Running the Colorado River

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Title Running the Colorado River
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name 39222001338008
Photo Number 17424
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph 1938
Date 1938
Subject Rivers - Utah, Colorado River; Rafting (Sports); Men in popular culture; Boats and boating
Person Burg, Amos; Holmstrom, Haldane "Buzz"; Johnson, Willis
Spatial Coverage Utah; San Juan County
Comment Image shows (left to right) Amos Burg, Haldene "Buzz" Holmstrom, and Willis Johnson. Burg's boat "Charlie" was the first inflatable craft to make a trip from Greev River Lakes, Wyoming to Lake Mead. Holmstrom's boat "Julius F." made the first solo run of the Colorado in 1937 and on this trip became the first to run every rapid on the river.
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2004 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photo Collection, 920 Group Biography
Source Format Paper print
Source Size 10 inches x 8 inches
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Image scanned on Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner at TIFF: 800 ppi resolution and 8-bit grayscale. Dimensions are JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels.
Scanned By Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6xk8nvv
Setname dha_cp
ID 430234
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xk8nvv
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