- Local call number
- nm0332g001s001b001f0025
- Media type
- Text
- Creator
- Nichols, Tad, 1911-
- Title
- Hite to Lee's Ferry [constructed title], 1955.
- Original creation date
- 1955
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Nichols, Tad
- Content Summary
- A notebook, handwritten by Tad Nichols, documenting his trip from Hite to Lee's Ferry in September and October of 1955. Mentioned are the passengers, geological features, and the rapids.
- Biography/History
- Tad Nichols graduated from the University of Arizona with degrees in geology and anthropology. While in Tucson, he also studied photography; later he continued these studies with Ansel Adams and Brett Weston. He often worked as a scientific photographer. In June, 1950, Nichols ran the San Juan and Colorado rivers through Glen Canyon, serving as a cameraman for a Los Angeles television producer. Nichols continued to explore Glen Canyon and made thirty trips through Glen Canyon between 1950-1963. Nichols' photographs have been published in books and periodicals, including Natural history, U.S. camera, Arizona highways and National geographic.
- Subjects
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Diaries
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Photographers
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Boats and boating--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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Geology--Arizona--Grand Canyon
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White-water canoeing--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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Rapids--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
- Places
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Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Description and travel
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Description and travel
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Lees Ferry (Ariz.)--Description and travel
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Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)--Description and travel
- People
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Nichols, Tad, 1911-
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