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Aaron Belnap Ross photograph collection, 1957-1972
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Ross, Aaron Belnap, 1917-1973
- Title
- Aaron Belnap Ross photograph collection
- Dates
- 1957-1972 (inclusive)19571972
- Quantity
- 1378 item
- Collection Number
- P0789
- Summary
- The Aaron Belnap Ross photograph collection consists of 35mm color transparencies taken by Dr. Ross, mainly during his river trips on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States from 1957 to 1971. These include the Green, Colorado, Yampa, San Juan, and other rivers. Besides scenes of camping, rapids, and canyons, Dr. Ross often photographed flowers, historical sites, and other river runners such as Don Harris,Jack Brennan, Otis "Dock" Marston, Jimmy Jordan, and Woody Edgell.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Aaron Belnap Ross Collection (1957-1971) consists of 35mm color transparencies taken by Dr. Ross, mainly as they pertain to his interest in river running on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States. Aaron Belnap Ross was born in Ogden, Utah, on 26 June 1917. After washing out of flight training for the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1941, he became a GP doctor with a practice in Ogden, Utah. He was also an amateur botanist, ornithologist, and photographer, but his real interest lay in running the Green and Colorado Rivers, as well as other rivers, on his own and with Jack Brennan, an early river outfitter who, with Don Harris, ran Harris-Brennan River Expeditions in the 1950s and 1960s. Besides his interest in river running, Ross was also an avid skier, and was the owner and manager of the Gelande Inn, a ski shop and cafeteria at Snow Basin Ski Resort. Ross died of leukemia on 20 October 1973.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Aaron Belnap Ross Collection consists of 35mm color transparencies taken by Dr. Ross, mainly during his river trips on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States. As donated, each river trip was in a separate slide holder, and this original order was maintained with one exception, the folder taking the place of the slide holder. Thus, some folders may contain over 100 slides, while others contain as few as three. It is not known what happened to the other slides in cases where only a few document a particular river trip.
IDENTIFICATIONS: In some cases, individual slides were identified, while others are unlabeled. If present, this identification will be included in the register; if they are of a known location but not identified, the identification will be in brackets [ ___ ]. Where dates are given on the slides, they are reproduced in the register the way they were written on the slide. In some cases, the slides were arranged through their obvious context, and some were either not identifiable, or not dated, or were out of their context and thus could not be readily placed in the proper order. These are found in a Miscellaneous folder at the end of the collection. In some cases, there were no identifications on the slides, nor is there any easily identifiable location or name, so the images in the folders where this is the case are not identified by item. For some folders only those images which are readily identifiable are given a description; all others in that folder are therefore unidentified scenery or persons. Some of the slides came with identifications on the box in which they were filed, but in some cases these are inaccurate or illegible. These box labels have been used whenever possible, but this was not always the case.e Aaron Belnap Ross Collection consists of 35mm color transparencies taken by Dr. Ross, mainly during his river trips on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States. As donated, each river trip was in a separate slide holder, and this original order was maintained with one exception, the folder taking the place of the slide holder. Thus, some folders may contain over 100 slides, while others contain as few as three. It is not known what happened to the other slides in cases where only a few document a particular river trip.
1378 color 35mm transparencies
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The photographs as received from the donor were arranged in chronological order, and that order has been maintained.
Separated Materials
See also the Aaron Belnap Ross papers (ACCN 1714) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.
Processing Note
Processed by Roy Webb in 2002.
Related Materials
This collection forms part of the Utah River Running Archive, which is part of the S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archive
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
River trips, 1957 April-1968 MayReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
1 | 1 | Friendship Cruise
|
1957 |
1 | 2 | Moab to Hite / Cataract Canyon
|
May 1961 |
1 | 3 | Grand Canyon
|
1961 |
1 | 4 | Grand Canyon
|
June 1962 |
1 | 5 | Westwater to Hite
|
June 1962 |
1 | 6 | Cataract Canyon to Glen Canyon
|
April 1963 |
1 | 7 | Cataract Canyon to Glen Canyon
|
June 1963 |
1 | 8 | Desolation Canyon
|
May 1964 |
1 | 9 | Glen Canyon
|
May 1964 |
1 | 10 | Desolation Canyon
|
1965 May-June |
1 | 11 | Cataract Canyon
|
1965 |
1 | 12 | Grand Canyon
|
June 1965 |
1 | 13 | Grand Canyon
|
May 1966 |
1 | 14 | Yampa River
|
July 1966 |
1 | 15 | Wheeler [Peak, Nevada?] Road
|
July 1966 |
1 | 16 | Grand Canyon
|
April 1967 |
1 | 17 | Grand Canyon
|
1968 April-May |
River trips and miscellaneous, 1968 April-1972Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
2 | 1 | Yampa River
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April 1968 |
2 | 2 | Grand Canyon
|
Spril 1968 |
2 | 3 | Grand Canyon
|
June 1968 |
2 | 4 | Grand Canyon
|
April 1969 |
2 | 5 | Cataract Canyon
|
April 1969 |
2 | 6 | Grand Canyon
|
May 1969 |
2 | 7 | Grand Canyon
|
June 1969 |
2 | 8 | Grand Canyon
|
April- May 1970 |
2 | 9 | Southern Utah car camping
|
June 1970 |
2 | 10 | Colorado River above Moab, Utah
|
June 1970 |
2 | 11 | Grand Canyon
|
August 1970 |
2 | 12 | Grand Canyon
|
May 1971 |
2 | 13 | Grand Canyon
|
August 1971 |
2 | 14 | Grand Canyon
|
March 1972 |
2 | 15 | Grand Canyon
|
June 1972 |
2 | 16 | Havasu Canyon
|
undated |
2 | 17 | Miscellaneous
|
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Photographs
- Rafting (Sports)--Green River (Wyo.-Utah)--Photographs