easy descent of the granite gorge may be made, is Grand View Trail. Descending two and one-half miles from the rim on this trail a copper mine in full operation can be seen, and a little farther on, the famous limestone caves. These subterranean chambers have an aggregate length of several miles and some of the halls are 200 feet long and 50 feet high

Title: The Grand Canyon from Dutton Point Post Card (Undivided Back) unused Description: In the 217 miles which represent the extent of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, there is no more sublime view of this Titan of Chasms than that obtained from Dutton Point. It required fifteen years' work to cut a trail to the rock projection now known as Dutton Park. In the foreground of the picture is Point Sublime		Title: The Lookout at the Grand Canyon Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused Description: Series G-12

Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Divided Back Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, the most recent building erected by the Santa Fe for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had		Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Divided Back PM 1930 Dec-20 Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, erected for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1910 Mar-8		Title: The "Scenic" Grand Canyon Continental Chrome unused Description: The best way to experience this "Natural Wonder of the World" is aboard an ultra-quiet Scenic Airlines Vistaliner. Designed for Grand Canyon sightseeing, the Vistaliner features huge windows, a high wing, and multi-lingual tour narration. Scenic Airlines, 241 E. Reno Ave., Las VEgas, NV 89119; (702) 739-1900, Telex: 684476 SCENIC LSV, Sit: LASRRYR

Title: Babbitt Brothers Trading Company Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Continental Chrome PM 1986 Sep-22		Title: Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon National Park Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Sunset at North Rim unused		Title: Grand Canyon from Grand Canyon Lodge Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ) unused Description: Grand Canyon Lodge dinner menu

Title: Grand Canyon from Grand Canyon Lodge Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ) unused Description: Showing Zion Lodge luncheon menu		Title: Railroad Station and El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: Picturesque terminus of the special Santa Fe Railroad spur which brings thousands of visitors to view the world famous canyon

Title: Hotel El Tovan Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 Jul-30		Title: Dance of the Hope Indians Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: Late each afternoon the Hope Indians at the Grand Canyon perform their picturesque dances in front of the Hope House

Title: Painting in Indian Watchtower, Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park Linen unused Description: "Origin Legend of The Snake Priest, the first navigator of the Colorado River," one of the strange Indian picture-writings, centuries old, which adorns the interior of the Indian Watchtower at Desert View, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Painted by Fred Kabotie		Title: Santa Fe Station Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1912 Jun-4

Title: Yavapai Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: A modern motor lodge with 160 units, Yavapai Lodge offers tastefully decorated accommodations with adjacent parking to the visitor at Grand Canyon's South Rim Mike Roberts		Title: Grand Canyon National Park - On Hermit Trail Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), White Border unused		Title: Grand Canyon National Park, Hotel El Tovar Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: One of the world's most famous resort inns, picturesquely located on south rim of the Grand Canyon. Open the year 'round. This fine hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs. Its rustic dining room is internationally known for its excellent cuisine

Title: Great Falls and Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park Divided Back unused		Title: The Battleship, Grand Canyon National Park Divided Back unused Description: The Battleship, a conspicuous and turreted mass of red, lies at the base of Maricopa Point. It is an example of the Canyon as a master teacher of how this earth is made. It has been said that 'The Grand Canyon is the most instructive exposition of Geology in the world," and that it illustrates most clearly the origin of many types of land forms on a titanic scale

Title: Coffee Shop, Bright Angel Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Linen unused Description: The Coffee Shop at Bright Angel Lodge is a quaintly inviting room, with log beams and rough plaster walls. At one end is a screened terrace, for outdoor dining during the summer months		Title: Walls of the Grand Canyon From Bissell's Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1908

Title: In the Collection Room, Hope House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Several rooms in the Hope House are devoted to an exhibit of rare and interesting specimens of Indian and Mexican handicraft. Other rooms are occupied by Indians, still others have sacred altars and sand mosaics reproduced with scientific exactness and finally, a sales room containing the most interesting display of genuine Indian and Mexican handiwork in this country, gathered from all sections of the Southwest and Northwest		Title: 1000 Feet of Canyon Wall and Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: For three-quarters of a mile the trail drops westward, zigzagging back and forth, and from it many views of the canyon can be seen. It also affords can easy place and way to study the formation of the canyon for every strata is plainly distinguished as the trail drops down the wall. The temples of Buddha, Mana, Isis, Brahma, Zoroaster, and the pyramid of Creops and many other formations are visible from the trail

