Photo Gallery

This a selective photo gallery which consists of 22 color and black-and-white images from the Joseph Muench Collection. This gallery illustrates the areas of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Sonoran Desert, the Grand Canyon, Utah National parks and monuments, and Navajo portraits as well.

Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.

Palm Trees at Sunset in Papago Park, Phoenix, AZ. A tinted sky sets off the dignity of the trees reflected in the quiet of a pond. [Josef Muench]

Phoenix, AZ. Downtown-On Monroe St. 1st Presbyterian Church and 1st Baptist Church. [constructed caption]

Phoenix, AZ. South on Central Ave. [constructed caption]

Early Morning Light on Court House Rock, Maricopa County, Arizona. A striking volcanic plug, 1000 feet above the Harquahala Plain in the Sonoran Desert. [Josef Muench]

Morning Mists rises at the base of the Vulture Mountains, an unusual occurance in the Sonoran Desert. Cholla cactus in the fore catches the first sunlight. [Josef Muench]

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Palo Verde in bloom+2 Saguaros. [Josef Muench]

Autumn on the North Rim. View southeast from Point Imperial (8801 feet, highest in the rims) the Rocky Mountain maple and evergreens contrast with colorful cliffs and buttes within the mighty abyss. [Josef Muench]

Stormy Mood over the Grand Canyon. As the curtain of a threatening sky moves across, a break in the clouds lets the sun radiate into the depth to pick out platforms in the inner gorge. [Josef Muench]

Kaibab Forest and Plateau. [Josef Muench]

Grand Canyon Nat'l Park, Arizona. Looking east from Moran Point on the South Rim, a splendid panorama of cliff and canyon, showing the Colorado River in its winding course, a vertical mile below. [Josef Muench]

Winter at Grand Canyon Nat'l Park, Ariz. From Mohave Point on the South Rim, a snowy pinyon tree frames the big chasm of the Colorado River, creating an even more memorable display in winter. [Josef Muench]

Arizona Lakes. Spring at Canyon Lake. Creosote+mesquite fore. Cloudy. Afternoon. [Josef Muench]

Muench Butte in the Dead World, Southeastern Utah. A dramatic mesa, draped in Mancos shale below its Mesa Verde capping, named by local people for the photographer Josef Muench, who first portrayed it. [Josef Muench]

Kachina Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument, southeastern Utah. This massive bridge, spannning White Canyon is considered at a youthful stage in the life of a natural bridge. Flood waters are still enlarging the opening beneath the span. Its height is 210 feet and has a span of 206 ft. [Josef Muench]

Early Winter at Zion National Park, Utah. The Watchman, a sentinel at the South Entrance to the Park wrapped in an early November snow blanket at the time when cottonwoods trees along the Virgin River still show their autumn leaves. [Josef Muench]

The Great White Throne-Zion National Park, Utah. The 2394 foot of sheer rise of this formation plus others in the park is seen from East Rim Trail with Prickly Pear cactus (Opuntia rhodantha) in full bloom. [Josef Muench]

Waterfalls in Pleasant Creek, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. This perennial little stream, with its source high up on the Aquarius Plateau, has carved this beautiful canyon out of solid rock. [Josef Muench]

Navajo Indian in Monument Valley. North Window-tree on right. Joyce Betty. [Josef Muench]

Moccasin Arch in Monument Valley, Arizona. As colorful as the red sandstone, a Navajo Indian sits astride his pony in the desert lands of his tribe where erosion has shaped the rock into this striking window. [Josef Muench]

This prould old matriarch could tell stirring tales of her life in the desert. She is a member of the most colorful and largest tribe in the United States. [Josef Muench]

Navajo Indian Rug. The second largest single-piece floor-covering known, was made by Indian women. Minny-Many Horses [Minnie Manyhorses] was the weaver with helpers preparing the wool. It measures 19x31 feet and took 23 months with 23 helpers. Indian Reservation, Arizona. [Josef Muench]

Navajo Indians in Monument Valley. Mon. Valley-1 Navaho [Navajo] Boy on Pinto Horse & Colt. [Josef Muench]