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"Across Arizona on a Raft" Tejas Edwards, Grand Canyon Raft Trip (June 1956)

01-01.jpg Text: (Ektachrome embossed 6). "1". "Across Arizona on a Raft"

01-02.jpg Text: (Ektachrome 1). "2". Map of journey.

01-03.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 30): "3". View of the Grand Canyon from the South rim.

01-04.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 25): "4"

01-05.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 1): "5" Georgie White to the right.

01-06.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "7" Boarding the bus to get to the river.

01-07.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "8" Marble Canyon Lodge. Unloading the truck containing all the supplies and rafts.

01-08.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 36): "10" The highway bridge across the Colorado. Soon the party will pass under this bridge.

01-09.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 37): "11" The river upstream of the bridge.

01-10.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "12" Checking out life jackets and getting them on.

01-11.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "13" These are the waterproof bags that contain each person's personal equipment. Each person gets only one bag.

01-12.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "14" Tejas and Irene are ready to start the grand adventure.

01-13.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "15" The smaller rafts as seen from the large raft.

01-14.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "16" The highway bridge as seen from the river.

01-15.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "17" Getting closer to the highway bridge.

01-16.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "18" ---closer---.

01-17.jpg Text: (Ektachrome 19): ---going under the bridge. Some curious people are on the bridge leaning over to watch us pass under.

01-18.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 7): "20" The small rafts passing through a riffle.

01-19.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "21" A little taste of slightly rough water for the small rafts.

01-20.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "22" Small rafts on a large river.

01-21.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 1): "23" First night's stop. Getting the camp ready.

01-22.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "24" Georgie's famous vegetable stew. Notice the child's wading pool in the background. All the other foodstuffs, condiments etc. are inside this wading pool where they are safe from sand being kicked into them.

01-23.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "25" Irene Edwards blows up her air mattress (might as well travel in comfort) as the company prepares to sleep under the stars.

01-24.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 5): "26" Contemplating the waves before running the rapid. A considerable time was spent studying the currents of each major rapid before running it.

01-25.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 6): "27" Here comes one of the small rafts through the rapid.

01-26.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 8): "28" Still water at the end of the rapid.

01-27.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 3): "29" Notice that this slide, which bears the film processor's sequence number (3), must have been taken before the rapid (slides 5 and 6). I have no idea why Tejas changed the sequence in the slide show.

01-28.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 9): "30" Georgie at the helm.

01-29.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 10): "31" Deep canyon and still water.

01-30.jpg Text: (Kodachrome red 11): "32" Rough water ahead?

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