Title: Grand Canyon, Arizona, from Yavapai Point Divided Back unused Description: Far beyond the river gorge, where, through twelve miles of space, looms the north wall of the Canyon in all its grand symmetry of cliff and terrace, is the Bright Angel Canyon, two or three miles wide, fifteen miles in length, and deep as the main canyon itself, and second only to it in imposing grandeur		Title: Top of Red Stanstone Cliffs on Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Trail is built on the most approved engineering lines. It descends by easy grades and long zig zags to the Pleateau

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar is located on the brink of the Canyon in the heart of Coconino Forest and 7000 feet above the sea. The hotel is built of pine logs and stone in rustic style, and is from three to four stories high. The air is cool and invigorating and the drives along the rim of the Canyon give one the opportunity of seeing many beautiful views		Title: Hotel El Tovar Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world - 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremendous awe-inspiring view unequalled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the Canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eighty miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. The architect has combined in admirable proportions the Swiss chalet and Norway villa

Title: The Rendezvous, El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM 1946 Mar-24 Description: For a third of a century, El Tovar Hotel has stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon, its rustic lobby (called The Rendezvous) peopled with travelers from all over the world		Title: Dining Room, El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM Mar-24 Description: For a third of a century, El Tovar, one of America's finest resort hotels, has spread its wide-flung comfort on the Canyon's rim. The rustic dining room, with its huge fireplace, is internationally renowned for its excellent cuisine

Title: Painted Desert, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: Early Morning View Over the Painted Desert, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silence, nor an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have dimensions and color		Title: El Tovar Hotel on the Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: El Tovar Hotel is situated on an unparalleled site, 7,000 feet above sea level, on the very rim of the Grand Canyon. It was named for the Spanish conquistador, Don Pedro de Tovar, whose memory is linked with the discovery of the Grand Canyon by Coronado's soldiers in 1540

Title: Northwest From Pima Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: The elevation of Pima Point is 6,350 feet; that of Point Sublime slightly northwest across on the north wall of the Canyon is 7,764 feet; while Tiyo Point also on the north but slightly to the east of Pima Point is 7,765 feet in altitude. The plateau to the north of the canyon has an average elevation about 1,000 feet greater than the plateau to the south		Title: Sunset in the Granite Gorge Linen unused Description: Long may the visitor loiter upon the verge, powerless to shake loose from the charm, tirelessly intent upon the silent transformations until the sun is low in the west. Then the canyon sinks into mysterious purple shadow; darkness falls, and should there be a moon, the scene in part revives in silver light, a thousand spectral forms projected from inscrutable gloom

Title: The Colorado River at Foot of Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: Going down Bright Angel Trail, one gains an abiding sense of the real proportions of the Canyon. For the first two miles the descent is a sort of a Jacob's Ladder, zig-zagging at an unrelenting pitch. At the end of two miles a comparatively gentle slope is reached. Then the final trail begins through the Granite Gorge towards the Colorado River		Title: Granit Gorge from Bright Angel Trail Divided Back unused Description: Down by the river the walls are composed of black gneiss, slates and schists, traversed by dikes of granite. Then there are 800 feet of quartzites, then 500 feet of greenish sandstone, then 700 feet called alcove limestone, above which is 1600 feet of limestone, known as redwall limestone, then 800 feet of banded sandstone and at the top 1000 feet of Aubrey limestone. These are the elements with which the walls are constructed, from black buttress below to alabaster tower above

Title: Grand Canyon, Arizona, from Hopi Point Divided Back unused Description: The scene constantly changes. While one looks the colors turn from one shade to another and then change color. It is hardly imaginable that the opposite Canyon wall is 13 miles away. The mind is unused to grasping such tremendous things. At first one is not impressed by this, yet slowly but surely incredulity is changed to possibility, and doubt is changed to belief		Title: Sunset from Mojave Point Divided Back Description: Down in the Granite Gorge you can see the river and in the distance the North Wall and the plateau beyond and all between is a panorama of peaks and minarets, pinnacles and towers, castles in Spain and fairy turrets, of glowing colors and high lights, shadows and clouds blended by a blue haze like on the highest mountain peaks and over all is silence

Title: Northwest from Pima Point Divided Back unused Description: The elevation at Pima Point is 6350 feet, that of Point Sublime slightly northwest across on the north wall of the Canyon is 7764 feet, while Tiyo Point also on the north but slightly to the east of Pima Point is 7765 feet in altitude. The plateau to the north of the Canyon has an average elevation about 1000 feet greater than the plateau to the south		Title: Grand Canyon, Arizona, From Hotel El Tovar Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: From the parapet of El Tovar one can see the Battle Ship, Temple of Isis, the Plateau, Bright Angel Point, and Bright Angel Creek and Canyon. Bright Angel Canyon, deep as the main canyon, is second only to it in beauty

