The Grand Canyon
Photograph
Office of War Information
American, 1942–1945
The Grand Canyon
ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Image: 4 1/2 × 7 3/16 in. (11.5 × 18.3 cm)
Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith, 2011
Inscriptions printed in image on recto, BLC: S-4820-10
inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 2015 [sideways]
typed on applied label affixed to verso, LC: FFG. \ 10. The Grand Canyon, in the U.S. national \ park of that name in Arizona, is reached ac- \ ross a level, forest-covered plain, and the \ visitor knows nothing of its magnitude and \ color until he stands upon the rim of the \ canyon itself and the scene bursts suddenly \ upon him. Here the surface of the earth drops \ away to a total depth of one mile (1.6 kil- \ ometers.)
inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 2015 [sideways]
typed on applied label affixed to verso, LC: FFG. \ 10. The Grand Canyon, in the U.S. national \ park of that name in Arizona, is reached ac- \ ross a level, forest-covered plain, and the \ visitor knows nothing of its magnitude and \ color until he stands upon the rim of the \ canyon itself and the scene bursts suddenly \ upon him. Here the surface of the earth drops \ away to a total depth of one mile (1.6 kil- \ ometers.)
