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Grand Canyon, WY to Mexico Photograph Book 1920 [182536]

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Grand Canyon, WY to Mexico Photograph Book 1920 [182536]
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Through the Grand Canyon, from Wyoming to Mexico, Ellsworth L. Kolb, New York: The Macmillan Co., 1920, first published in 1914. Signed by Emery C. Kolb in 1921, who along with his brother, the author, Ellsworth L. Kolb, operated a photography business on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon that endured and prospered from 1903 to 1976. The brothers floated the Colorado from Wyoming to Mexico in 1911. They returned with the first motion pictures of the journey-on-the-water ever seen. Emery took the movie on the road, delivering lectures on stages and showing his film. Emery Kolb's show was viewed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and his son-in-law, Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, (who was the head of the National Geographic Society.) The next issue was almost completely devoted to the river sojourn. The brothers parted ways in 1913 and after a coin toss Emery kept the photo studio and Ellsworth returned alone to Needles, Calif., the following year. There he purchased a boat and using the higher waters of the springtime floods, he floated to the ocean in Mexico. He wrote this book recounting the adventure. Emery married former Harvey Girl Blanche Bender in 1905 and they had one daughter, Edith. Emery continued to take photographs and operate the studio, where he showed his and Ellsworth's films in the basement theater until his death in 1976 at the age of 95. The Kolb Studio still exists at the Grand Canyon today. 344 pp., 6" x 8.5", with illustrations. Very good. [