Title: Grand Canyon from Summit of Bright Angel Trail Divided Back unused Description: Far beyond the gloomy and forbidding river gorge, where through twelve miles of space, looms the north wall of the canyon in all its grand symmetry of cliff and terrace, we note as our eyes become more accustomed to the variety of form and color a towering gateway opening away into a deep and dizzy gulf that recedes far into Daibab Plateau. This is the Bright Angel Amphitheatre, a noble canyon valley two or three miles wide, fifteen miles in length, and deep as the main canyon itself, and second only to it in imposing grandeur. Through its center flows Bright Angel Creek, the Colorado's most beautiful tributary		Title: Eroded Column, Near O'Neill's Point Divided Back unused

Title: Granite Gorge from Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Detroit Photographic Co		Title: After a storm - across the canyon from Pima Point Divided Back unused Description: The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silence, nor an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have dimension and color

Title: Grand Canyon from summit of Bright Angel Trail Divided Back unused Description: Far beyond the gloomy and forbidding river gorge, where, through twelve miles of space, looms the north wall of the canyon in all its grand symmetry of cliff and terrace, we note as our eyes become more accustomed to the variety of form and color a towering gateway opening away into a deep and dizzy gulf that recedes far into Kaibab plateau. This is the Bright Angel Amphitheater, a noble canyon valley two or three miles wide, fifteen miles in length, and deep as the main canyon itself, and second only to it in imposing grandeur. Through its center flows Bright Angel Creek, the Colorado's most beautiful tributary		Title: The Zig-Zags, Bright Angel Trail Divided Back unused Description: The Grand Canyon is a trough 6000 to 7000 feet deep, ten to twenty miles wide, hundreds of miles long, peopled with hundreds of peaks taller than any mountain east of the Rockies, and all ablaze with such color as no Eastern or European landscape ever knew. And as you sit on the brink the Divine Scene-Shifter gives you a new canyon every hour; with each degree of the sun's course the great countersunk mountains fade away and new ones are carved by the westering shadows. The Canyon is not only the hugest but the most varied example on earth of one of the chief factors of earth building -- erosion

Title: The Stairs to Hermit's Rest Divided Back		Title: After a Storm - Across the canyon from Pima Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silence, nor an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have dimension and color

Title: The Battleship Divided Back unused Description: The Battleship, a conspicuous and turreted mass of red, lies at the base of Maricopa Point. It is an example of the Canyon as a master teacher of how this earth is made. It has been said that "The Grand Canyon is the most instructive exposition of Geology in the world," and that it illustrates most clearly the origin of many types of land forms on a titanic scale		Title: Grand Canyon of Arizona Divided Back unused Description: The Grand Canyon, sublimest of gorges, a perpendicular mile from rim to river (seven miles by trail) and thirteen dizzy miles across to the opposite canyon wall! Eluding all sense of perspective or dimension, outstretching the faculty of measurement, a boding, terrible thing, unflinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream. A labyrinth of architectural forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with ornamental devices, and painted with every color known to the palette in pure transparent tones of marvelous delicacy

Title: Hanging Rock, Grand View Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Devil's Corkscrew on Bright Angel Trail Divided Back unused Description: From the head of the Corkscrew may be seen the Temple of Zoroaster, the Temple of Brahma, Deva Temple, the Temple of Buddha and Manu Temple. These rock formations have been given these names by the many unprofessional lovers of nature who have visited the Grand Canyon. The Canyon flashes instant communication of all that architecture and painting and music for a thousand years have gropingly striven to express. It is the soul of Michael Angelo and Beethoven

Title: Grand Canyon of Arizona Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Colorado River at Mouth of Boucher Creek Divided Back unused Description: The Colorado River, that looks like a silver thread from the rim of Grand Canyon, is really one of the great waterways of this continent. It is one of the two principal Western tributaries and drains over 150,000 square miles of territory. It rises in Utah at the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers, and flows for hundreds of miles through canyon walls

Title: Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon of Arizona Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world - 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremenduous, awe-inspiring view unequalled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the Canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eight miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. The architect has combined in admirable proportions the Swiss chalet and the Norway villa		Title: From Vavapai Point Divided Back unused Description: "Long may the visitor loiter upon the verge, powerless to shake loose from the charm, tirelessly intent upon the silent transformations until the sun is low in the west. Then the canyon sinks into mysterious purple shadow, darkness falls, and should there be a moon, the scene in part revives in silver light, a thousand spectral forms projected from inscrutable gloom."

