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Call number	NAU.PH.99.3.1.12.15
Item number	20676
Creator	Nichols, Tad, 1911-
Title	[Group, boats, and gear at Hite Ferry.]
Alternate title	Glen Canyon trip [constructed title] 1957 (9/17/57 to 9/25/57)
Date	1957
Type	Image
Description	BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: On September 17, 1957, fourteen people in four Mexican Hat Expeditions boats (the Music Temple, the Redbud, the Nokai, and the Moonlight) set out from Hite Ferry for a week of boating through Glen Canyon. This expedition was sponsored by the Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art and by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The crew consisted of Ned Danson (Assistant Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona and trip archaeologist), Bill Woodin (Director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, part-time Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at MNA, and trip zoologist), Beth Woodin (Bill's wife), Horace Haskell (research associate at MNA and trip botanist), Tad Nichols (trip photographer), Mary Jane Nichols (trip ornithologist), Rukin Jelks (trip geologist), Mrs. Jelks, Lucy Arnold, Rosalind Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Lee Milton, and boatmen Frank Wright and Gay Staveley. Tad's notes for this trip are brief; he simply names the sites visited, refers to much wind throughout their entire time on the river, mentions an aurora one night, and ends with writing on September 24: 'Arr. Dam site at dusk--eerie feeling. Trucks & dust--lights on walls... Waited for...truck in water & sand--after blast, went thru [sic].'
Collection name	Nichols, Tad
Finding aid	http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/nau/nichols_tad.xml
Language	English
Repository	Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
Rights	ABOR
References	Tad Nichols Manuscript Collection - NAU.MS.332; Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World, Photographs and Recollections - by Tad Nichols
Subjects	Ferries--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Boats and boating--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Places	Hite (Utah) Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)
Physical format	Black and white polyester film negative
Physical dimension	6x6cm
Master file size	38365324
Master mimetype	image/tiff
Master file format	tif
Hardware	Imacon Flextight 848
Software	Photoshop 6.0
Master color scheme	Grayscale
Master image bit depth	16-bit
Master resolution	2000
Master pixels horizontal	4391
Master pixels vertical	4368

[Group, boats, and gear at Hite Ferry.]

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