Labyrinthine ways through the Lava ash formations, Red Mountain Crater, Arizona, No. 6 from the series "Notes of Travel"
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 7.7 × 8.1 cm (3 1/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Card: 8.9 × 17.8 cm (3 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
stereograph (albumen)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
59751
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Verso inscription: You are part way up one of the ancient volcanoes in northwestern Arizona. The Grand Cayon is about forty miles behind you. Today this mountain is simply a picturesque height standing up from a great plain covered with sage-brush and straggling pines and cedars; in some earlier geologie age it was an active volcano or vent-hole through which poured out smoke and steam and fiery liquid rock heaved up from the tumultuous depths below. These weird masses of grayish red, crumbly m...