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- 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). - Georgie White's Rig, 1964
Subject: Georgie White's triple-rig raft in the Inner Gorge (Mile 148.5), Colorado River. Date: April, 1964 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 4810A). - Moltzen and Newby, 1956
Description: Frank Moltzen and Neal Newby in 1956. Moltzen and Newby took a harrowing journey through the Grand Canyon on packrafts barely large enough to contain a single person and their gear. Learn more... Date: 1956 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park - "Edith"
Description: Storage compartment on the Edith, one of the boats used by the Kolb brothers to run the Grand Canyon in 1911-1912. The Edith was rowed by Emery Kolb, and named for his daughter. Dimensions: 16'4" L; cockpit: 3'9.5" L; oarlocks to bottom: 18" D; midship, from combing to bottom: 25"; gunwale to gunwale: 3'10" W. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13725). - Stone Boat
Description: Galloway-style Cataract boat used on the Stone expedition. Built of white oak and Michigan pine, with two compartments each in the fore and aft. Bottom covered in with a thin iron sheet. Dimensions: 16.5' L, 4' W at the gunwales, 18" deep, with a 10" rake fore and aft from the center. Dry, the boat weighed 243 lbs. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13673). - Kolb Studio after the 1911 River Trip
Subject: Kolb Studio after the 1911 river trip. Date:ca. 1912 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 7731). - Cork Life Vest, Front
View 3D Model Description: Cork life vest used on the Stone expedition. Made of 48 rectangular cork blocks tied to a brown canvas vest by cloth ties. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park. - Kolb Brothers, 1912
Subject: The Kolb brother's Colorado River expedition, 1911-1912: Lauzon and Kolb portaging a boat at Lava Cliff Rapid, Colorado River Mile 246. Date: January 12, 1912 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17177). - 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). - Stone Expedition, 1909
Stone expedition: Boats near Boulder Canyon (?), a location now under Lake Mead. Date: November, 1909 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 13994). - "Doc" Marston, 1963
Subject: Otis "Dock" Marston running the Mile 217 rapid in a Sportyak II. Date: August 27, 1963 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 5008). - Stone Boat, Tag
Description: Galloway-style Cataract boat used on the Stone expedition. Built of white oak and Michigan pine, with two compartments each in the fore and aft. Bottom covered in with a thin iron sheet. Dimensions: 16.5' L, 4' W at the gunwales, 18" deep, with a 10" rake fore and aft from the center. Dry, the boat weighed 243 lbs. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13673). - USGS Expedition, 1923
Subject: The boat Glen running a rapid on the Colorado River. In 1921, this boat was used on the Green River for USGS surveying explorations. It was then used on the 1923 USGS expedition to survey the Grand Canyon for dam sites. The expedition was headed by Colonel Birdseye and Eugene Larue, and included geologist Raymond Moore and surveyors and boatmen Lewis Freeman, Leigh Lint, H.E. Blake, Emery Kolb, and Frank Dodge. Date: 1923 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 5048). - Young Georgie White, ca. 1957
Subject: Young Georgie White in her river running outfit: shorts and a white helmet. Date: ca. 1957 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 10171).