Escalante, Utah p.1

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Title Escalante, Utah p.1
Collection Classified Photograph Collection
File Name 39222001434153
Photo Number 15313
Classification 979.2
Creator Lange, Dorothea
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph February 1940
Date 1940-02
Subject Cities and towns; Business districts
Spatial Coverage Escalante; Garfield Counnty; Utah
Description Main Street and town center with men standing outside the pool hall. Escalante was named after the famous Spanish explorer although Escalante never went to the valley. The valley was discovered by whites in 1866 during the Black Hawk War as cavalry traveled into the valley in pursuit of Indians. The first log cabin was built in 1876 by Philo Allen.
Comment Utah Writers' Project
Rights Management Digital Image © 2010 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photograph Collection, 979.2 Utah Cities
Source Format Print Photograph
Source Size 8 in x 10 in
Source Donors Farm Security Administration
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Scanned By Karl Nicholson and Earl Hindley, USHS
ARK ark:/87278/s6x92n7r
Setname dha_cp
ID 452719
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x92n7r