Ruins in Cañon de Chelle [front]

File name: 13_04_000121a

Plate number: No. 21

Title: Ruins in Cañon de Chelle [front]

Creator/Contributor: O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 (photographer)

Created/Published: [Washington, D.C.] : War Dept., Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army

Date issued: 1875 (inferred)

Date created: 1873

Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 11 x 18 cm.

Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints; Expedition photographs

Summary: Ruins in Cañon de Chelle, N.M., in a cavity in the wall, 60 feet above present bed of Cañon. Height of walls about 700 feet. The present race of Indians know nothing of the age of these building or who occupied them. (For details, see forthcoming report of Lieutenant Wheeler on Ancient Ruins.)

Notes: Title from item.; On item: War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1873. 1st. Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, Commanding.; Plate number: No. 21

Source: : Stereographs from geographical explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874 - 1st. Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, commanding

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

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