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The George Barfoot photograph collection consists of slides taken by George Barfoot documenting a trip down Glen Canyon in 1952.

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Ray Bramble photograph collection consists of slides documenting trips through Glen Canyon by Ray Bramble and his family.

Abstract The Reynold Brown digital photograph collection contains images taken during a South Cottonwood Ward (SOCOTWA) river expedition on the Colorado River during the spring of 1958. Images include unidentified Glen Canyon scenery, expedition members swimming and hiking, and Lake Powell scenery. None of the images are identified. The Brown collection contains digital scans only taken from 35mm slides; originals were...

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The Arthur L. Chaffin photographs contains materials concerning Chaffin's owning and operating of the Chaffin Ferry and his mining career. Arthur L. Chaffin operated the ferry across the Colorado River at Hite, Utah until the site was covered by Lake Powell in the 1960s. He was also extensively involved in mining in southeastern Utah.

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The Alvin Colville photograph collection consists of slides documenting a trip taken by Alvin Colville and others down the Colorado River in Glen Canyon.

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The Fred T. Darvill photograph collection consists of images and slides documenting a trip down Glen Canyon in 1959. The trip was led by Jack Brennan and Don Harris of Harris-Brennan Expeditions. The main purpose of the trip was to hike to Rainbow Bridge.

This collection is entirely digitalized and available online in our Digital Library.

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The William Dawson photograph collection contains photographs of himself while in office and also fellow congressmen and staff members. There are also several photographs of the proposed Glen Canyon Dam area in southern Utah.

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Beginning in 1963 with the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon and its 125 side canyons were flooded. This collection contains 2 color slides of Glen Canyon in 1957.

Abstract The Greg Dimmitt and David Thompson photograph collection consists of digital scans of 35mm slides taken by Greg Dimmitt and David Thompson. These photographs document various river trips on the Colorado and San Juan Rivers in which Mr. Dimmitt and Mr. Thompson participated. The original 35mm slides from which these digital scans were made were returned to the donors after the scanning was completed in April...

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The Grace Fites photograph collection consists of slides documenting a trip through Glen Canyon just before the formation of Lake Powell.

Abstract The Howard Foulger photograph collection consists of images which document a trip on the Colorado River through Glen Canyon in which Howard Foulger participated. The dates of the trip were May 2 - 5, 1951. No further biographical information about Howard Foulger is available. The trip went from Hite Ferry, at the upper end of Glen Canyon, through Glen Canyon to Lees Ferry, Arizona. Captions and descriptions were...

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The Beverly Kuhns digital photograph collection consists of 80 digital scans taken from 35mm color transparencies. The original slides were taken by Ruth Pieroth, a retired schoolteacher from Escalante, Utah, during a series of visits to the Glen Canyon damsite from 1957 through about 1962.

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The William "Bert" A. Lucas contains color slides of Glen Canyon between 1949 and 1951, ten years before the canyon was flooded to fill the Powell Reservoir in 1963.

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The Daniel B. Luten Glen Canyon photograph collection consists of slides that were organized by Daniel Luten for a presentation encouraging the restoration of Glen Canyon. All slides were captioned by Daniel B. Luten; captions are included in this register.

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The Ruth McDonough photograph collection consists of digital scans of 56 black and white and 6 color snapshots taken with a Brownie camera by Ruth McDonough on two separate river trips with SOCOTWA, an LDS river-running organization. The six color photos in Folder 1 were taken by someone else on the trip and later given to Ms. McDonough; the black and white photos were all taken by her.

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David Eugene Miller (1909-1978) was a historian and history professor at the University of Utah. The David E. Miller photograph collection contains photographs and slides related to Miller's historical research into the history of Utah and the American West.

Abstract The Mary Armstrong Milligan photograph collection consists of slides and photographs of river trips in Glen Canyon during the 1950s and 1960s. Mary A. Milligan was part of the crew on several SOCOTWA river trips in the late 1950s and early 1960s. SOCOTWA was an organization founded in the South Cottonwood Ward, Salt Lake County, that organized recreational and educational field trips for LDS groups, Boy Scouts,...

Abstract The A. Oscar Olson photograph collection consists of digital scans of slides put together as a slide show by A. Oscar Olson. Most of them were taken during a Glen Canyon river trip with SOCOTWA Expeditions in May, 1962; while the rest were taken on later visits to Lake Powell in the 1960s through 1990s. He took the later photographs in order to show the changes in the original locations brought about by the filling...

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The Marjorie G. Paul photograph collection documents a 1951 trip down Glen Canyon, but expanded to include her personal travel.

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The Lloyd M. Pierson photograph collection consists of images of Glen Canyon taken during an archeological survey trip in 1958.