Photographs, ca. 1940-1972.

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Photographs, ca. 1940-1972.

Movies include trips in Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, the Green and San Juan Rivers, Lake Mead and the lower Grand Canyon, and the Mackenzie River. Black and white photographs and color slides include life preserver float trips with Georgie White, and portraits of other river people.

3 lin. ft.: movies, black and white negatives and prints, and color slides (35 mm).

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White, Georgie

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Aleson, Harry Leroy, 1899-1972.

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Guide and explorer on the Colorado, Green, and San Juan Rivers in Utah, and the Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers in Canada. From the description of Photographs, ca. 1940-1972. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122601144 River guide. From the description of Papers, 1918-1972. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 84528644 ...

Nevills, Norman D., 1908-1949

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Norman Davies Nevills was born in April, 1908 to William Eugene and Mae Davies Nevills of California. In 1921, William left his family to seek his fortune drilling for oil in Utah, where he became fascinated by rivers. In 1924 he took an open boat trip down the San Juan River. Mae joined her husband in Utah in 1925 while Norm stayed in California to complete his education, attending the College of the Pacific in Stockton for two years before joining his parents in Mexican Hat, Utah ...