Title: After the storm, across the Canyon from Pima Point Divided Back Description: The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silence, nor an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have dimension and color		Title: The Porch, "Hermit's Rest" Divided Back unused Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, the most recent building erected by the Santa Fe for the convenience of the traveller at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon is obtained. After the long ride over the Hermit Rim Road and down Hermit Trail, the porch, with its cool quiet and easy lounging chairs, is most inviting

Title: Grand Canyon of Arizona, Across from O'Neill's point Divided Back unused		Title: The Grand Canyon of Arizona Divided Back unused Description: "Never was picture more harmonious; never flower more exquisitely beautiful. It flashes instant communication of all that architecture and painting and music for a thousand years have gropingly striven to express."

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world - 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremendous, awe-inspiring view unequalled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the Canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eighty miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. The architect has combined an admirable proportions the Swiss chalet and the Norway villa		Title: Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The Santa Fe has erected at Grand Canyon another of its unique buildings and happily christened it Hermit's Rest. Nestling among the rocks and trees, constructed of native stone and rough hewn logs, and overlooking the gorge, it has already become an integral part of Canyon Life

Title: El Tovar Hotel - Dining Room, Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: For a third of a century El Tovar, one of America's finest resort hotels, has spread its wide-flung comfort on the Canyon's rim. The rustic dining room, with its huge fireplace, is internationally renowned for its excellent cuisine		Title: The Towering Cliffs Above Hermit Camp Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Rim Road is a driveway 30 feet wide, built of crushed stone rolled to a smooth hard surface and sprinkled with crude oil, and leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail. From there a wide bridle path that can hardly be called a trail, of a comfortable grade and with substantial wall on the outer edge, leads into the Canyon. At the first level is Hermit Camp, maintained for those desiring to remain a while in the depths of the Canyon

Title: The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives one a sense of ease and well being, watching the snapping logs and ruddy glow of the fire		Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, the most recent building erected by the Santa Fe for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had

Title: Grand View Point, Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Clouds and Shadows near El Tovar, Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back

Title: The Canyon Seen Through Pines on the Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1920 Jun-15 Description: Standing upon the brink of the plateau at the point of the Canyon's greatest width and depth, the beholder is confronted by a scene whose majesty and beauty are well nigh unbearable. It is a new world compelling the tribute of sensations whose intensity exceeds the familiar signification of words. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful		Title: Native Deer on Steps of Bright Angel Lodge Arizona (AZ), Linen PM 1954 Aug-13 Description: Grand Canyon visitors can frequently see native deer browsing about the grounds of El Tovar Hotel and Bright Angel Lodge. Wild deer of this species abound in the nearby Kaibab National Forest

Title: Lee's Ferry Bridge over Colorado River Divided Back Description: Grand Canyon Bridge across the Colorado River at historic Lee's Ferry site, one hundred forty three miles north-east of El Tovar. This bridge is four hundred sixty seven feet above the river with a span of eight hundred thirty three feet. It is the only means by which automobiles can cross from the South Rim to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon within the bounds of the State of Arizona		Title: Lookout at Mather Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Jumbo/Large Format unused Description: Excellent views may be seen from this prominent Mather Point. Spacious parking facilities are provided for the visitors. The location is easily reached from the village on the Rim Drive to the East

Title: Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Jumbo/Large Format unused Description: Visitors marvel at the light changes and shifting moods of the mighty canyon		Title: Panting in Indian Watchtower Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: "Origin Legend of the Snake Priest, the first navigator of the Colorado River," one of the strange Indian picture-writings, centuries old, which adorns the interior of the Indian Watchtower at Desert View Grand Canyon, Arizona. Painted by Fred Kabotie

Title: Paiting in Indian Watchtower Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: "Origin Legend of The Snake Priest, the first navigator of the Colorado River," one of the strange Indian picture-writings, centuries old, which adorns the interor of the Indian Watchtower at Desert View, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Painted by Fred Kabotie		Title: Dining Room, Grand Canyon Lodge, North Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM 1941 Sep-18 Description: What a thrill to dine on the rim of the Grand Canyon! This is the only place on either rim where such an opportunity presents itself. During the dinner hour guests may enjoy the unique experience of viewing the famous Grand Canyon sunset to the accompaniment of soft organ music. College girls act as waitresses and provide musical entertainment each evening in the Recreation Hall. Reached via Union Pacific Railroad to Cedar City, thence by interesting motor bus tour

