Colorado River -- Excursions p.3

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Title Colorado River -- Excursions p.3
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name Colorado_River-Excursions_p.3.tif
Photo Number 01974
Classification 551.47
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960
Subject Canyons; Rivers; Recreation; Group portraits; People; Nature; Tourism; Travel; Boats; Rapids; Shooting rapids; Cliffs; Vacations; Rubber; Photography; Photographers; Motorboats; Towing; Camping
Spatial Coverage Utah; Kane County; Lake Powell
Description Put-putting along via rubber assault boast and outboard motor, this party riding down the Colorado tows a navy rubber raft loaded with provisions and camping equipment. There are four passengers in this boat and gasoline is carried in a steel drum in the bow of the boat. A perpendicular cliff wall is seen in the background. The water here is thirty feet deep. Another assault boat is shortly behind this boat and not shown in the picture. Glen Canyon. From: PID Collection.
Rights Management Digital Image © 2015 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photograph Collection, 551.47 Rivers
Source Format Print photograph
Type Image/StillImage
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Original scanned on Epson Perfection 1240 and saved as 800 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000 pixels on the long axis.
Scanned By Karl Nicholson; Earl Hindley
Barcode Identifier 39222001511398
ARK ark:/87278/s6b010ft
Setname dha_cp
ID 459674
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b010ft
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