Caption:
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. Timothy O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840-1882); commissioned by George Wheeler for the War Department, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Date: 1873. Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 cm (each image); 10 x 17.7 cm (card). Albumen print, stereo, No. 25 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian". Origin: United States.