James White Collection

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Volume:
1 black-and-white Polaroid copy photograph, 1 black-and-white copy negative
Portrait(s):
James White
Biographic note:
Born in New York in 1837, James White moved west at age 23 and eventually enlisted in the Army. In 1867, he claims to have become the first white man to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon on a log raft, two years prior to John Wesley Powell's voyage.

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