Layers of burnt sienna and cream-colored stone cascade into infinity — this vivid linen-era view looking across from El Tovar Hotel captures the Grand Canyon at its most theatrically American, the canyon walls glowing as if lit from within by some ancient furnace. Published by the legendary Fred Harvey Company, the hospitality empire that civilized the frontier railroad stops of the Southwest, this card would have been sold in the El Tovar gift shop to travelers arriving via the Santa Fe Railway — a postcard tradition that made Fred Harvey one of the great early forces in American tourism marketing. The back text reminds us the chasm runs thirteen miles wide and over a mile deep, facts that still stagger the imagination.