Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking West

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Artist: William H. Bell (American (born England), Liverpool 1831–1910 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1872
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: 27.3 x 20.1 cm. (10 3/4 x 7 15/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1988
Accession no.: 1988.1073

Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South
William H. Bell
1872 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008025
Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North
William H. Bell
1872 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008026
Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking South
William H. Bell
1872 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008027
Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
William H. Bell
1872 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008028

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.