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Outskirts of Blanding - Bert Loper's Cabin, 40 35mm color slides

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents

  1. 1: Outskirts of Blanding
  2. 2: Map drawn by Barfoot of the Four Corner's Area
  3. 3: Map drawn by Barfoot of Glen Canyon Detail
  4. 4: Map drawn by Barfoot of Hite's Landing, White Canyon, Red Canyon, Loper's Cabin, and Bear's Ear
  5. 5: Approaching Bears Ear
  6. 6: White Canyon Trading Post
  7. 7: Boys look around a bit, Lower White Canyon
  8. 8: Boys overlook arches scenery
  9. 9-10: Arches country
  10. 11: Gong at Hite's Crossing, Chaffin's Ferry
  11. 12: Mr. Chaffin's ferry, Hite, Utah
  12. 13: Fastening Deck
  13. 14: River just below Hite's ferry
  14. 15: Lower White Canyon, Henry Mountains
  15. 16: Drift past old mining installation, about 12-15 miles below Hite
  16. 17: Bert Loper's cabin
  17. 18: Bert Loper's cabin, irrigation lift
  18. 19: Trees, sand bar, slit of a canyon wall, down Glen Canyon
  19. 20: Is that a boat over on that bar?!!
  20. 21: New vistas every minute, Upper Glen Canyon
  21. 22-24: Upper Glen Canyon
  22. 25: Upper Glen Canyon, canyon walls gradually deepen
  23. 26: Upper Glen Canyon, late afternoon
  24. 27: Mid Glen Canyon, above Rincon, shallow water, wide and slow river
  25. 28: Nice riffle above the Rincon
  26. 29-30: Riffle above the Rincon
  27. 31: The Rincon-upwarp (circle cliffs upwarp) here exposes painted desert (chinle) formation
  28. 32: Just above Escalante mouth
  29. 33: Mouth of the Escalante, north shore (note "Bullfrog")
  30. 34: Mouth of Escalante
  31. 35: Mid Glen Canyon, drifting just below Escalante
  32. 36: Diving exhibition, mid-Glen Canyon
  33. 37: Map drawn by Barfoot of Hole in Rock detail
  34. 38-39: Hole in Rock
  35. 40: Hole in the Rock, above-switchbacks below

Dates

  • 1950-1952

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Extent

From the Collection: .2 Linear Feet (1 archives box) : 163 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
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