Title: Painting in Indian Watchtower, Desert View Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: "Origin Legend of the Snake Priest, the first navigator of the Colorado River," one of the strange Indian picture-writings, centuries old, which adorns the interior of the Indian Watchtower at Desert View, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Painted by Fred Kabotie		Title: Hopi Point on the Grand Canyon Rim Drive Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: A considerable extent of the Colorado River is seen from Hopi Point, an important stop on the famous Grand Canyon Rim Drive. Even though it is several miles away, the muddiness of the river is plainly visible as it flows its swift and tumultuous course

Title: Early Morning Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused		Title: Grand Canyon View Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Real Photo unused

Title: Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: Hermit's Rest, at the western terminus of The Grand Canyon Rim Drive, is considered one of America's best examples of hidden architecture. - "A striking cave-home in the cliffs, but of majestic proportions. The rough and unhewn rocks have been cunningly put into place so that from the exterior one can scarce tell where cliff ends and building begins". - George Wharton James		Title: Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1926 Nov Description: The Santa Fe has erected at Grand Canyon another of its unique buildings and happily christened it Hermit's Rest. Nestling among the rocks and trees, constructed of native stone and rough hewn longs, and overlooking the gorge, ti has already become an integral part of canyon life

Title: On the zig zags, Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1905		Title: On the Zig Zags, Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Eroded Column, Near O'Neill's Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Grand Canyon of Arizona from Hotel el Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Starting down Grand View Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Looking across the Grand Canyon from Bright Angel Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Looking across the Grand Canyon from Bright Angel Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1905 Nov-11

Title: Down the Canyon from the El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused		Title: Down Granite Gorge from Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Title: Down Granite Gorge, from Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1907		Title: A Storm in the Canyon, Near Hotel el Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hamlin Garland thus describes a storm in the Canyon. "The whole vast chasm was roofed with masses of grey clouds ranked closely and hurrying swiftly, all the distracting lines of the Canyon were lost and the haphazard coloring was made harmonious by deep blue curtains of mist. Here was a new phase of the Canyon. I began to understand it had a thousand differing words. It is like a mountain range, a cloud today, a wall of marble tomorrow. When the light falls into it it is harsh, but the storm will transform it into a splendor no mountain range can surpass. Peaks will shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire, and gray green mesas take on the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water."

Title: Dining Room, Bright Angel Lodge Grand Canyon National park Arizona (AZ), Chrome Description: Situated on Grand Canyon's South Rim, this attractive dining room, with a seating capacity of 225, offers an excellent ala carte and table d'hote menu		Title: The Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The Grand Canyon is not a mere narrow frowning gash of incredible depth, but a broad underworld that reaches to the uttermost horizon and seems as vast as the earth itself, studded with immeasurable pyramidal mountains of massive bulk hewn from gaudiest rock strata that barely lift the cones and turrets of their crests to the level of the eye, and banded over all with vivid colors of transparent brilliancy that are harmonized by atmosphere and refraction to a marvelous delicacy

Title: The Start from El Tovar on a Grand Canyon Drive Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar is located on the brink of the Grande Canyon, in the heart of the Coconino Forest and 7,000 feet above the sea. The hotel is built of pine logs and stone in rustic style, and is from three to fours stories high. The air is cool and invigorating and the drives along the rim give one the opportunity of seeing many beautiful views of the Canyon. This titanic rift in Earth's crust is directly reached by the Santa Fe, on the way to or from California		Title: Thor's Hammer Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The details of the structure of the Grand Canyon can be seen only at close view, but grand effects of the whole can be witnessed in great panoramic scenes. Seen in detail gorges and precipices appear, seen at a distance, in comprehensive views, vast massive structures are presented. The traveler on the brink looks from afar and is overwhelmed with the sublimity of massive forms; the traveler among the gorges stands in the presence of awful mysteries profound, solemn and gloomy

