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Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona
William H. Bell
Albumen print · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago

"The Bath," a dripping spring in Kanab Cañon. Temperature, 69° Fahr, No. 9 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
William H. Bell
Albumen print, stereo · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago

The "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1.500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling, No. 15 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
William H. Bell
Albumen print, stereo · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago

Marble Cañon, one of the gorges of the Colorado here, 1.200 feet deep. The steep cliff is gray limestone and the slope below a brilliant red sandstone, No. 13 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
William H. Bell
Albumen print, stereo · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago

The northern wall of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, near the foot of To-ro-weap valley. The rounded rocks of the foreground are sand-stone, No. 14 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
William H. Bell
Albumen print, stereo · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago

The Cañon of Kanab Creek, near its junction with the Grand Cañon of the Colorado. In the foreground is a dripping spring affording a shower bath. Temperature, 69° Fahr, No. 8 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
William H. Bell
Albumen print, stereo · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago

View in the Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, No. 12 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
William H. Bell
Albumen print, stereo · 1872
Art Institute of Chicago
Canon of Kanab Wash, Looking South, Colorado River
William H. Bell
Albumen print from glass plate negative · 1872
Cleveland Museum of Art
Looking South into the Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Sheavwitz
William H. Bell
albumen print from wet collodion negative · 1872
Cleveland Museum of Art

Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, looking West
William H. Bell
Albumen silver print from glass negative · 1872
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
William H. Bell
albumen print from tannin dry plate negative · 1872
Cleveland Museum of Art