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The "Sweet Chariot" cruising on upper Lake Mead in the Grand Canyon at the end of the 1951 motor traverse. Cooper is pilot. Taylor facing the camera

Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1951, June 19
Call number: mssMarston papers V099/0054
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