Title: Grand Canyon from Jacob's Ladder Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back Description: The first two miles of the descent of Bright Angel Trail zig-zags at an unrelenting pitch - a sort of Jacob's Ladder. From Jacob's Ladder on Bright Angel Trail may be seen Shiva Temple, Isis Temple, the Temple of Buddha, Temple of Zoroaster, and the Temple of Brahms		Title: Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back Description: The Hopi House is an exact reproduction of a Hopi Indian pueblo. It is an irregular stone structure plastered with adobe and rising three stories high. Here are Hopi men, women and children. Some decorating and burning pottery, others spinning yarn and weaving squaw dresses and blankets, and perhaps some maiden weaving a basket. Hopi land is the old province of Tusayan on the border of the Painted Desert. Several rooms in the Hopi House are devoted to a rare and costly exhibit of Indian handcraft

Title: The Porchb at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, the most recent building erected by the Santa Fe for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had		Title: Hotel el Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar at Grand Canyon is built of native boulders and pine logs from far off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named after Don Pedro del Tovar, leader of a detachment of Coronado's Expedition in 1540 that explored and conquered the Province of Tusayan, now known as Hopi Land

Title: Battleship Rock and Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: Of the Canyon's many fantastic rock formations, the "Battleship" is perhaps the most familiar, as it dominates the view from Grand Canyon Village		Title: Grand Canyon Squire Inn Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: Jerry Zagst The Squire's friendly resort atmosphere allows you to enjoy a variety of great food and beverages served in the Squire's restaurants and lounges. Shop for authentic Southwestern art in our gift shop, then top off a wonderful day by relaxing in the Squire's recreation center which offers a whirlpool, sauna and six lane bowling alley. Fun for the entire family! 5 miles south of National Park South Rim on AZ Hwy 64 and US 180. A Best Western Motel

Title: The Hope House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906 Mar-3		Title: Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins, on the Canyon's Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: The rambling, one-story structures of Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins form a picturesque group on the Canyon's rim - a little village of log, stone and adobe that seems to have magically grown up from its natural surroundings

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world - 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremendous awe inspiring view unequalled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eight miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. The architect has combined in admirable proportions the Swiss chalet and the Norway villa		Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), White Border PM 1926 Dec-23 Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, erected for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had

Title: Storm Clouds in the Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: The Arch at hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: After a Storm Across The Canyon From Pima Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silence, not an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have dimension and color		Title: Looking Northeast from Mojave Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Across the canyon from Mojave Point thirteen miles away is Kaibab Plateau. This view comprises Cheops Pyramid, Isis Temple, Buddha Temple, Brahma Temple and the Temple of Zoroaster, and a glimpse of Bright Angel Point far away on the north wall of the Canyon. In the distance is Walhalla Plateau Fred Harvey

Title: Sunrise from Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Until recently the traveler who desired to explore the depths of Grand Canyon had little choice in trails and those who feared great heights and sheer precipices were at times anxious. Now there is a wide bridle path - it can hardly be called a trail - of comfortable grade and with a substantial wall on the outer edge leading into the canyon at one of its most beautiful points. THe new road is called "Hermit Trail" and parties go over it daily from El Tovar and Bright Angel Camp		Title: Grand View Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Sunrise from Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Until recently the traveler who desired to explore the depths of Grand Canyon had little choice in trails and those who feared great heights and sheer precipices were at times anxious. Now there is a wide bridle path - it can hardly be called a trail of comfortable grade and with a substantial wall on the outer edge leading into the Canyon at one of its most beautiful points. The new road is called "Hermit Trail" and parties go over it daily from El Tovar and Bright Angel Camp Fred Harvey		Title: Eroded column near Yavapai (O'Neill's) Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back Description: From O'Neil's Point can be seen the Temple of Isis, Temple if Buddha, Temple of Mana, the Haunted Canyon and on the opposite wall, Point Subline (7650 feet). O'Neil's Point was named for "Buckey" O'Neil, an early friend of the Canyon, whose death with Roosevelt in Cuba removed a very interesting and noble character

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: One of the world's most famous resort inns, picturesquely located on south rim of Grand Canyon. This fine hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs. Its rustic dining room is internationally known for its excellent cuisine		Title: El Tovar Hotel Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: One of the world's most famous resort inns. El Tovar is picturesquely located on the South Rim of Grand Canyon. Its rustic dining room, seating 250, and its attractive cocktail lounge with a capacity of 40, are internationally known for their excellent cuisine

Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), White Border Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had		Title: Grand Canyon Hotel, Yellowstone Park Linen unused Description: Situated only a quarter of a mile from the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is the remarkable Grand Canyon Hotel, one of the popular hostelries of the park, which afford metropolitan accomodations, and courteous and efficient service Curt Teich & Co. Inc

