Grand Canyon Historical Society Digitization Project
The Grand Canyon Historical Society is digitizing its historic collection! If you are a history buff there are some amazing and fun items to discover in our collection. And it is available to you online!
The Grand Canyon Historical Society Collection is physically housed on the Northern Arizona University Cline Library in Special Collections. Through this ongoing digitization project we are constantly adding material to the online platform.
It is through the talents of archivist Amelia Swann, Patrick Conley and Malia Runge, the extremely generous donations of the Hayes family, the commitment of funds by the GCHS Board and a grant from Arizona Humanities that has allowed the Society to put its collection online.
Come visit our collection. You will find it fascinating. Here is the link and a couple of quick examples to tantalize you.
The Grand Canyon Historical Society Collection is physically housed on the Northern Arizona University Cline Library in Special Collections. Through this ongoing digitization project we are constantly adding material to the online platform.
It is through the talents of archivist Amelia Swann, Patrick Conley and Malia Runge, the extremely generous donations of the Hayes family, the commitment of funds by the GCHS Board and a grant from Arizona Humanities that has allowed the Society to put its collection online.
Come visit our collection. You will find it fascinating. Here is the link and a couple of quick examples to tantalize you.
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1905
[Letter from William Wallace Bass to Frank Polson, January 4, 1905] One page letter from William Wallace Bass to Frank Polson on Polson Brothers letterhead in which Bass discusses the impending lawsuit by Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway against Ralph Cameron regarding the Bright Angel Trail. Bass describes his plan to prevent the lawsuit from going forward including his hope that Polson and Cameron can block it since they make up the majority of the Coconino County Board of Supervisors. Bass also mentions a potential sale of Cameron property. |
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183767 (NAU.PH.90.9.227)
[View: Navajo Falls], 1915 ~ Description: Navajo Falls was at one time the first prominent waterfall in the canyon. Now called Old Navajo, the fall was made dry when a flood in August 2008 diverted the course of the water to the southeast. ~ This is a great example of the hundreds of photographs one can find of places in and around the canyon as they looked over a century ago, many of which have changed greatly over the years. Tourists visiting Navajo Falls today would be greeted with a very different sight. |
183668 (NAU.PH.90.9.169)
[Dr. Charles W. Gilmore with specimen crates from Doheny Expedition], circa 1924
~ Historical note: Charles W. Gilmore was curator of vertebrate paleontology at the United States National Museum. In October and November 1924, Gilmore and Samuel Hubbard, "honorary" curator of archaeology at the Oakland Museum, led a scientific expedition in Supai at the Grand Canyon to search for evidence of prehistoric man. Art Metzger signed on to assist the expedition, which was funded by oil magnate E. L. Doheny.
~ The purpose and "findings" of this expedition and Edward Laurence Doheny himself are fascinating (the "discoveries" made on this expedition are often used to refute evolution, and the main character in the film There Will Be Blood is loosely based on Doheny).
[Dr. Charles W. Gilmore with specimen crates from Doheny Expedition], circa 1924
~ Historical note: Charles W. Gilmore was curator of vertebrate paleontology at the United States National Museum. In October and November 1924, Gilmore and Samuel Hubbard, "honorary" curator of archaeology at the Oakland Museum, led a scientific expedition in Supai at the Grand Canyon to search for evidence of prehistoric man. Art Metzger signed on to assist the expedition, which was funded by oil magnate E. L. Doheny.
~ The purpose and "findings" of this expedition and Edward Laurence Doheny himself are fascinating (the "discoveries" made on this expedition are often used to refute evolution, and the main character in the film There Will Be Blood is loosely based on Doheny).
