Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom

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Title Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name 39222001351738
Photo Number 17409
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph 11 June 1938
Date 1938-06-11
Subject Discovery and exploration; Rivers - Utah, Colorado River; Boats; Soldiers
Person Holmstrom, Haldane "Buzz"; Pierce, Jennings
Spatial Coverage Utah
Comment Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom is standing with Jennings Pierce on an NBC radio program. The photograph is signed "'Buzz Holmstrom' - One of the grandest guys I've ever known - Jennings Pierce NBC - June 11 1938. Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom (left) was a river adventurer who, in 1937, was the first man to navigate the Colorado River alone. He was shot and killed mysteriously in 1946, on a river bank in Oregon.
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2004 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photo Collection, 921 Biography
Source Format Paper print
Source Size 5 inches x 7 inches
Source Donors Smith, Anna
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/s69s1zhx
Setname dha_cp
ID 431601
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s1zhx
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