Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0220Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is a wide shot of the Grand Canyon, in the foregrand are several people standing on a walkway leading to a viewing platform. Above the image "T143 (Star)" is printed, below the image "29096 Grand Canyon from El Tovar Hotel, Arizona." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
29096
ACROSS THE CANYON FROM EL TOVAR
A stupendous spectacle lies spread before us, for sublime majestic splendor without an equal in all the world. Grand Canyon is a supreme achievement of nature, its immensity transcending comprehension. One grasps in vain for the reaches of consciousness that will equal the mighty scene, but it exceeds our feeble limitations. Its vastness, whether measued in terms of miles or the aeons of tiem required for its formation, baffles the imagination. Only in a meditative, superconscious mood can we reach an appropriate appreciation of the grandeur that is the Grand Canyon.
The scene awes the beholder to silence, and mere words become as paltry profanation. Looking upon this marvel of architectural desgin of planetary proportions, it is as though one had suddenly come nearer to the Great Prescence, the Master Workman.
Most visitors first view the Canyon from this point. None perhaps could be more fortunate. Here is revealed the general outline and the canyon's conformation, stratification and coloring withour disclosing the whole. The view is restricted by the extension of Grandeur Point on the right and Maricopa (pronunciation) point on the left. These points cut off from view the great reaches of the Canyon east and west. The view is like a framed picture of limited size, yet quite vast enough for an intial introduciton to this supreme scenic wonderland.
We are on the south rim. The opposite wall is thriteen miles distant. In the depths below - one miles measured straight downward - but out of sight at thsi point flows the Colorado whose turbulent roar rarely reaches this upper stillness. The river can be seen at other point both to the east and west of El Tovar.
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Photograph Collection