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Object Number 995-26-00/1.1
Display Title Diamond Creek Cañon
Descriptions
Object Description Written on album page: "Diamond Creek Canon / at its outlet into the Grand Colorado Canon, its name being due to an attempt / to sell a mine there by depositing a few diamonds in carefully chosen crevies in the / rocks, and having their "discovery" advertised."
Department Photographic
Date 1880-1900
Artist Joshua W. Davis
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 15.5575 cm (8 × 6 1/8 in.)
Label on object See notes and histories for inscriptions
Provenance
Donor Friends of the Lincoln Library

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