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Mildred E. Baker Travel Scrapbook Collection
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Peace of Rainbow and Canyon

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Peace of Rainbow and Canyon

Description: Volume with typescript narrative and approximately 200 snapshots of a trip to the Grand Canyon and Rainbow Bridge Canyon by Baker, Huck, and Crisp. A list of identified herbaceous plants, trees, ferns, shrubs, grasses, butterflies, birds, and mammals is appended. Also includes a one-page list of Navajo terms, a map of Indian reservations in Arizona, and some clippings. Includes images of the Grand Canyon, Havasu Canyon, pictographs in Havasu, Mooney Falls, Navajos at Cameron, Jack and Katherine Wilson, Rainbow Bridge, the Colorado River, Surprise Valley, a Navajo weave, Piute Canyon, Betatakin cliff dwellings, Tsegi Canyon, Inscription House ruins, and Inscription Camp. Leather binding stamped "Grabau."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: July 2nd to 25th, 1938.
Call number: photCL 237
Creator: Baker, Mildred E (1899-1987)(Opens in new tab)

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Provenance

Gift of Mildred Baker McVey, March 1974.

Gift of Mildred Baker McVey, October 1990.

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Grabau, John F., (1878-1948.)

Grabau, John F., (1878-1948,)

Huck, Florence A. (1881-1956.)

Alexander, William P.

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