Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Cañon

1867–68

Not on view

From mid-1868 until the driving of the golden spike on May 10, 1869, A. J. Russell photographed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and the landscape of the "Great American Desert" through which it ran. At Echo City, Utah, a Mormon settlement even before the arrival of the railroad, Russell made this view of the frontiersman's precarious hold on a terrain that had until then been shaped only by millennia of geological forces.

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Title: Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Cañon
Artist: Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830–1902)
Date: 1867–68
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 21.3 x 28.2 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986
Object Number: 1986.1196
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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