Nevills Expeditions Grand Canyon river trip, circa 1947-1948

Item — cassette: 6.2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Much of this footage also appears in 1.2 and 1.3:

Map of river

Street scene, San Francisco

Flaming Gorge

Green River view of canyon from cliffs above

Ashley Falls

Gates of Lodore

Echo Park

Aerial of confluence of Colorado and Green Rivers

Cataract Canyon

Nevills boat in rapid

Glen Canyon: Outlaw Cave, mouth of San Juan River

Aerial views of Vermillion Cliffs, Marble Canyon

Buffalo

Little Colorado River

Aerial view of Grand Canyon

Map of Grand Canyon

View from rim

Emery Kolb

View from rim

Unkar Delta

Boat on river

Tanner Flats area, below Little Colorado River

Boats

Inner Gorge

Rapids: scouting Sockdologer Rapid

View of big rapids

Lining rapids: Otis Marston, Norman Nevills, Garth Marston, Margaret Marston

Re-loading boats

Lining sequence speeded up

Streets scenes in San Francisco with trolleys, turntables

Office scene, woman typing

Randall Henderson using typewriter on river, putting note in cairn

Fossils, fossil hunting

Petroglyphs

Monument Valley

Granaries at Nankoweap, Grand Canyon

Marston twins with pieces of pottery

Pottery

Sign about John Wesley Powell

F.S. Dellenbaugh inscription, Music Temple, Glen Canyon

Separation Rapid plaque

Letter from Nathaniel Galloway, inscription by Galloway

Various inscriptions: Kolb brothers, Clyde Eddy, Pathe-Bray, Hydes

Skeleton in Stanton Cave

Hiking on slickrock in Glen Canyon

Mining camps, Glen Canyon: Olympia Bar, Zahn's camp

Nevills finding chest with old clothes in Glen Canyon, modeling old clothes

Oil camp

Lizard

Scorpion

Garth Marston holding rattlesnake

Deer swimming in river

Bighorn sheep

Marston at oars of boat

Aerial tram car at Bass Camp, Grand Canyon

Bridge at Moab, Utah

Aerial of Navajo Bridge

Dates

circa 1947-1948

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Materials in English.

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