Log Jam, North Petrified Forest, near Adamana, Arizona.Original Image
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A few miles from Adamana, on the Santa Fe, is one of the marvels for which Arizona is famous.Original Image
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Northwest from Pima Point, Grand Canyon national Park, Arizona.Original Image
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The elevation at Pima Point is 6350 feet, that of Point Sublime slightly northwest across on the wall of the Canyon is 7764 feet, while Tiyo Point also on the north but slightly to the east of Pima Point is 7765 feet in altitude. The plateau to the north of the Canyon has an average elevation about 1000 feet greater than the palteau to the south.Original Image
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Looking down Cathedral Stairs on Hermit Trail, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Hermit Rim Road is a drvieway 30 feet wide, built with crushed stone rolled to a smooth hard surface and sprinkled with crude oil, and leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail. From there a wide bridle path can hardly be called a trail, of a comfortable grade and with substantial wall on the outer edge, leas into the Canyon. At the first level is Hermit Camp, maintained for those desiring to remain a while in the depths of the Canyon.Original Image
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The towering cliffs above Hermit Camp, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Hermit Rim Road is a drvieway 30 feet wide, built with crushed stone rolled to a smooth hard surface and sprinkled with crude oil, and leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail. From there a wide bridle path can hardly be called a trail, of a comfortable grade and with substantial wall on the outer edge, leas into the Canyon. At the first level is Hermit Camp, maintained for those desiring to remain a while in the depths of the Canyon.Original Image
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Thirteen hundred feet above the Colorado River.Original Image
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Bright Angel Trail descends into the Canyon and few rods west of El Tovar Hotel and affords a complete and instructive exposition of Canyon Geology. Most of the feartures are so clear that anyone can recognize them. Breifly the trail passes throught the followinf rock strata from rim to river, Kaibab Limestone 675 feet, Cocnino Sandstone 310 feet, Red Supai Formations 1120 feet, Redwall Limestone 550feet, Granote 800 feet.Original Image
The Grand Canyon was known to the Pueblo Indians centuries before the white men reached America. It was probably discovered by Cardenas, a Spaniard, in 1540, but for 329 years the inaccessability of the region prevented its exploration. It was not until 1869, therefore, that the first real exploration of the canyon was made. In that year Major J. W. Powell, made the passage of the canyon by boat.Original Image
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Northwest from Pima Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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The elevation at Pima Point is 6350 feet, that of Point Sublime slightly northwest across on the wall of the Canyon is 7764 feet, while Tiyo Point also on the north but slightly to the east of Pima Point is 7765 feet in altitude. The plateau to the north of the Canyon has an average elevation about 1000 feet greater than the palteau to the south.Original Image
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A view of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, from Hermit Rim Road.Original Image
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To build a panoramic drive along the most interesting of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, required about five years' time and the expenditure of many thousands of dollars. Hermit Rim Road, as it is known, is today a drive thirty feet wide, built with crushed stone, rolled to a hard smooth surface and sprinkled with crude oil. It leads from El Tovar Hotel to the head of Hermit Trail and its thoroughness of construction has caused it to be termed, "a boulevard in the wilderness."Original Image
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Looking west from El Tovar, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Looking west from El Tovar showing Battleship Rock one and a half miles away.Original Image
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Hermit's Rest at the end of Hermit Rim Drive, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Hermit's Rest at the end of Hermit Rim Drive, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Fire place at Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Fire place at Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Camping party in Tusayan Forest on Hermit Rim Road, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Camping trips are completely equiped and placed in charged of experienceed guides by the Transportation Department at the Grand Canyon.Original Image
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Bath Falls Hermit Creek, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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The details of structure of the Canyon can be seen only at close view, but grand effects of structure can be witnessed in great panoramic scenes.Original Image
A short distance from El Tovar Hotel and a stone's throw from the sheer Canyon is the Hopi House, an irregular stone structure rising three stories high. It is a minurature Indian pueblo. A part of the Hopi House is occupied by Indians, the remainder is devoted to exhibits of reare and interesting collections of Indian material.Original Image
The town of lamy, between Las Vegas and Albuquerque, was named for the good Archbishop who founded nearby a convent, the walls of which are still standing, and who also once taught the Indians in a little adobe school house. At the time of the founding og this convent he was a missionary priest, but afterwards became Archbishop Lamy of Santa Fe.Original Image
