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English: Guiding a small boat through the narrows of the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry in Marble Canyon, Grand Canyon, c.1900-1923.
  • Photograph of two men guiding a small boat through the narrows of the Colorado River at in Category:Marble Canyon, below Lee's Ferry and above the Grand Canyon, c.1900-1923.
  • One man stands in the small rowboat with a long pole (or oar). The other man stands on shore.
  • The towering nearly-vertical rocky canyon walls loom over the placid river.
  • Some vegetation is visible on the bank at right. The canyon rim is visible far above.


Call number: CHS-3898
Photographer: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Filename: CHS-3898
Coverage date: 1900/1923
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 3898
Microfiche number: 1-91-194
Archival file: chs_Volume96/CHS-3898.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): rivers
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1900/1923
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Legacy record ID: chs-m16442; USC-1-1-1-14262
Geographic subject: rivers: Colorado River; canyons: Grand Canyon
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Natural features -- Parks -- Grand Canyon -- Colorado River -- Marble Canyon
Subject (lcsh): Parks; Canyons; Rivers; Boats and boating
Date 1900/1923 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/16381
Author George Wharton James, 1858—1923

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