Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Photographs.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
E.C. LaRue photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: UUS_P0637
Abstract
The Birdseye expedition of 1923 surveyed the 251 mile streach of the Colorado River which ran between Lees Ferry to Diamond Creek. The two major goals of the expedition was to locate potential dam sites and create a series of maps and profiles of the area. Eventually the expedition published 14 maps from the expedition that were used in the creation of Hoover and Parker Dams as well as the Colorado River Aqueduct and the Central Arizona Project. LaRue was the expedition hydrologist and...
Dates:
1922
Wheeler's geographical survey stereoscopic views
Collection
Identifier: UUS_P0325
Abstract
This collection consists of fifty stereoscopic cards taken by photographers Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William W. Bell between 1871 and 1874 during the Army Corps of Engineers geographical survey led by Lieutenant George Montague Wheeler. The views in this collection consist of geological formations (including some of the first images of the Grand Canyon); members of the Zuni, Mojave, Navajo, Apache, and Ute tribes; scenic views; and ancient puebloan ruins.
Dates:
1871-1874