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Photographs of Paiute Indians and the Colorado River survey

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Description: Includes photographs and stereocards from John Wesley Powell's Colorado Rivery Survey. Various photographers.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1869-1874.
Call number: photCL 263
Provenance: Transferred from Manuscripts Department, Otis R. Marston papers, December 1983.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Hillers, John K., (1843-1925,)

Stereographs of the Powell Survey of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River

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This box contains seventy three stereographs taken during the United States Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River, of the West, led by John Wesley Powell and Almon Harris Thompson.

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Photographic copy prints of Brown-Stanton Colorado River Survey

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A group of 158 copy prints of photographs made during the Brown-Stanton Colorado River Survey of 1889 by photographer Franklin A. Nims. The photographs depict the river, canyons and terrain, and the survey team at work.

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U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region views

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A scrapbook album containing a collection of 339 stereograph halves, with accompanying printed labels, of views documenting John Wesley Powell's surveys of the Green and Colorado Rivers and other parts of the canyon regions for the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Views are divided into two main series, with "Views on the Green River" and "Views on the Colorado River" as the first, and subseries including "Glen Canon," "Marble Canon," "Cataract Canon," and "Grand Canyon"; the second series covers tributaries of the Green and Colorado Rivers with "Views on Kanab Creek"; "Views on the Rio Virgen"; "Views on the Sevier River"; "Views on Colob Plateau"; "Views in the Uinkaret mountains"; "Views on the Escalante River"; "Views on Vermillion Creek"; "Views on Ashley's Creek"; and "Views on Brush Creek". Most of the images are focused on the natural features of the terrain, but a few include members of the survey team. Credited photographers are E.O. Beaman, John K. Hillers, and J. Fennimore.

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Colorado River Survey

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Colorado River Survey - [5 men surveying with transit at the rivers edge.]

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Colorado River - Launching survey boat on Colorado River

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Colorado River - [Launching survey boat on Colorado River] - [plus three additional shots of launch, desertscape and bridge spanning river (SCE 7214, 7215, & 7216) on same photocard]

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Colorado River Survey #2 - Expedition boats on shore at Green River, Utah

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Photographs of Paiute Indians and the Colorado River survey

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