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On the French Broad, North Carolina
Creator
John K. HillersAmerican Photographer · 1843–1925
All works by this person →John K. Hillers began making photographs while exploring the terrain around the Colorado River in 1871. Part of a survey team led by John Wesley Powell, a geologist and ethnologist, Hillers was originally hired as a boatman. He became increasingly interested in the work of the team's photographer, began acting as his assistant, and by 1872 had become the expedition photographer. From the 1870s unt
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- 1894
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ae35c95c-2b73-43d6-b117-d1eaa80beba0
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Railroad tracks running vertically at left; island in river at right
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