National Parks Portfolio

Archery of the Mandans

Untitled (#19 from the North American Indian portfolio)

North American Indians

Wi-Jun-Jon, Going to Washington; Returning to his Home, No.25 in a series

Western Life, The Trapper

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, 18, The Rapids at Niagara

Niagara Falls From Table Rock

Panoramic View of the Falls of Niagara

A Distant View of the Falls of Niagara

View of Yosemite Valley

Yosemite Falls, 2634 ft.

The Three Brothers, 4,480 feet, Yosemite Valley

Watkins presents a view of a set of three peaks known as the “three brothers” within Yosemite Valley. In the foreground is a sparse forest of pine…

Eagle Point, 4000 ft., from Near Hutchings Hotel, Yosemite Valley

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Arched Falls Foot of Mt. Blackmore M.T.

Viewing Thomas Moran at the source: Artist’s Point, Yellowstone

The Wheeler Survey, View on Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona

Pontoon Bridge across the Rappahannock, plate 32 from Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War

Eroded Sandstones, Monument Park, Colorado

Devil’s Gate (Along the Union Pacific Railroad)

Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail

North Mountain and Catskill Creek

Mount Ktaadn

View of Cotopaxi

Chimborazo Volcano

Study of a Rock

Niagara Falls

See America / Dux

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California

Mount Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California

Valley of the Yosemite

Following his first trip to the Rocky Mountains in 1859, Albert Bierstadt returned to the western United States in 1863 with his friend, the author…

The Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point

Carleton Watkins was the consummate photographer of the American West. Born in Oneonta, New York, he moved to California in 1849, taught himself the…

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Night in the Yosemite

Untitled (Arizona Canyon)

See America / Frank S. Nicholson

Grand Canyon

The Destroyer

Moonlight View from Crescent Rock from Shenandoah National Park, Souvenir Views Match Cover series

In the 20th century, souvenir matchbooks could be found at restaurants and popular tourist destinations, a small memento that visitors could take home…

Men's Bathing Department, Bath House, Hot Springs National Park, Ark.

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

A Yellowstone Geyser

The National Parks Postcard Coloring Book

“Discover tranquility and peace by coloring in beautiful landscape and wildlife postcards from America’s most iconic national parks,” invites the…

Yosemite Valley-California: "The Bridal Veil" Fall

Twins with Matching Outfits at Lower Falls Outlook

In the 1970s at Yosemite, Roger Minick realized that young photographers were taught to photograph the park from the same famous overlooks,…

El Capitan, Yosemite

Merced River, Yosemite Valley

The Teton Range

Our Banner In the Sky

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt is one of the two most exceptional students of the Hudson River School, the other being Frederic Church. They often found themselves…

Summit Central Pacific Railroad, California

National Park Hats for Crater Lake, Big Bend, and Carlsbad Caverns

Designed and marketed by Sendero Provisions Co. (2014-) the National Parks collection of hats serve as an homage to what the company calls “America’s…

The Sentinel Rock, 3270ft

Carleton Watkins is often considered the consummate photographer of the American West (“Carleton Watkins: Yosemite”, 2014). Best known for his mammoth…

Grand Prismatic Spring with Tourists, Yellowstone, WY

This photograph by artist David Maisel shows a modern bird’s eye view of a world-renowned tourist site, Yellowstone National Park. Maisel is well…

Falls of the Yosemite

Pave It and Paint It Green

This image juxtaposes two things that have historically been constructed as antithetical: nature and human intervention. The top half of the…

Shade Tree in Bloom, Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most-visited national park in the United States, yet it does not occupy the same national mystique as its…

Roadway Construction Methods and Evolution

Map of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers and their tributaries

There is a strong temptation to view maps as an unbiased depiction of reality, but the drastically dissimilar end products of pre-national-park…

President Roosevelt's Western Tour: Visiting Liberty Gap

Smokey Says: Forest Fire Prevention Campaign

Journey Through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming

This collection of six images comes from a book documenting the voyage of then-President of the United States, Chester Arthur, to Yellowstone in 1883.…

Bears in the Yellowstone National Park

Everglades

Patagonia Winter 2016 Catalog (U.S.)

