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Photographs of Paiute Indians and the Colorado River survey
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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.
photPF 811-893
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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.
photCL 149
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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.
photCL 127
Colorado River Survey
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Colorado River Survey - [5 men surveying with transit at the rivers edge.]
photCL SCE 02 - 07045
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]
photCL SCE 02 - 07213
Colorado River Survey #2
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Colorado River Survey #2 - Expedition boats on shore at Green River, Utah
photCL SCE 02 - 07702