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Manuscripts

Moran's painting "The Chasm of the Colorado." Stretch of river from Powell's Plateau and terrain from Muav Canyon

Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1873, Dec.
Call number: mssMarston papers P008/0043
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