National Parks Portfolio
Washington DC: Department of the Interior, [1916]. First Edition. 8vo. 7 (of 9) separate pamphlets laid in to publisher's printed brown portfolio. The 7 pamphlets include: Yosemite (28 illustrations); Sequoia (27 illustrations); Mount Rainier (24 illustrations); Crater Lake (23 illustrations and 2 diagrams); Mesa Verde (27 illustrations); Glacier (25 illustrations); Rocky Mountain (29 illustrations). A map of the National Parks and principal railroad connections is printed on the verso of the portfolio wrapper. Light wear; previous owner name on front cover; else a near fine (and a near complete) collection of early National Parks ephemera. Item #23009
Robert Sterling Yard (1861 – 1945) was an American writer, journalist, wilderness activist and an important figure in the modern wilderness movement. In 1915, he was recruited by his friend Stephen Tyng Mather (1867 – 1930) American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service, to help publicize the need for an independent national park agency. Their numerous publications were part of a movement that resulted in legislative support for a National Park Service (NPS) in 1916. Yard and Mather's most successful publicity initiative during this time was the National Parks Portfolio (1916), a collection of nine pamphlets that—through photographs interspersed with text lauding the scenic grandeur of the nation's major parks—connected the parks with a sense of national identity to make visitation an imperative of American citizenship. Yard and Mather distributed this publication to a carefully selected list of prominent Americans, including every member of Congress. - wiki.
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