Pinnacles

Pinnacles

Photograph

John K. Hillers

Maker
American, b. Germany, 1843–1925

Pinnacles

From U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Views on the Kai-Par-O-Wits Plateau


1875
Albumen silver print
Each Image: 10.6 x 7.7 cm
Mount: 11.3 x 17.7 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
2009.0300.0008
Inscriptions verso (printed in black on applied label): Department of the Interior, / U.S. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES, / Second Division, J. W. POWELL in charge. / 1875 / VIEWS ON THE KAI-PAR-O-WITS [sic] PLATEAU. / This is one of the series of the great plateaus in southeastern Utah. It has / an area of about 900 square miles and an average elevation of 9,000 feet. / Pinnacles. / No. 169. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY HILLERS.
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