The William Culp Darrah Photograph Collection, ca. 1946-1972

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Summary Description

Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 361
Creator: Darrah, William Culp, 1909-1989.
Title:William Culp Darrah Photograph Collection, ca. 1946-1972
Quantity:4 fds.
Abstract:Photographs relating to Powell of the Colorado (1951) and Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15-17.

Persons:

Marston, Otis Reed 1894-1979.
Morgan, Dale Lowell, 1914-1971.
Powell, Maj. John Wesley, 1834-1902 -- Photographs.
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-

Places:

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Photographs.
Green River (Wyoming-Utah) -- Photographs.

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Background

Background Note

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Scope and Content

Photographs relating to Powell of the Colorado (1951) and Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15-17.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

William Culp Darrah Photograph Collection, ca. 1946-1972, Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Donated by Elsie Darrah Morey.

Restrictions on Use

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Processing Information:

Collection processed by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 1999 (RLIN ID: UTSX99-A33).

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000.

Related collections

The photographs in this collection were separated from Mss B 361.


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Container list

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Contents

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Powell Expedition/Family

1. Powell, Major John Wesley, December 1869
2. Powell, Emma Dean--wife of John Wesley Powell, ca. 1869
3. Powell, John Wesley [dressed in uniform]
4. Thompson, "Harry," W. Bramwell Thompson, "Nellie" Thompson, J. W. Powell, Mary Powell Wheeler (Topeka, Kansas), ca. 1900
5. Monument "L" (Southern Utah), ca. 1964
6. "The Emma Dean," lead boat--Powell's 2nd Colorado Expedition, 1871-1872
7. Across the Grand Canyon, 1872
7-A. Powell, Maud
8. Powell, Mary Dean and one of the Kolb Brothers (Grand Canyon, Arizona)
9. Kittredge, Supt. Frank and Mary Dean Powell (Grand Canyon)
10. Powell, Major John Wesley, monument honoring (Arlington National Cemetery), ca. 1914
11-11A. Powell, Major John Wesley and Native American Indian, ca. 1873
12. Powell, Rev. Joseph [oil portrait]
13. Powell, Mary Dean--wife of Rev. Joseph Powell [oil portrait]
14. Group photograph--Geikie Excursion, 1897 [3 copies]
15. "A halt for observations" (Colorado River)
16. Repairing--"Maid of the Canyon" at the mouth of Dirty Devil (Fremont River)
17. Jones, Hillers, Dellenbaugh (Lodore Canyon)
18. Dean, Harriet-- wife of John Wesley Powell, ca. 1869

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Powell Expedition/Family (cont)

1. Powell, Major John Wesley, age 35 (Wheaton, Illinois)
2. "The Great Basin Mess"--Powell's retirement from the U.S.G.S., ca. May 1894
3. Powell, Major John Wesley [oil painting by Edmund Clarence Messer]
4. Powell, Major John Wesley--second director of the U.S.G.S., ca. 1881-1804 [2 copies]
5. Farm--late 1840s--similar to that owned by Rev. Joseph Powell (Walworth County, Wisconsin), 1846-1850
6. Davis, John, family (Decatur, Illinois)
7. Powell, Mary Dean
8. Powell, Major John Wesley--in Adams Building Office, ca. 1896
9. Cabin--Ft. Robidoux, Green River (mouth of the Uinta River), ca. 1871
10. Powell, Major John Wesley--with group on boat
11. Unidentified group outside home--unidentified fort?
12-13. Group (Second Powell Expedition)
14. Second Powell Expedition
15. Hillers, John K.--Second Powell Expedition
16. First camp--Second Powell Expedition [Hillers, photographer]

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Powell Expedition/Family (cont)

1. Powell, Major John Wesley and unidentified man in uniform at table
2. Journal entry page [copy]
3. Unidentified man in uniform [2 copies]
4. Powell, Major John Wesley
5. Unidentified man
6-7. Powell, Rev. Joseph, farm (Walworth County, Wisconsin), 1846-1850
8-9. Powell, Major John Wesley, grave marker
10. Jackson, William Henry, grave marker
11. Thompson, Almon Harris
12. Thomspn, Ellen Powell
13. Thompson, grave marker
14-15. Apartment building--910 M Street NW (Washington, D.C.)
16. Powell, Major John Wesley
17. Powell, Major John Wesley--age 67, 1901 [2 copies]
18-19. Powell, Major John Wesley

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Powell-Thompson Survey [photograph captions with caption identifying information]