Landscape perception has changed significantly over time. Since the 16th century, the artistic portrayal of landscape has been shaped by…

Rocky Mountains, "Lander's Peak"

What do you love about your national parks?

Landscape perception has changed significantly over time. Since the 16th century, the artistic portrayal of landscape has been shaped by…

1986 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

In 1986 the National Park Service launched the “Passport to Your National Parks” program in conjunction with Eastern National, a non-profit…

Old Faithful Geyser

Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 360 Feet

This photograph has yellowed over time, creating virtually no contrast between the white sky and white water when they meet just above the center of…

A Commotion in the Devil's Ink Pot. A Moment of eruption, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.

Gibbon Falls, 84 Feet

Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Menu

Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs

The barren foreground leads the viewer directly to the frozen Minerva Terrace, which is partially blocking the view of the darkly, tree covered hills…

Upper Fire Hole, from Old Faithful

Palace Butte Park, Gallatin Mountains, Montana Territory

A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)

Best known for his romantic representations of New England landscapes, Thomas Cole is considered the founder of the Hudson River School art movement.…

Mammoth Hot Springs, Pulpit Terraces

Lower Falls of the Yellowstone, from the Transparencies series (N137)

Between 18975 and the 1940s, cigarette companies embraced the trend of including collectible trading cards in the cigarette packs that they sold.…

The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin

The Proud Smoke, L&M Cigarettes Grand Canyon Ad

Unititled (Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii)

Death Valley, bakery card from the Nature's Splendor series (D39-7), issued by Bell Bakeries, Inc.

Going-to-the-Sun Road

Muir Glacier, Alaska

Bobcat perched at Badlands National Park

This photograph, posted on the National Park Service Instagram feed in February 2018, depicts a crouched bobcat with its hind legs atop a sign that…

Assateague's Wild Horses

What do you mean? I am relaxed!

Humpback Whales at Kenai Fjords National Park

Santa Monica Mountain Lion

This photograph, posted on the National Park Service instagram feed in February 2018, depicts the face of a mountain lion at a perhaps uncomfortably…

Arches National Park: Junior Ranger Adventure Guide

Nevada Falls, Yosemite

The Golden Gate and New Concrete Viaduct, costing $10,000, Yellowstone National Park

This photograph is just one of the many stereographs created as a mode of transporting a slightly more three-dimensional experience of the national…

Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers

The largest woodpecker in the United States, the American ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) has been referred to as the Lord God bird,…

Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Orange County, New York

Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park

1987 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

A More Enchanting Wonder Nature Never Knew, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.

Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern California

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscapes of the American West are well known and commonly…

1989 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

View of Skyline Drive and Mary's Rock, near Panorama, VA. from Shenandoah National Park, Souvenir Views Match Cover series

Mesa Verde Junior Ranger Guide

The idea for the Junior Ranger Program of the National Park Service (NPS) arose in 1930, 16 years after the creation of the NPS. Now, almost every…

Parque nacional de las Montañas Rocosas: Libreto oficial de actividades para guardabosques juveniles

1990 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

Untitled (Haleakala Crater with Clouds, Maui, HI)

Chris, Campground Ranger, Tuolumne Meadows Campground

Though passionate about the outdoors, photographer Michael Matthew Woodlee’s interest in national parks lies specifically in the people who inhabit…

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is one of the seminal works of the 1970s art movement known as Land Art. The artwork is a 1500’ manmade jetty that…

Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

1991 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

Fort Union, Mouth of the Yellowstone River, 2000 Miles above St. Louis

In 1832, George Catlin travelled up the Missouri River to Fort Union, situated on what is now the Montana-North Dakota border, before making various…

