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Original drawing of U.S. President Ronald Reagan standing on a boat and nailing an american flag to the sails of a sinking ship labeled "Feudalism."

Original drawing of U.S. President Ronald Reagan on a row boat labeled "U.S." and throwing a lifebuoy to a man wearing a poncho labeled "Peso" and straddling a tank branded "PEMEX."

Original drawing of a family on a boat, they are being attacked by a machine labeled "The Computer."

Looking down a man-made bridge with row boats on both sides.

The Mike Hallacy collection consists of digital scans of 28 black and white and one color print of the Green and Colorado Rivers. The originals were loaned to the University of Utah by Mike Hallacy in October 2003. They depict some of his river trips on the Green and Colorado Rivers with Reynolds-Hallacy River Expeditions. With A.K. Reynolds, his brother-in-law, Mike Hallacy started the company in the late 1940s to take passengers down the Green River from their home in Green River, Wyoming, through the Uinta Mountains to the Uintah Basin in eastern Utah. Occasionally, Mr. Hallacy went as far as the Colorado River, but most of his trips were on the Green River. These particular images document a 1949 trip with film maker Al Morton; a 1950 film trip sponsored by the Union Pacific Railroad Company; and a late-1940s run on the Wind River in Wyoming. Much of the area documented in the photographs is now covered by the waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir., River trip photographs; 1 Mike Hallacy and A.K. Reynolds at Wind River Whitewater Races, 1949?; 2 Start of 1949 film trip, Green River, Wyoming. L-R: Al Morton; Mike Hallacy; Rhoda Hallacy; C.C. "Lug" Larsen; Ellen Reynolds; A.K. Reynolds; 3 Al Morton, 1949 film trip; 4 1949 film trip. L-R: C.C. "Lug" Larsen, unidentified; unidentified (paying passenger brought by Al Morton); Mike Hallacy; unidentified; A.K. Reynolds; Al Morton (on shore with camera); 5 boat in rapid, Green River. 1949 film trip; 6 Crystal Geyser, Green River, Utah. 1949 film trip.; 7 Mike Hallacy in boat, below Dead Horse Point, Utah. 1949 film trip.; 8-9 Mike Hallacy overlooking Dead Horse Point, Utah; 1949 film trip; 10 Mike Hallacy and Al Morton overlooking Dead Horse Point, Utah; 1949 film trip.; 11 Start of Union Pacific film trip, 1950. Only identified person is C.C. "Lug" Larsen, second from left; 12 Start of 1950 Union Pacific film trip, 1950. Unloading boats at Linwood, Utah. L - R: Bill Coons, Union Pacific still photographer; Mike Hallacy; C.C. "Lug" Larsen; A.K. Reynolds; 13 Start of 1950 Union Pacific film trip, 1950. Unloading boats at Linwood, Utah. L - R: Vince Hunter, Union Pacific cameraman; Bill Coons, Union Pacific still photographer; Mike Hallacy; C.C. "Lug" Larsen; A.K. Reynolds; 14 On the Green River, 1950 Union Pacific film trip. L - R: C.C. "Lug" Larsen (sitting up with camera); Vince Hunter, Union Pacific cameraman (reclining); A.K. Reynolds (at oars); 15 In Horseshoe Canyon, Green River, 1950 Union Pacific film trip. Mike Hallacy at oars; 16-17 Rapid in Red Canyon, Green River, 1950 Union Pacific film trip; 18 overlooking Ashley Falls, 1950 Union Pacific film trip. L - R: Mike Hallacy; A.K. Reynolds; C.C. "Lug" Larsen; Vince Hunter, Union Pacific cameraman; 19-20 boat in Ashley Falls, 1950 Union Pacific film trip; 21 campsite along Green River, 1950 Union Pacific film trip. L - R: C.C. "Lug" Larsen; Mike Hallacy; A.K. Reynolds; Vince Hunter, Union Pacific cameraman; 22 ca.