Tad Nichols collection, 1932-2000.

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Tad Nichols collection, 1932-2000.

Collection consists of diaries, correspondence, publications, business records, and oral history transcripts recording Nichols' explorations. Series of photographs document Nichols' trips through Glen Canyon and Lake Powell (1935-1987). Collection also contains materials used in compiling his book, "Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World: Photographs and Recollections."

20 boxes.

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