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- 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," Storage Compartment
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: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13725). - "Edith," Bow
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: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13725). - "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). - "Edith," Alternate View
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). - "Edith," Cockpit
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: Cockpit: 3'9.5" L. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13725). - "Edith," Cockpit, Alternate View
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: Cockpit: 3'9.5" L. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13725). - Norm Nevills' River Expedition, 1938
Subject: Norm Nevills' Colorado River expedition: Three boats pulling into a beach by Phantom Ranch. Date: July 22, 1938 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 588). - Norm Nevills, 1947
Subject: Arriving at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek (Black Bridge behind) on one of Norm Nevills' commercial river trips through the Grand Canyon. The boat Wen is on its fifth trip through the Canyon. Date: July, 1947 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 1584). - Hudson's River Party, ca. 1949
Subject: Ed Hudson's river party leaving Lees Ferry in the Esmeralda II. Left to right on boat: Bestor Robinson, Ed Hudson Jr., Wilson Ayler, Ed Hudson Sr., and Otis Marston. The party reached Pearce Ferry at the head of Lake Mead on June 17, after successfully running all rapids in the Grand Canyon. Date: ca. 1949 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 1873). - 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). - "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). - Kayaker, 1941
Subject: Alexander "Zee" Grant, Jr., in his kayak, the Escalante, running Granite Falls on the Colorado River. Nevill's cataract boat is in the background. Date: July, 1941 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 5010). - 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). - 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).