Plate is 28 x 34 in., framed slightly larger. The view is titled elsewhere View of Grand Canyon from Lava, April 1872. Hillers himself can be seen sitting ledge in the at right. John K. Hillers (1843-1925) produced glass transparencies such as this for exhibition at both the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Fowler notes in The Western Photographs of John K. Hillers: Myself in the Water, that both Hillers and William Henry Jackson contributed plates in Philadelphia, and the Centennial Exposition's catalog stated, "the west end of the Government building has been constructed for the insertion of transparencies of photographs on glass and these are of much interest, as being some of the largest views of the kind to be found." (p. 79). Fowler further notes that Hillers' 1892 expedition west with Powell was partly for the purpose of capturing images to be displayed in the Geological Survey display in Chicago the following year (p. 134). This particular image is cataloged in the book as No. 2, on page 24. PLEASE NOTE: BECAUSE OF THE SIZE, WEIGHT AND FRAGILITY OF THIS RARE GLASS TRANSPARENCY, SPECIAL SHIPPING WILL BE REQUIRED! PLEASE INQUIRE WITH QUESTIONS!
Plate is 28 x 34 in., framed slightly larger. The view is titled elsewhere View of Grand Canyon from Lava, April 1872. Hillers himself can be seen sitting ledge in the at right. John K. Hillers (1843-1925) produced glass transparencies such as this for exhibition at both the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Fowler notes in The Western Photographs of John K. Hillers: Myself in the Water, that both Hillers and William Henry Jackson contributed plates in Philadelphia, and the Centennial Exposition's catalog stated, "the west end of the Government building has been constructed for the insertion of transparencies of photographs on glass and these are of much interest, as being some of the largest views of the kind to be found." (p. 79). Fowler further notes that Hillers' 1892 expedition west with Powell was partly for the purpose of capturing images to be displayed in the Geological Survey display in Chicago the following year (p. 134). This particular image is cataloged in the book as No. 2, on page 24. PLEASE NOTE: BECAUSE OF THE SIZE, WEIGHT AND FRAGILITY OF THIS RARE GLASS TRANSPARENCY, SPECIAL SHIPPING WILL BE REQUIRED! PLEASE INQUIRE WITH QUESTIONS!
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