Title: Cape Horn on Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The various rock formations of the Grand Canyon have been given distinguishing names by scientists and nature lovers. Thus from Cape Horn on Bright Angel Trail one sees "The Battleship," the "Pyramid of Cheops," "Isis Temple" and the "Temple of Buddha." Also directly across the Canyon Bright Angel Creek may be seen		Title: Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1912 May-6 Description: The Hopi House is an exact reproduction of a Hopi Indian pueblo. It is an irregular stone structure plastered with adobe and rising three stories high. Here are Hopi men, women and children. Some decorating and burning pottery, others spinning yarn and weaving squaw dresses and blankets, and perhaps some maiden weaving a basket. Hopi land is the old province of Tusayan on the border of the Painted Desert. Several rooms in the Hopi House are devoted to a rare and costly exhibit of Indian handicraft

Title: The Zig-Zags on Bright Angel Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The Grand Canyon is a trough 6000 to 7000 feet deep, ten to twenty miles wide, hundreds of miles long, peopled with hundreds of peaks taller than any mountain east of the Rockies, and all ablaze with such color as no Eastern or European landscape ever knew. And as you sit on the brink the Divine Scene-Shifter gives you a new canyon every hour; with each degree of the sun's course the great countersunk mountains fade away and new ones are carved by the westering shadows Detroit Publishing Co		Title: Zoroaster from The River Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: When you go down Bright Angel Trail you will gain an abiding sense of the real proportions of the canyon. For the first two miles the decent is sort of a Jacob's Ladder, zigzagging at an unrelenting pitch. At the end of two miles a comparatively gentle slope is reached. On the way are the Indian Gardens. Looking back from this level the huge towers that border the rim shrink to pigmies, yet less than one-half the decent has been made. Then the final trail begins through the granite towards the river. At the foot of the trail is the river, from which point is seen the Temple of Zoroaster

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world - 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremendous, awe-inspiring view unequalled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the Canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eighty miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. The architect has combined in admirable proportions the Swiss chalet and the Norway villa		Title: The Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: The Stairs to Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Sunset from Mohave Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Down in the Granite Gorge you can see the river and in the distance the North Wall and the Plateau beyond and all between is a panorama of peaks and minarets, pinnacles and towers, castles in Spain and fairy turrets, of glowing colors and high lights, shadows and clouds blended by a blue haze like on the highest mountain peaks and over all is silence

Title: The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest on the rime of the Grand Canyon is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives the visitor a sense of ease and well being		Title: An Indian Dance in Front of the Hopi House Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Desert View, Looking North Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Standing upon the brink of the plateau at the point of the Canyon's greatest width and depth, the beholder is confronted by a scene whose majesty and beauty are well nigh unbearable and when the shadows of evening descend over the great chasm, it is a new world compelling the tribute of sensations whose intensity exceeds the familiar signification of words. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful		Title: On Hermit Trail, 1700 feet below the rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Trail, the easiest way to the heart of the Canyon, is about nine miles west of El Tovar. It is a trail of easy grades and long zig zags, and four feet wide. Diverging from it on the plateau is the old Tonto Trail, connecting with Bright Angel, Grand View and other Canyon trails to the river

Title: Hermit Creek Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused		Title: Looking Northeast From Mojave Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Across the canyon from Mojave Point thirteen miles away is Kaibab Plateau. This view comprises Cheops Pyramid, Isis Temple, Buddha Temple, Brahma Temple, and the Temple of Zoroaster, and a glimpse of Bright Angel Point far away on the north wall of the Canyon. In the distance is Walhalla Plateau

Title: Looking Across the Canyon from Cape Horn, Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The Grand Canyon is a terrific trough, all ablaze with color, 6000 to 7000 feet deep, ten to thirteen miles wide, hundreds of miles long, peopled with hundreds of peaks taller than any mountain east of the Rockies, yet not one of them with its head as high as your feet		Title: Sunrise In Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: "The panorama is the real overmastering charm. It is never twice the same. Although you think you have spelt out every temple and peak and escarpment, as the angle of the sunlight changes there begins a ghostly advance of colossal forms from the farther side, and what you had taken to be the ultimate wall is seen to be made up of still other isolated sculptures, revealed now for the first time."