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A storm in the Canyon from Powell Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Awe-inspiring and spectacular are the cloud effects which are seen in the Grand Canyon after the breaking of a storm. This view is from Powell Point, named in memory of John Wesly Powell, the first successful explorer of the Colorado River.Original Image
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The fireplace at Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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"When you enter the doorway (of Hermit's Rest) a surprise awaits you, no matter where you have traveled or what you have seen, for you enter a room, forty-five feet wide and eighteen feet high which is one vast cave, hollwed out of the wall, shaped like a dome cut in half, the further base of which is a fireplace, the like of which must have warmed the toes of the giant Vikings when they reached Valhalla."Original Image
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The Battleship, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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The Battleship, a conspicuous and turreted mass of red, lies at the base of Maricopa Point. It is an example of the Canyon as a master teacher of how this earth is made. It has been said that the Grand Canyon is the most instructive exposition of Geology in the world.Original Image
From Mohave Point, four miles west of El Tovar Hotel, there is an excellent view of the turbulant Colorado River as it rushes through the Granite Gorge.Original Image
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Northwest from Powell Memorial Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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For many years before Coronado's men discovered the Grand Canyon in 1540, the Indians were enjoying the peaceful serenity and beauty of awe-inspiring spectacle.Original Image
The Grand Canyon is the world's most conspicuous example of erosion. From El Tovar Hotel the visitor beholds a mighty chasm thirteen miles wide and over a mile deep.Original Image
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The Indian Ruins at Moran Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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This Point, on which stand the ruins of a prehistoric Indian fort, was one of the favorite outlooks of Thomas Moran, the greatest of the early Grand Canyon painters.Original Image
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El Tovar Hotel on the Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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El Tovar Hotel is situated on an unparalleled site, 7,000 feet above sea level, on the very rim of the Grand Canyon. It was named for the Spanish conquistador, Don Pedro de Tovarm whose memory is linked with the discovery of the Grand Canyon by Coronado's soldiers in 1540.Original Image
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Sunset from Hopi Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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The Grand Canyon is the world's most conspicuous example of erosion. From this point one beholds a mighty chasm eleven miles wide and over a mile deep.Original Image
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The Hopi House, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Near El Tovar Hotel is the Hopi House, an exact reproduction of a pueblo dwelling, with its interesting glimpses of Indian life.Original Image
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Hermit's Rest, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Hermit's Rest, at the western terminus of the Grand Canyon Rim Drive, is considered one of America's best examples of hidden architecture. "A striking cave home in the cliffs, but of majestic proportions. The rough and unhewn rocks have been cunningly put into place so that from the exterior one can scarce tell where cliff ends and building begins."Original Image
This painting was made at the foot of Bright Angel Trail 6,866 feet below El Tovar on the rim. The commanding peak of the view is Zoroaster;s Temple, 7,136 feet ini elevation, but whose tip is not even then level with the Canyon Rim.Original Image
Hopi pottery is most interesting and unique, but the Hopi themsleves have not made any pottery for centuries. The people of the First Mesa, in the village of Hano of Tewa, migrated over 200 years ago from the upper Rio Grande Valley, and were permitted by the Hopi Indians to settle in this spot. Therefore, in reality Hopi potttery makers are a branch of the upper Rio Grande Pueblos; although since much intermarried with the Hopi, and being so far removed from civilization they have maintained their aboriginal art of decoration without the influence of the white man.Original Image
Embedded in the inner walls of The Watchtower ar Desert View are a number of Indian pictographs, transferred from the rock-surfaces of caves and cliffs where they were carved by aboriginal artists in prehistoric times. The walls also contain groups of colorful symbolic paintings by the famous Hopi artist, Kabotie.Original Image
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On Cathedral Stairs, Hermit Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Hermit Trail is built on the most approved engineering lines. It descends by easy grades and long zig zags to the Plateau abd continues to the river.Original Image
The telescope in this tower is not the usual type of single-barrel machine. It is constructed exactly like an opera glass, abd tge layman experiences no difficulty in seeing through it, as it needs no more adjustment than any ordinary opera glass and the filed of vision is ten to twenty times greater than through the ordinary single-barrel machine. The north rim of the Canyon thirteen miles away, with its forest of pines, appears only a half mile away through the telescope. This machine has been installed for the benfit of visitors to the Canyon, and no charge is made to anyone.Original Image
