Pa-vai-o-wits. (Lower Lake in Lake Canon): Views on Kanab Creek.
Washington DC: U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains, 1873. Albumen stereoview [11 cm x 15.5 cm] on a yellow J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson mount [11.5 cm x 17.5 cm] with a printed paper label on the reverse. Strong contrasts. Gentle sunning and minor staining to extremities. Item #8183
View of the Three Lakes Canyon in southeastern Utah. Views on Kanab Creek. This stream heads in Southern Utah and runs south until it empties into the Colorado River, about midway in the course of the Grand Canon. Middle Canon of the Kanab is a gorge cut by the stream through the Vermillion Cliffs.
Jack Hillers (1840-1882) was working as a teamster in Salt Lake City when he met John Wesley Powell, the following year (1871) he was hired by Powell as a boatman for his second expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. He slowly replaced Clements Powell (John's cousin) as the assistant to the photographer (first E.O. Beaman then James Fennemore). Hillers worked hard and was likable and he picked up the art of photography quickly, soon he was the main photographer on Powell's trips and would go on to work for the B.A.E. for years.
Price: $75.00