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- Steamboat Engraving
Subject: The steamboat, The Explorer, used by Lt. Joseph Ives during his Colorado River expedition. Date: Engraving by Mollhausen for the Ives Expedition report published in 1861. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 4907). - Canyon Engraving
Subject: "Big Canon at the Mouth of Diamond River." Date: Engraving by J.J. Young for the Ives Expedition report published in 1861; original sketch by F.W. Egloffstein Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 16181). - Powell and Tau-Gu
Subject: Tau-Gu, chief of the Paiutes, overlooking the Virgin River with J.W. Powell, age 39. Date: ca. 1873 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17229). - Powell on Horseback
Subject: Portrait of John Wesley Powell (age 57) on horseback near Flagstaff, Arizona. Powell was a guest of D.M. Riordan. Date: ca. 1891 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17230). - Preparing to Embark
Subject: Second Powell expedition: Party in boats and ready to depart from Green River, Wyoming. Left to right, in the Canonita: E.O. Beaman, Andrew Hattan, and Walter Clement Powell; in the Emma Dean: Stephen Vandiver Jones, John K. Hillers, John Wesley Powell, and Fredrick S. Dellenbaugh; in the Nellie Powell: Almon Harris Thompson, John F. Steward, Frances Marion Bishop, and Frank Richardson. Date: May 22, 1871 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17234). - Second Powell Expedition
Second Powell expedition: Man attending to boats near the upper end of the Grand Canyon. Date: August, 1872 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17252). - The "Emma Dean"
Subject: The boat Emma Dean during the second Powell expedition. Inside are John Wesley Powell's armchair and life preserver. Date: August, 1872 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17254). - Walter "Clem" Powell
Read Clem's journals Subject: Formal portrait of Walter Clement Powell, nephew of John Wesley Powell and member of Powell's second expedition. Date: ca. 1870 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17264). - Powell's Watch, Front
Description: John Wesley Powell's watch: Burts Patent Serial No. 4056/Elgin, Illinois. "B.W. Raymond" Case No. 38590. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 20836). - Powell's Watch, Back
View with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Description: John Wesley Powell's watch: Burts Patent Serial No. 4056/Elgin, Illinois. "B.W. Raymond" Case No. 38590. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 20836). - Boucher's Pack Saddle
Description: Partial wooden pack saddle with metal reinforcements and leather straps. Found on the Boucher (Hermit) Trail in 1948 by Merrill Clubb, who noted: "This must undoubtedly be L[oius] B[oucher]'s very own pack saddle. It was about half way between the bottom of the Redwall and his cabin -- right by his trail. This should be the Kaabab (sic) of all trail men. B's trail is almost incredible as the work of one man." Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 20841). - Boucher's Pack Saddle, Alternate View
Description: Partial wooden pack saddle with metal reinforcements and leather straps. Found on the Boucher (Hermit) Trail in 1948 by Merrill Clubb, who noted: "This must undoubtedly be L[oius] B[oucher]'s very own pack saddle. It was about half way between the bottom of the Redwall and his cabin -- right by his trail. This should be the Kaabab (sic) of all trail men. B's trail is almost incredible as the work of one man." Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 20841). - Boucher's Pack Saddle, Alternate View
Description: Partial wooden pack saddle with metal reinforcements and leather straps. Found on the Boucher (Hermit) Trail in 1948 by Merrill Clubb, who noted: "This must undoubtedly be L[oius] B[oucher]'s very own pack saddle. It was about half way between the bottom of the Redwall and his cabin -- right by his trail. This should be the Kaabab (sic) of all trail men. B's trail is almost incredible as the work of one man." Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 20841). - Boucher's Pack Saddle, Alternate View
Description: Partial wooden pack saddle with metal reinforcements and leather straps. Found on the Boucher (Hermit) Trail in 1948 by Merrill Clubb, who noted: "This must undoubtedly be L[oius] B[oucher]'s very own pack saddle. It was about half way between the bottom of the Redwall and his cabin -- right by his trail. This should be the Kaabab (sic) of all trail men. B's trail is almost incredible as the work of one man." Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 20841). - "Nellie Powell" Fragment, Interior
View 3D Model Description: Fragment of the "Nellie Powell" found in 1938. The Nellie Powell was one of three boats used during the second Powell expedition (1871-1872). Abandoned at Lees Ferry, the boat later burned in a brush fire, leaving only this fragment intact. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 17085).