Devil's Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down, 1868–70, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 39.8 x 52.4 cm. (15 11/16 x 20 5/8 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), This tortured landscape shows Devil's Canyon, which is cited in William Bentley's Hand-Book of the Pacific Coast (1884) as a 'favored resort for pleasure seekers' from nearby San Francisco. Located in Sonoma County, its chief feature was a crevasse six feet in diameter known as the 'Steam Pipe,' a Dantean inferno from which steam bellowed forth with a blast that often exceeded the scream of a locomotive whistle
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