The Patriarchs, Zion National Park

1992 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

The New York Earth Room

Walter De Maria was associated with the 1970s Land Art movement. The New York Earth Room is made up 250 cubic yards of earth spread 22 inches deep…

1993 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

Giant Redwoods (no. 191)

1994 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

1995 National Parks Passport Stamp Set

Death Valley Sage (Salvia funerea)

Crystal Falls, Cascade Creek

This photograph was taken by Jackson during a Congressionally funded survey of the Yellowstone area, led by Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, a…

Annual Rings

Mountain Scene

A Line Made By Walking

This black-and-white image depicts an empty field of grass with a line of trees far off in the distance. In the foreground of the image is a man-made…

Shoshone Indians Rocky Mountains

About fifty years before Albert Bierstadt traveled through the Rocky Mountains in search of a pass for the Pacific Railroad, Lewis and Clark had…

The Rocks at Newport, Rhode Island

Night, or Return of the Fisherman

View of the Hudson River Near Tivoli

Ahwahnee Luncheon Menu: The High Sierra of Yosemite National Park

Ahwahnee Hotel Breakfast Menu: Riding in Yosemite

Ahwahnee Hotel Breakfast Menu: Winter in Yosemite

Ahwahnee Hotel Luncheon Menu: The Pageant of Summer

Ahwahnee Hotel Breakfast Menu: The Big Trees

Ahwahnee Hotel Luncheon Menu: Spring in Yosemite

Ahwahnee Hotel Dinner Menu: Glacier Point

Ahwahnee Hotel Dinner Menu: The Pageant of Summer

Ahwahnee Hotel Luncheon Menu: Riding in Yosemite

Ahwahnee Hotel Dinner Menu: The High Sierra of Yosemite National Park

Ahwahnee Hotel Breakfast Menu: Winter in Yosemite

Ahwahnee Hotel Dinner Menu: El Capitan - Sunrise

Ahwahnee Hotel Luncheon Menu: The Big Trees

Ahwahnee Hotel Dinner Menu: El Capitan - Sunrise

The Majestic Yosemite Hotel Dining Room Breakfast Menu

The Majestic Yosemite Hotel Dining Room Brunch Menu

The Majestic Yosemite Hotel Dining Room Lunch Menu

The Majestic Yosemite Hotel Dining Room Dinner Menu

Fairweather Dining Room Menu

Old Faithful Inn Dining Room Breakfast Menu

Old Faithful Inn Dining Room Lunch Menu

Old Faithful Inn Dining Room Dinner Menu

El Tovar Dining Room Dinner Menu

The Arizona Room Dinner Menu

Painted Desert Diner Menu

Jordan Pond House Dinner Menu

El Tovar Dining Room 1967

El Tovar Dining Room 1906

El Tovar Dining Room 1910-1920

Trapper Grill Lunch/Dinner Menu

Happy National Bison Day!

@grandtetonnps "Happy National Bison Day! This year it is even more exciting since in May of this year President Obama signed the National Bison…

Mama and baby bison

@grandtetonnps "Sometimes you get lucky enough to see and capture something truly beautiful in nature like this mama and baby bison. How adorable is…

Here is the Great North American Bison!

@grandtetonnps "Here is the Great North American Bison! Scientific name, Bison Bison; this is the largest land mammal in North America weighing in at…

A classic spring day

@Yellowstonenps "A classic spring day: snow squalls, raking sun, and animals on the move."

Even though most roads are closed

@yellowstonenps: "Even though most roads are closed to cars at the moment, these views are accessible year-round. Thanks to @parker_duncan for taking…

Yellowstone Pledge

@yellowstonenps: "The majority of the wildlife photos we get are taken from the road, in a car, and from a pullout. All of them are taken with big…

Lamar Buffalo Ranch

@yellowstonenps: "Lamar Valley #InstaMeet is next Friday, June 23 at 7:30 pm. Meet at the Lamar Buffalo Ranch as we meet new people, watch wildlife,…

S'mores!

