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Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The late-day sun shines through the arms of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

The late-day sun shines through the arms of a saguaro cactus in the So...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

Sunset silhouettes a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The late-day sun illuminates a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

The late-day sun illuminates a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The late-day sun illuminates a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

The late-day sun illuminates a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The late-day sun illuminates a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

The late-day sun illuminates a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, n...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighoring Mexico and California) is legendary for its uplifted "arms." But as this image, taken in the Sonoran Desert near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona, illustrates, the plant begins as a single, stubby, cucumber-shaped shaft on which the appendages eventually appear, but not until the cactus is 70 years old or so

The saguaro cactus, native to southern Arizona (and a bit of neighorin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The desert extends from southern Arizona deep into Mexico

Sonoran desert landscape near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona. The de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, Arizona

A saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, near Marana, north of Tucson, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama

San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama

Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama in the Sonoran Desert — in present day Tubutama, Sonora (state), México. Founded by Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino in 1687. Official NPS photo taken from http://www.n... More

Bartlett Church Arispe - Public domain book illustration

Bartlett Church Arispe - Public domain book illustration

Pencil and ink sketch on thin, blue-lined writing paper shows a church with a mountain labeled "Soharro" behind it. Bartlett's Personal Narrative shows that he was in Arizpe from May 30 until June 3, 1851 and w... More

Sonoran Desert (7211733604)

Sonoran Desert (7211733604)

Credit: George Gentry/USFWS

Arizona and Sonora Missions

Arizona and Sonora Missions

Map of Jesuit colonial Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in present day southern Arizona, U.S. and Sonora, Mexico.

Oasisamérica-Hohokam

Oasisamérica-Hohokam

Location map of the Hohokam culture — one of the four major prehistoric Oasisamerica traditions of the Ancient Puebloan peoples in Southwestern North America. The culture's pre-Columbian archaeological sites ... More

S65-18741 Arizona and Mexico on Earth

S65-18741 Arizona and Mexico on Earth

Gemini 3 photograph of Arizona and Mexico. Yuma, Arizona and the Colorado river are at the Upper center, and the Great Sonora Desert is at lower left. The dark area at the bottom right is a large volcanic fiel... More

Campfires on desert and lava (1908) (14772862432)

Campfires on desert and lava (1908) (14772862432)

Identifier: campfiresondeser00horn (find matches) Title: Campfires on desert and lava Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Subjects: Publisher: New York, C. Scribner... More

Colorado River Dry Delta

Colorado River Dry Delta

Colorado River Dry Delta, terminus of the Colorado River in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California and Sonora, Mexico, ending about 5 miles north of the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California).

Mojave Sonoran deserts - Public domain map

Mojave Sonoran deserts - Public domain map

Locator map of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts.

Mojave-sonoran deserts - Public domain map

Mojave-sonoran deserts - Public domain map

Locator map of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts.

Mojave-Sonoran - Public domain geographic map

Mojave-Sonoran - Public domain geographic map

Locator map of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts.

Washingtonia filifera range map

Washingtonia filifera range map

Flora distribution range map of Washingtonia filifera — California fan palm. Native to the western Sonoran Desert — in Southern California (Colorado Desert), northern Baja California, and westernmost Arizona.

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