1923] BARRETT, PHOTOGRAPHING IN GRAND CANYON 157 



PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE GRAND CANYON 



By S. a. Barrett^* 



The Museum's second geological summer, that of 1923, in the 

 Grand Canyon was a continuation of its 1922 work, but covered a 

 wider range. 



Photography had played an important part in the first summer's 

 work, but then we had had only two cameras. Mr. Edwards busied 

 himself with the large view camera, while the writer devoted his at- 

 tentions to the motion picture outfit. 



This first season's work resulted in a considerable series of excellent 

 still pictures of interesting points and in several thousands of feet of 

 motion picture negative. Incidentally, it netted a large amount of 

 valuable experience for both operators, for photography at this high 

 altitude and under the desert conditions of the Grand Canyon region 

 is quite a different matter from that under other climatic and environ- 

 mental conditions. 



We had now added to our equipment a large "cirkut" camera and 

 a good graflex, and, not the least to be considered, an extra operator, 

 in the person of Mr. John A. Jeske, who assisted both of us in many 

 ways with the various cameras. 



Our work had been, up to this time, almost entirely along the 

 South Rim of the Canyon, but now we determined upon a more de- 

 tailed study, which took us down into the Canyon and across to the 

 North Rim. Elsewhere^" in these pages, are described our pack train 

 and the details of journey. Here we need only concern ourselves 

 with such features of the trip as affected particularly our photographic 

 work. 



Since a photographic record was to be one of the most important 

 results of our trip, I at the outset requested our chief guide, Tom 

 Lilly, to select the steadiest and surest-footed of the sixteen pack 

 mules that comprised our string and to load our camera equipment on 

 him. A very docile looking light brown mule, bearing the highly 

 euphoneus name of "Skedoo" was detailed to transport our precious 

 equipment. When the motion picture and view cameras had been 

 packed onto Skedoo's saddle, he had a full load and a second mule 

 was requisitioned to carry the cirkut camera, the movie tripod and 

 certain other accessories. The major part of the pack train is shown 

 in figure 84 at Santa Maria Spring, where we stopped on our way 

 down Hermit Trail. 



^^Director, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



**Edwards, Ira. "A Second Season at the Grand Canyon, Arizona," pp. 47 — 62. 



