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Cable Car in Glen Canyon. Nearing its anchorage the little car is used by the engineer of the Lees Ferry Gaging Station on the Colorado River in northern Arizona. Daily trips are made here to measure the river's fluctuating volume, velocity, depth and content. [Caption given by Josef Muench] Sentinel Rock. A 300 ft. monolith of red sandstone at the mouth of Wahweap Canyon, a tributary to the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. Art Greene's excursion boat, taking the spectacular trip from Lee's Ferry to Rainbow Bridge stops to let passengers enjoy the scene. Sentinel Rock is now 200 ft. under the waters of Lake Powell. [Caption given by Josef Muench] Sentinel Rock in Glen Canyon. A giant monolith of red sandstone guards the entrance of Wahweap Canyon into the Colorado River, Arizona. Passengers on an upstream trip to Rainbow Bridge pause to enjoy the dramatic spot set in the brilliant cliffs. It is now submerged under the waters of Lake Powell. Around the campfire. Off away from the everyday world, spending the night on a sand bar along the Colorado River, the cliffs of Glen Canyon make the bedroom walls with a star-studded ceiling above on up-river runs to Rainbow Natural Bridge thru a scenic land, Utah.
Evening Light in Glen Canyon (between the Dam and Lee's Ferry), Arizona. When day is over, light retreats with dignity, making pools of purple shadows on the Colorado River, then, Art Greene, old-time riverman enjoys the dramatic, but silent beauty. The Colorado River in Glen Canyon, Arizona. Tamed by the Glen Canyon Dam, the big river runs now placid and clear through its deep gorge between the Dam and historic Lee's Ferry. [Caption by Josef Muench] The Mighty Colorado River, Northern Arizona. In a land of almost solid sandstone, the force and persistence of the stream has carved a winding course. View is over Glen Canyon, now under waters of Lake Powell Annie Irene Greene Johnson looks at the Historic Landmark marker where near this spot on November 7th, 1776 two Spanish Fathers and a small party made the first recorded crossing by white men of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. This perilous crossing made thru Forbidding Canyon, narrow and steep opening into the tremendous chasm, was a milestone in the exploration of the West. A plaque noting it was placed in 1938.
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Local call number
NAU.PH.2003.11.1.1
Media type
Image
Creator
Muench, Josef
Title
Images of natural features and people taken prior to the construction of Glen Canyon Dam, ca. 1950-1956.
Original creation dates
1949-1956
Repository
Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
Use
Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
Collection name
Muench, Josef
Content Summary
Images taken of people boating and camping in the Glen Canyon area. Included are many images of natural landscape and a few monuments.Several of the images were used for articles in the August 1949 and theJuly 1953 issues of Arizona Highways.
Biography/History
Josef Muench was born in Bavaria February 8, 1904. At the age of 11 he received his first camera and began a lifelong interest in capturing nature on film. He arrived in the United States with his brother in 1926 and eventually settled in Santa Barbara, California. In the 1930s, Muench began his long association with Arizona Highways Magazine. Josef Muench died in 1998.
Subjects
Aerial tramways
Formations (Geology)
Boats and boating
Aerial photography
Plaques, plaquettes
Camping
Places
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
People
Greene, Art
Johnson, Earl
Muench, Josef
Johnson, Annie Irene Greene
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