Looking across Hell's Canyon of the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho
Photograph
Irving B. Lincoln
Maker
Looking across Hell's Canyon of the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho
ca. 1940
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 1/8 × 13 3/4 in. (25.7 × 35 cm)
Gift of Thomas J. Maloney, 1975
Inscriptions [crop lines and marks in pencil throughout verso]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: L3 [circled]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TRC: 67 [sideways]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: US Camera
inscribed in pencil on verso, C: 10 1/8" [crossed out] \ Spread
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: 5 15/16 [crossed out]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: Edna Bennett
inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 18 1/4" [circled]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 131 3/4 [circled]
inscribed on applied label affixed to verso, TC: 3 [circled]
typed on applied label affixed to verso, TC: 79-23 - Looking across Hell's Canyon of the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. \ View taken from Lookout Mountain in the Wallowa on the Oregon side looking across \ to the Seven Devils Mountains in Idaho. The elevation of the river shown at the \ bottom of the picture at this point is 1500 feet above sea level. Lookout Moun- \ tain has an elevation of 6795 feet. The elevation of He Devil across the canyon \ is 9387 feet and the distance across the canyon between the two points is about \ 8 miles. The river in elevation is 5295 feet below Lookout Mountain and 7887 feet \ in elevation below He Devil Mountain and 6500 feet in elevation below Granite \ Mountain, less than three miles east of the River. Hat Point Lookout, which is \ just to the north of Lookout Mountain has an elevation of 7000 feet and is about \ 3 1/2 miles horizontally from the bank of the river and 5500 feet vertically above it \ Irving B. Lincoln \ 221 American Bank Bldg., \ Portland, Oregon.
inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: L3 [circled]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TRC: 67 [sideways]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: US Camera
inscribed in pencil on verso, C: 10 1/8" [crossed out] \ Spread
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: 5 15/16 [crossed out]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: Edna Bennett
inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 18 1/4" [circled]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 131 3/4 [circled]
inscribed on applied label affixed to verso, TC: 3 [circled]
typed on applied label affixed to verso, TC: 79-23 - Looking across Hell's Canyon of the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. \ View taken from Lookout Mountain in the Wallowa on the Oregon side looking across \ to the Seven Devils Mountains in Idaho. The elevation of the river shown at the \ bottom of the picture at this point is 1500 feet above sea level. Lookout Moun- \ tain has an elevation of 6795 feet. The elevation of He Devil across the canyon \ is 9387 feet and the distance across the canyon between the two points is about \ 8 miles. The river in elevation is 5295 feet below Lookout Mountain and 7887 feet \ in elevation below He Devil Mountain and 6500 feet in elevation below Granite \ Mountain, less than three miles east of the River. Hat Point Lookout, which is \ just to the north of Lookout Mountain has an elevation of 7000 feet and is about \ 3 1/2 miles horizontally from the bank of the river and 5500 feet vertically above it \ Irving B. Lincoln \ 221 American Bank Bldg., \ Portland, Oregon.
