Family Gallery
The young man in the center of the steps is Marc Gaede's maternal grandfather, Irving Brant, a 10th generation American. Brant would later become the principal biographer of President James Madison, eventually writing six volumes on Madison. Because James Madison is the father of the United States Constitution, Brant's scholarly work would become a basis for interpreting the Constitution. The Irving Brant Papers are held in the Special Collections of the University of Iowa, National Library of Congress, and Princeton University Library.
Brant was an important figure in the early conservation movement in the United States, including the establishment of Olympic and Kings Canyon National Parks (Brant surveyed and set the boundaries of both parks). He was a founding member of the Emergency Conservation Committee in 1929 with Rosalie Edge and Willard Van Name. Additionally, Brant was the primary environmental advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickies. Brant saved the Bogachiel and Hoh Rain Forest under President Harry S. Truman, and presented Stewart Udall to President-elect John F. Kennedy for Secretary of the Interior.
E. Cardon (Card) Walker (1916-2005), Marnie Walker’s father is the officer sitting in the middle with his arms crossed in this 1944 photo on the flight deck of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17).
Card Walker in 1944. He was the only flight deck officer of the original deck crew to survive the war.
Marnie Walker’s mother Winnie and father Card Walker arrive in Paris, c.1955, aboard the Pan American, Clipper America, Super Constellation. The Walkers often made business trips for the Disney Company.
After the war Card Walker returned to his employment at the Walt Disney Company becoming head of publicity in 1950, supervising the establishment of Walt Disney World, becoming President in 1971, later CEO, establishing Tokyo Disneyland, the Disney Channel, Epcot, and finally Chairman in 1980. He retired in 1984, but remained on the Board of Directors until 2000, having been on the Disney board for 50 continuous years.
Marc Gaede (left) and Steve Hayden (right) excavating an Anasazi kiva north of Navajo Mountain, Glen Canyon Project (southern), 1961.
Little Marnie Sharon Walker sharing her ice-cream with "Tramp", Walt Disney Studios, Animation Building in background, c.1954. This dog was the model for "Tramp" in the animation film "Lady and the Tramp". Marnie still takes care of homeless animals.
Archaeological field camp, Monument Valley, Utah, 1962. Marc is seated washing dishes on the right.
Chinde (ghost) Hogan in ruins, Paiute Mesa Survey, Navajo Reservation, c.1962.
Marc excavating at Kinlichee Ruins, Navajo Reservation, c.1963.
Promotion to Lance Corporal, 1966, Marc Gaede (back row fourth from left). Photographic Section, Mainsides, Camp Pendleton, California.
Marc Gaede on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), 1968.
Marnie and her father Card Walker at the premier opening of the Disney animation film, Jungle Book, 1967.
Winnie Walker at Jackson Hole, Teton Mountains, 1967. photo by Marnie
Marc and his motorcycle, Tucson, 1969. photo by Robert Nagoda
Marnie Walker and her camera, early morning, Isla de Tobago, Trinidad, 1970. Photo by Dennis Burnham
Marc Gaede (center) at the World Parachuting Championships, Bled, Yugoslavia, 1970. Skydiving and base-jumping cinematographer legend Carl Boenish is on the left and Ted Webster is on the right. This was the first the world knew about formation skydiving. Marc received skydiving license #B6407 in 1967. Photo courtesy Jean Boenish.
Marc in his photo office at the Museum of Northern Arizona, 1971.
Huaca de la Luna, Chan Chan, Peru
Marnie in the Galapagos Islands,1973. Back then, the Lina A was the only tourist boat in the entire Galapagos, and it held 60 passengers which accommodated approximately 2,200 visitors yearly. Today over 160,000 tourists visit annually.
Marnie in Park Service jacket provided by Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Marc Gaede, Card Walker, and Marnie Walker Gaede beside the Disney Company’s Gulfstream 1 airplane, Aspen, Colorado, 1976. This aircraft was once the personal airplane of Walt Disney
Marc printed nearly 8,000 of Ansel’s Sierra and Yosemite negatives for the book Yosemite and the Range of Light in this darkroom. He also mounted approximately 800 fine sale prints for Ansel in the five months Marc worked for him as “temporary darkroom assistant.” Alan Ross was Ansel’s primary assistant during Marc’s tenure.
Photographer Tad Nichols (1911-2000) and Marc Gaede, Bryce Canyon, Utah, 1977. Nichols was the greatest photographer of Glen Canyon before it was flooded.
Miles being initiated into Hopi Water Clan (Patkinyamu) village of Shungopovi, 1981. These “aunties” give his Hopi name after his hair has been washed. Miles’ Hopi name is Nuvataka, which doesn’t directly translate, but roughly means ‘man in snow’
Marnie, Marcus, Miles, Virginia and Ansel Adams, Carmel, California, 1984.
Tracey Eskander (stage manager), Marc Gaede (Associate Producer), Lee Guttenberg (lighting director), and Marnie Gaede, TV show Divorce Court, 1986. Marc worked for two years (1984-86) as a production manager/associate producer in Hollywood.
Marcus being initiated into Hopi Kachina Clan (Ungwish-wungwa), village of Hotevilla, 1988. His Hopi name is Anqgwusi, which translates to “Crow Kachina”.
A.B. Guthrie Jr. (1901-1991) and Miles Gaede, Choteau, Montana, 1988. Guthrie is one of the great authors of the American West. The state of Montana is called The Big Sky State after his book The Big Sky (1947). The portraits on the wall are of his friends and contemporaries, historian Bernard DeVoto (left) and poet Robert Frost (right). This photograph is reproduced in Guthrie’s autobiography, Blue Hen’s Chick, University of Nebraska Press.
Miles, Marcus, and Marnie Gaede on the Sea Shepherd 11, Los Angeles Harbor, 1989. The ship had just finished the Dolphin Campaign.
Myra Finkelstein and Marnie in the engine room of the Sea Shepherd 11,1990. Myra is an old hand at Sea Shepherd. She completed her Ph.D. in avian biology, and is an expert on bird lead toxicology. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
David Howitt and Marc Gaede in the engine room of the Sea Shepherd 11, Driftnet Campaign, 1990.
Marc, Robert Sundance, Marnie, skid row, Los Angeles, California, 1992. Marc and Marnie wrote Sundance’s autobiography and published the book in 1994. Marc drove Sundance’s body home to his reservation in South Dakota when died of cancer in 1993.
Marc Gaede and Murray Gell-Mann, Creede, Colorado. Gell-Mann was the Nobel Prize recipient in Physics in 1969 for his theoretical discovery of Quarks. Murray was a good friend to Marc and Marnie in the mid-1980s, and three of them would occasionally spend a Saturday afternoon “booking,” visiting all the used bookstores time allowed followed by a fine dinner out.
Marc with Canadian writer Farley Mowat, 1998
Marc and Hominid Vault Curator, Christopher Kiarie, Nairobi, Kenya, 1999.
Left to right: Miles Gaede, Robert Hunter, Marc Gaede, Peter Brown, Sea Shepherd Ocean Warrior, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, Grind Stop, 2000.
Ivory Burn, Kenya
Bukima, Congo
Zaverine, Katale Airport
