- Stone Boat, Detail
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). - Construction of the Desert View Watchtower, 1932
Construction of the Desert View Watchtower - tower and kiva with scaffolding. Date: August 15, 1932 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 838; GRCA 15887). - Fletcher's Backpack, Front
Description: Colin Fletcher's backpack, possibly used during his 1963 hike through the Grand Canyon (if so, it has been re-covered). Personalized after-market additions to the pack include a denim pocket sewn to one of the shoulder straps, a dangling metal clip tied to the upper crossbar of the frame, and some foam padding taped to another crossbar on the frame. Dimensions: Size large. Pack Details: Trailwise external, aluminum frame nylon backpack. Forest green in color, with two tan nylon side pockets, black hip belt, and gray shoulder straps. The pack consists of one large central compartment, large front pocket, and four side pockets, all with zippers. There is another zipper pocket on the top lid, which is closed using white plastic buckles. The ventilation panel is made of gray mesh lashed to the frame with nylon cord. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 112793). - NPS Ranger Boots, Soles
Description: NPS Ranger boots; belonged to Ranger "Spike" Oakes, a CCC enrollee that later joined the National Park Service. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13369 and 13370). - Emery Kolb's Camera, Front
Description: Emery Kolb's camera. Mahogany, finished with black paint. Dimensions: 8 x 10 in or 11 x 14 in: Seneca Camera Manufacturing Company, 1907-1919; 445 x 375 x 310 mm (17.5 x 14.8 x 12.2 in), extended to 785 mm (30.9 in) for 11 x 14. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 76117). - Working on the Trans-Canyon Line, ca. 1935
Subject: Trans-Canyon Telephone line construction - two CCC enrollees attaching a wire to a pole below the Redwall near Indian Gardens. Date: ca. 1935 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 201). - The "Music Temple," ca. 1971
Subject: The dory Music Temple, running Crystal Rapid. Date: ca. 1971 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 8125). - 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). - Canyon Copper Co., ca. 1907
Subject: Mine crew of nine men in front of a Canyon Copper Co. building, Horseshoe Mesa, Grandview. Date: ca. 1907 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 8810). - Kolb Brothers, 1908
Subject: Ellsworth Kolb holding an 8x10 camera while suspended by a rope in a narrow crevasse between two cliffs. His brother, Emery Kolb, is straddling the crevasse with a portion of an oak tree on which the rope is attached. This photo was used for promotional purposes and was on the cover of the photograph albums sold in the Kolb Studio shop. An inscription in the lower right-hand corner reads: Copyright 1908 by Kolb Bros. Grand Canyon, Ariz. Date: 1908 Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (No. 17184). - NPS Ranger Boots, Top
Description: NPS Ranger boots; belonged to Ranger "Spike" Oakes, a CCC enrollee that later joined the National Park Service. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 13369 and 13370). - IMG 3357
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). - Stone Boat, Construction Plan
Description: Line drawing of the Stone boat, a Galloway-type Cataract boat built by the Pouliot Boat Co., ca. 1908. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park. - Pottery Tools, Alternate View
Description: Brushes, likely yucca, and a tool probably used to scrape pottery made using the coil-and-scrape method. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park. - Mining Foodstuffs
Description: Iris Brand cinnamon box, Bishop's peanut butter can, Hills Bros coffee tin, and Log Cabin syrup tin. All but the cinnamon box came from Bass Asbestos Mine. Dimensions: Peanut butter can contents: 1 lb 4 oz net weight; Coffee can contents: 2 1/2 lb net weight; Syrup can spout cap: 2.7 cm diameter. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 10904 - syrup; 19560 - coffee; 19562 - peanut butter; 16027 - cinnamon).