The First "Panoramic" Through the Royal Gorge, Grand Canon of the Arkansas, Colorado

 

George Lytle Beam

  1868 - 1935 (biography)

c. 1909  

gelatin silver photograph 

9 5/16 x 7 7/16" image and paper size 

unsigned, as ususal 

not stated 

stamp of the Denver Rio Grande Railroad on verso reads: "The Denver and Rio Grande Western R.R. - Photograph by George L. Beam, Denver, Colorado"; typed beneath stamp: "'The First "panoramic" through the Royal Gorge Grand Canon of the Arkansas, on the Den 

 

semi gloss photopaper 

published 

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad 

23160 

$100.00 

A Denver & Rio Grande Railroad engine comes down the Royal Gorge line, the famous A-line beams of the "Hanging Bridge" in the background. Beam had been hired by the D&RG Railroad to photograph the rail line and its surroundings as it ran through what would become the Colorado National Monument.