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Views of Rainbow Bridge, San Juan County, Utah. 1921.

Dates

Date Taken
1921-10-06

Summary

Album caption: Eight slightly different views of Rainbow Bridge, looking downstream. Noon. Rainbow Bridge National Monument. San Juan County, Utah. October 6, 1921. Index card: Rainbow Natural Bridge, looking downstream. The bridge spans a narrow inner canyon in which joins Colorado River 6.5 miles below mouth of San Juan RIver. Rainbow Bridge National Monument. San Juan County Utah. October 6, 1921. (The bridge attains a height of 309 feet above the creek, or 235 feet above the top of the inner canyon, and has a span of 278 feet.) Published as plate 6 in U.S. Geological Survey. Water-suply paper 556.1925. Note: Eight slightly different views of Rainbow Bridge. E.C. La Rue photograph numbers 233-235 (lec00233a, lec00234, lec00234a, [...]

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Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
La Rue, Eugene Clyde

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