Camp Beauty, Canñon de Chelle; walls 1.200 feet high, width of Cañon at this point about one fourth of a mile. This view shows the perpendicular effect wrought by the action of floods. The Artist of the Expedition, Mr. Wyant, of New York, made a study of this scene with the intention to paint it as a characteristic Canon view, No. 25 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
1873
Timothy O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882)
commissioned by George Wheeler for the War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
United States
Albumen print, stereo