Humanities + Digital Tools: Enchanting the Desert

This video in the Stanford Humanities + Digital Tools series presents “Enchanting the Desert,” a digital humanities project that examines and explores Henry Peabody’s photographic slideshow of the Grand Canyon from ca. 1905. For more information, visit: stanford.io/1Gp...

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Was Peabody the first (only) person of the era to undertake such photographic surveys? I would be interested in finding out more about those who were tasked with the original cartographic surveys of The Grand Canyon and how such an undertaking was achieved.