Repeat photography. Wasatch Station, Summit County, Utah. 1869 and 1940.
Dates
Date Taken
1869
Date Taken
1940-06-11
Summary
Upper photo caption - album and index card: Wasatch, 966 miles west from Omaha, altitude 6,870 feet, on the divide between Echo Canyon and Bear River. From this point the descent is very rapid into the famous canyon. Summit County, Utah. 1869. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1869 Series, page 6, Nos. 21, 22: Wasatch, 966 miles west from Omaha, altitude 6,870 feet, on the divide between Echo Canyon and Bear River. From this point the descent is very rapid into the famous canyon. Two miles farther on we come to and pass slowly over an immense trestle-work, as shown in photograph number 23. (jwh00023) Lower [...]
Summary
Upper photo caption - album and index card: Wasatch, 966 miles west from Omaha, altitude 6,870 feet, on the divide between Echo Canyon and Bear River. From this point the descent is very rapid into the famous canyon. Summit County, Utah. 1869.
Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1869 Series, page 6, Nos. 21, 22: Wasatch, 966 miles west from Omaha, altitude 6,870 feet, on the divide between Echo Canyon and Bear River. From this point the descent is very rapid into the famous canyon. Two miles farther on we come to and pass slowly over an immense trestle-work, as shown in photograph number 23. (jwh00023)
Lower photo caption (album): Wasatch Station in Echo Canyon, Utah. 1940. (Then and now album, p. 1 lower photo).
Lower photo index card: Site of Wasatch, Utha in 1869. June 11, 1940.
Note: Seventy (70) years between William Henry Jackson photograph number 22 (upper), jwh00022; and Ralf R. Woolley photograph number (lower). Links to these individual photographs are listed below under Web Links.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Collection, Woolley, R.R. Collection and Then and Now subject album collection.
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