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File:Foot of Toroweap Looking East by William Holmes.jpg

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English: This panoramic view of the en:Grand Canyon by en:William H. Holmes was published in en:Clarence E. Dutton's 1882 atlas to accompany the monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. This map was made as part of a government-sponsored survey of the canyon, which was the first attempt at stratigraphic mapping in the en:United States. Holmes was the leading scientific illustrator of topographic and geologic phenomena for the en:Great Western Surveys following the en:American Civil War. He later became the first director of the en:National Gallery of Art in en:Washington, D.C.
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(Original text: 1882)
Source Library of Congress - From [1])
Author en:William H. Holmes

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  • 2005-05-11 01:53 Mav 559×328× (41761 bytes) This panoramic view of the [[Grand Canyon]] by [[William H. Holmes]] was published in [[Clarence E. Dutton]]'s 1882 atlas to accompany the monograph on the ''Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District''. This map was made as part of a government-sponso

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