Title: Sunset from Mojave Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Down in the Granite Gorge you can see the river and in the distance the North Wall and the plateau beyond and all between is a panorama of peaks and minarets, pinnacles and towers, castles in Spain and fairy turrets, of glowing colors and high lights, shadows and clouds blended by a blue haze like on the highest mountain peaks and over all is silence Detroit Publishing Co		Title: The Canyon seen through the Pines on the Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Standing upon the brink of the plateau at the point of the Canyon's greatest width and depth, the beholder is confronted by a scene whose majesty and beauty are well nigh unbearable. It is a new world compelling the tribute of sensations whose intensity exceeds the familiar signification of words. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful

Title: The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest on the rim of the Grand Canyon is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives the visitor a sense of ease and well being		Title: No Man's Land, from Near Hermit Trail Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: "The beholder is at first unimpressed by any detail; one is overwhelmed by the ensemble of a stupendous panorama, a thousand square miles in extent, that lies wholly beneath the eye, as if one stood upon a mountain peak instead of the level brink of a fearful chasm in the plateau whose opposite shore is thirteen miles away."

Title: The Arch At Hermit's Rest Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Detroit Publishing Co		Title: The Towering Cliffs above Hermit Camp Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Hermit Rim Road is a driveway 30 feet wide, built of crushed stone rolled to a smooth hard surface and sprinkled with crude oil, and leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail. From there a wide bridle path that can hardly be called a trail leads into the Canyon. At the first level is Hermit Camp, maintained or those desiring to remain awhile in the depths of the great chasm

Title: After a Storm - Across the Canyon From Pima Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silence, nor an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have dimension and color		Title: From Grand View Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused

Title: Storm Scene from Grand View Point Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Joaquin Miller thus describes a storm in the Canyon which he witnessed: "The battles of the elements roared far below us and all the time, as far as the eye could reach, the white clouds curled, drifted, drooped, died, then rose again. The thunder at intervals was fearfully impressive. We felt at one time that the temples, towers, and battlements of red which burst here and there among the thunder clouds, must be crumbled into dust. The lightening continually wrote the autograph of God on and through the clouds at our feet, but when the clouds would part, all would be as before		Title: The Porch at Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: From the wide comfortable porch of Hermit's Rest, erected for the convenience and comfort of the traveler at Grand Canyon, a far reaching and most interesting view of the Canyon can be had Detroit Publishing Co

Title: The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest is the great fireplace. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounges gives one a sense of ease and well being, watching the snapping logs and ruddy glow of the fire		Title: River Erosion Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back unused Description: Milwaukee Public Museum Group. River Erosion - Grand Canyon, Arizona. This group shows the Grand Canyon of the Colorado from Yavapi Point, where it is approximately fourteen miles wide and a mile deep. This canyon is unique, by reason of its great size and the temples and buttes left standing in it. The colors and forms of the rock monuments combine to make this "the most sublime spectacle of the world."

Title: Thor's Hammer Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1918 Nov-6 Description: "The details of the structure of the Grand Canyon can be seen only at close view, but grand effects of the whole can be witnessed in great panoramic scenes. Seen in detail gorges and precipices appear, seen at a distance, in comprehensive views, vast massive structures are presented. The traveler on the brink looks from afar and is overwhelmed with the sublimity of massive forms; the traveler among the gorges stands in the presence of awful mysteries, profound, solemn and gloomy."		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Divided Back PM 1928 Oct-30 Description: El Tovar at Grand Canyon is built of native boulders and pine logs from far off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named after Don Pedro del Tovar, leader of a detachment of Coronado's expedition in 1540 that explored and conquered the Province of Tusayan, now known as Hopi land

Title: Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins, on the Canyon's Rim Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: The rambling, one-story structures of Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins form a picturesque group on the Canyon's rim--a little village of log, stone and adobe that seems to have magically grown up from its natural surroundings		Title: Hotel El Tovar Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen PM 1953 May-23 Description: Sitauted on an unparalleled site on the rim of the Canyon, El Tovar is one of the most famous resort hotels in the Southwest. It is a long, low structure of native boulders and pine logs

Title: Cameroon Trading Post Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Chrome unused Description: On the Navajo Trail and at the East entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona		Title: Clouds and Shadows Grand Canyon National Park Arizona (AZ), Linen unused Description: "The whole vast chasm was roofed with masses of grey clouds ranked closely and hurrying swiftly, all the distracting lines of the Canyon were lost and the haphazard coloring was made harmonious by deep blue curtains of mist. Here was a new phase of the Canyon. When the light falls into it, it is harsh, but the storm will transform it into a splendor no mountain range can surpass. Peaks will shift and glow, walls darken, crags take fire, and grey-green mesa take on the gleam of opalescent lakes of mountain water." - Hamiln Garland

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