Institution: The Huntington Library
Collection Title: Otis R. “Dock” Marston River Collection
Date (inclusive): 1870-1978
Collection Identifier: mssMarston papers
Repository (location info): The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Finding Aid link: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf438n99sg/admin/
Website link: http://www.huntington.org
RBMVE Biographical Note: Otis Marston was a Southwest river historian and river runner. He spent the last 30 years of his life researching for his book “From Powell to Power: A Recounting of the First 100 River Runners through the Grand Canyon.”
Scope and Content: This collection houses all of Marston’s research for the book, and includes material about quite a few members of the RBMVE river trip participants.
Many of the photographs from this collection are available as part of a collection in the Huntington Library’s Digital Archive: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll5. At least 40 photos related to RBMVE were located using the search term “RB-MV.”
Container List or Summary of RBMVE-related Material: RBMVE personnel material found in:
Box 9 “Ballard Atherton”
Box 10 “Suren Babington”
Box 19 “Charles L. Bernheimer”
Box 29 “Charles L. Camp”
Box 83 “Herbert Gregory”
Box 84 and 181 “Norman D. Nevills”
Box 123 “Edwin Dinwiddie McKee”
Box 186 “Walter R. Buss” and “General RBMVE”
Box 199 “Kenneth Ross”
Box 369 “RBMVE 1933 General Coverage”
