Snake and Salmon Rivers, 1946

File — Box: 5, Folder: 7

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Nevills and unidentified looking at log book
Photograph number 2: Norman Nevills, Preston Walker, Kent Frost, Otis Marston
Photograph number 3: photographing the rapids: ?, Norman Nevills, Pres Walker, Otis Marston
Photograph number 4-5: Nevills taking a look at rapids
Photograph number 6: group pictures at takeoff: "JOAN": Dock Marston (boat man), Margaret Marston, Joe Desloge; "WEN": Norman D. Nevills, ?, ?; "MYSTERY CANYON": Pres Walker (boat man), Loel Marston, Maradel Marston, Pat Reilly; "MEXICAN HAT II": Kent Frost (boat man), Shirley Marston, ?
Photograph number 7: Margaret, ?, Loel and Maradel Marston
Photograph number 8: Maradel Martson, Kent Frost, ?, ?, Pres Walker, Joel Marston, Neil C. And Bruce Wilson, Margaret Marston, Norman Nevills, ?, Howard Welty
Photograph number 9: Nevills Expedition: Preston Walker, boatman, managing editor of the "Grand Junction Sentinel" (Colorado); Loel and Maradel Marston, 21 year old twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Marston; Neil Wilson, short story writer and correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post; Norman Nevills, celebrated river-rat of the Colorado, Green and San Juan Rivers; Bruce Wilson, son of Post Writer who celebrated his 15th Birthday on the Colorado and his 17 salmon; Kent Frost, boatman; Otis Marston, (standing on boat) San Francisco broker, also boatman for the expedition; Pauline Saylor; Mrs. Marston; June Chamberlain, nurse; Howard O. Welty, traveler and lecturer, Oakland California, photographer for the expedition. On the Salmon, near Riggins, Idaho. July 25, 1946.
Photograph number 10: The party sitting down to a meal
Photograph number 11: Unidentified people with Nevills

Dates

1946

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