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Title	Dutch Wedding
Date	1897-1921
Photographer	unknown
Description	Man sitting in horse-drawn carriage under eroded sandstone rock formations, misidentified on the photo as Garden of the Gods, but actually in Monument Park. "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas." and "Works and Studios-Arlington, N. J. Westwood, N. J." printed on sides of card. "S248" printed on top right of card. "6224-Weird forms of eroded rocks, the "Dutch Wedding", Garden of the Gods, Colorado. Copyright Strohmeyer & Wyman." printed on bottom of card. Text on back of card reads "6224. Geography.--We are in the Garden of the Gods some six miles northwest of Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Rocky Mountain range. Seventy-five miles to the north is Denver. Physiography.--Geology.--Do you wonder that the wandering Indian, in the days when this western wonderland was his undisputed possession, held this spot sacred to the Great Spirit? What are to us merely fantastic rock formations, worn by weathering and erosion into grotesque representation of living beings, were to them images of divinities. At the echoing cave he thought he heard the voice of the Great Spirit. The 480 acres of this natural park are crowded with such creations as these flat-hatted figures. They are, for the most part, of white and red sandstone, rocks sedimentary in their origin, but which have been upturned by some remote volcanic activity, until the strata run in the most unexpected directions. The same disturbance doubtless upheaved the igneous rocks of the foothills and the granite mass of overshadowing Pikes Peak itself. Literature.--The Garden of the Gods is a curious whim of nature. These wind-wrought obelisks startle one with their illusive resemblances, and awe one, as well, with their revelations of the gigantic forces that were once set loose here in the earlier days of world-making. No one has so well described this part of Colorado as Helen Jackson in her Bits of Travel at Home. Refer again to this view when considering Nature Study." Title in English and five other languages.
Location	Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Subjects	Hoodoos (Geomorphology) Landforms
Folder Name	Colorado Springs - Parks - Monument Park
Image number	175-3916
Collection name	Stereographic Collection
Collection number	MSS 0175
Original format	stereographs
Physical description	3 1/2 x 7 stereo print
Notes	Photo misidentified in text as Garden of the Gods.
Resource type	Image
Publisher	Pikes Peak Library District
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