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Grand Canyon from near Pima Point after storm, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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The finest effects at the Grand Canyon are altogether uncommunicable by brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal presence, and no painter or writer can do more than suggest what they are. You cannot paint a silecem nor an emotion, nor a sob. If you are skillful you can suggest them to the imagination but that is all. Here even silence seems to have a dimension of color.Original Image
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Jacob's Ladder on Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Hermit Trail is built on the most approved engineering lines. It descends by easy grades and long zig zags to the Plateau abd continues to the river.Original Image
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The Canyon seen through pines on the rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona.Original Image
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Standing upon the brink of the plateau at the point of the Canyon's greatest width and depth, the beholder is confronted by a scene whose majesty and beauty are well nigh unbearable. It is a new world, compelling the tribute if sensations whose intensity exceeds the familiar significance of words.Original Image
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Grand Canyon, Arizona from Bright Angel Trail.Original Image
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As seen from THE SUMMIT OF THE TRAIL a towering gateway opens way into a deep and dizzy gulf that recedes far into Kaibab plateau. This is the Bright Angel Amphitheatre a noble canyon valley, two or three miles wide, fifteen miles in length, and deep as the main canyon itself.Original Image
El Tovar is located on the brink of the Grand Canyon in the heart of the Coconino Forest, and 7,000 feet above the sea. The hotel is built of pine logs and stone in rustice style, and is from three to four stories high. The air is cool and invigorating, and the drives along the rim give one the opportunity of seeing many beautiful views of the canyon.Original Image
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Bright Angel Lodge on the Canyon's rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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The rambling, one-story structures of Bright Angel Lodge abd Cabins from a picturesqu group on the Canyon's rim, a little village of log, stone and adobe that seems to have magically "grown up" from its natural suroundings. The main Lodge provides attractive lounge, dining and entertainment facilities.Original Image
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The Hopi House, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Near El Tovar Hotel is the Hopi House, an exact reproduction of a pueblo dwelling, with its interesting glimpses of indian life.Original Image
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The Watchtower, Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Built on the very brink of the canyon wall, The Watchtower rises from a twenty-foot foundation of huge Canyon boulders. Prehistoric prototypes were carefully studied, and this Watchtower, though not a replica of any one ruin, was copied closely from the best examples of prehistoric Indian towers. At its base is a huge Kiva built of the same gray weathered rock. The Tower and kiva have many large windows, affording limitless views of this vast, colorful region.Original Image
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Maricopa Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Gunnar Widforss has chosen the Grat Wallm with two peaks, Brahma Temple and Zoroaster, in the distance, as his subject for this impressive painting from Maricopa Point.Original Image
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View from the Indian watchtower, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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From the roof of the Indian Watchtower the sweep pf the vision covers hundreds of swuare miles, an infinity of domes and towers, crowning strange temoles and palaces, whose names read like a roll call of the Godsm Rama, Vishnu, Wotan, Angels Gate, Zoroaster, Osiris, Iris, Horusm Shive, Havasupai and The Great Thumb!Original Image
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"Vista through Kiva window" Desert View, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Each great window of The Kiva frams its own individual picture, rivaling in beauty this one chosen by Gunnar Widforss for his painting. Through this window is seen the Great Colorado as its course turns northward into Marble Canyon, on to Vermillion Cliffs, with even a glimpse of the Painted Desert in the distance.Original Image
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Northwest from Pima Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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The elevation at Pima Point is 6350 feet, that of Point Sublime slightly northwest across on the wall of the Canyon is 7764 feet, while Tiyo Point also on the north but slightly to the east of Pima Point is 7765 feet in altitude. The plateau to the north of the Canyon has an average elevation about 1000 feet greater than the palteau to the south.Original Image
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Bright Angel Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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The friendly little village of the Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins provides comfortable living accommodations right at the brink of the Canyon.Original Image
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The Lookout Studio, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
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Built on the very brink of the precipice, the Lookout Studio provides excellent occasion to study Canyon details through a mounted telescope.Original Image
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Across from Grand View Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.Original Image
