Viewing Power and Place at Grand Canyon: Grand View Point, 1880–1926

Figure 7.

"Grand View Hotel, Grand Canyon Arizona." In this 1907 detail view of a postcard from Detroit Publishing Company, the Grand View Hotel is depicted on the edge of the south rim of the canyon with a soaring view of the canyon and steep cliffs. The image is strikingly similar to a postcard from the same era of El Tovar Hotel, the Santa Fe Railroad and Fred Harvey's lodging option just a few miles west of Grand View Point (Figure 8). The two hotels were in direct competition with each other for tourism dollars. Image #69480, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, New York Public Library Digital Collections.