@assateaguenps: "The nights are starting to get a little cooler and nothing makes a bonfire on Assateague more perfect than some tasty s'mores! Here…

Huckleberries!

@grandtetonnps: "Huckleberries! Throughout the park, specific plants are beginning to fruit, whether it be huckleberries, thimbleberries, or…

Muscadine Grapes

@assateaguenps: "hey look like the #fake plastic grapes in the bowl on the kitchen table at your granny's place, but these #grapes are the…

Sandbar Shark

@assateaguenps: "When casting your line into the ocean, you never know what's going to bite or when it's going to bite. For these guys, their first…

Pine Nuts

@zionnps: "The Southern Paiute knew the value of this little seed. Packed with protein and harvested in the autumn months, the pine nut helped the…

Yaupon Holly

@congareenps: "The leaves of the Yaupon holly were used to make a tea drink that was a part of Native American purification rituals. European…

Breakfast at Blackwood Campgrounds

@acadianps: "Megan Carvalho, of Little Compton, Rhode Island, shares this photo of cooking breakfast she posted on Sept 19. "My boyfriend and I camped…

Sequoia Kings Breakfast

@sequoiakingsnps: "The last day of the campground reservation season is tomorrow! All open campgrounds will first come, first serve with the exception…

Bisonheerde (Bison Herd)

Landscape with Herd of Buffalo

Buffalo

American Bison

Bison, from the "Teddy's Trophies" series

Indians Hunting the Bison

Big Sky salad

Larry Olmstead for USA Today: "One of the more bizarre bison dishes is the Big Sky salad, a large cobb-style salad topped with a buffalo burger…

Breakfast this morning

@assateaguenps: "Note to self - stay out of the campground in the morning when you are hungry! @alternativeaprons got creative with breakfast this…

Blueberries, blueberries

@acadianps: "Blueberries, blueberries
How we love blueberries
Love to pick and to eat little ones
First we hike up the trails
Then we pull out…

Ahwahnee Hotel Dinner Menu: Winter Sports in Yosemite

Official Map for Yosemite Valley

From Inspiration Point (E.N.E.) through Yosemite Valley-showing Bridal Veil Falls, Cal.

Cathedral Spires

Old Faithful in Action, Upper Geyser Basin, Nat. Park

Geysers, bakery card from the Nature's Splendor series (D39-7), issued by Bell Bakeries, Inc.

Inscription: Printed text on recto of card: GEYSERS
Printed text on verso of card: APPLY THE PASTE UP TO THE DOTTED LINE AND THEN PASTE/ IN THE/…

Grand Teton, bakery card from the Nature's Splendor series (D39-7), issued by Bell Bakeries, Inc.

Inscription: Printed text on recto of card: Grand Teton
Printed text on verso of card: APPLY THE PASTE UP TO THE DOTTED LINE AND THEN PASTE/ IN THE/…

Crater Lake, bakery card from the Nature's Splendor series (D39-7), issued by Bell Bakeries, Inc.

Inscription: Printed text on recto of card: Grand Teton
Printed text on verso of card: APPLY THE PASTE UP TO THE DOTTED LINE AND THEN PASTE/ IN THE/…

NPS Ranger Selfie, Repost from National Geographic

The Tetons, Yellowstone National Park. 5122

Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Valley

@yosemitenps: Yesterday, Yosemite Valley, one of the most popular tourist destinations on earth; was enveloped by fresh rain, alpine snowmelt, and a…

Early morning sunrise in Two Medicine

@glaciernps: Early morning sunrise in Two Medicine, captured by @ellen.delong. Happy Friday! #GlacierNPS

Tokyo

Two Trees

@redwoodnps: "I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we…

Alfred E. Heller collection of world's fair material, 1851-2005.

Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota

Denali National Park, Alaska

Park Week Post

From National Park Service: "As National Park Week comes to a close, we encourage you to make every week “Park Week!” Keep exploring amazing places,…

The Butcher's Work

Buffalo Nickel

Best General View

Bison Instagram Photo

1900 Ad Northern Pacific Railway Railroad Travel Yellowstone Park Eagles YSN2

This is an original 1900 black and white print ad from the Northern Pacific Railway for travel by railroad to Yellowstone Park.

1907 Northern Pacific Railway Yellowstone Advertisement

Eagle Instagram Photo

Curtis Soccer Field at Dusk

Smokey Bear Logo

Edgerton Park Tree Bloom

Edgerton Park Flower Bloom

Yale Farm in the Winter

Yogi Bear with Sign

Center of the West: "Yellowstone Park officials used Yogi's image to warn visitors against feeding bears. NPS photo by William S. Keller, 1961."

Bear Instagram Photo

Andersch Brothers Wolf Drawing

Flickr: "Image from page 75 of "Andersch bros. hunters and trappers guide illustrating the fur bearing animals of North America the skins of which…

Strike Down This Monster

North Carolina Digital Collections: "In the center of the image a man swings an axe at a fiery wolf in a forest to the left, to the right is an…

Yellowstone Wolf Photograph

A Hysterical Map of the Yellowstone Park with Apologies to the Park

David Rumsey: "Color pictorial map. Humorous pictorial map "hatched & scratched by Jolly Lindgren" featuring the highlights of a visit to the park:…

Bear Cubs Begging For Food

Center of the West: "Three black bear cubs get a smile from this car’s occupant in Yellowstone. NPS photo by R. Robinson, no date."

Visitors Gored by Bison

NPS: "Warning flyer from Yellowstone National Park."

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The rim of the canyon near artist’s point in Yellowstone National Park, 1933

Parking Lot at Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park, California

Photographing Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

#BisonSelfie

Extreme selfies at Grand Canyon South Rim

National Parks Service Logo

Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, in 1903

Grand Canyon Selfie

Bloomer Cut, near Auburn. 800 feet long and 63 feet high

Seeing America first with the Berry brothers

Cloud view, Donner Lake

Blackfeet Indian Sign

Glacier National Park Map

Chief Mountain Border Crossing

Going-to-the-Sun Highway Dedication

Chief Mountain Border Crossing

Chief Mountain Border Crossing

Chief Mountain Border Crossing

Chief Mountain Border Crossing

Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, August 13, 1979

Photographing Old Faithful Geyser

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Claire, chipmunk research intern 2013

Cover image of "National Parks: Our American Landscape"

Emmett Harryson, a Navajo, stands inside a "T"-shaped doorway at Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park, 1929

Junior Ranger Program: Gilaine Spoto leading program at Madison Junior Ranger Station

A man crossing Mexico–United States border over the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park to sell handcrafts and folk art

Big Bend National Park Map

Mexicains passant le Río Grande face au Big Bend National Park

Gfp-texas-big-bend-national-park-mexican-border-customs-station

Western edge of the park

Blackfeet in the Two Medicine area, ca 1914

Explore the wild

River trip

Let's hop on over to Mexico

Boquillas del Carmen

World Heritage Site, Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek

Wrangell-St. Elias backcountry

Pack train crossing the Russell Glacier in Skolai Pass

Kluane National Park and Reserve

Come explore

American Samoa Regional Map

Indigenous Peoples' Day

Park villagers

They might even show you how to weave a basket

Happy Manu'a Flag Day

Grizzly Giant, President Roosevelt and Party

Father and Son at Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota, 1999

Border Patrol agents in Texas’ Big Bend region have seen an increase in smuggling, attacks on agents and migrant deaths in recent years

Central Park

Storm King Wavefield

Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, in 1903

Double Negative

The Lightning Field

A Mountain Ramble

Three Men Standing in Front of Log Cabin at Camp for U.S. Geological Survey Team, Rocky Mountains

William Henry Jackson and Another Man with Photographic Equipment on Mountain near Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, 1871-1878

Work hard...nap hard.

Teamwork

Moose in bloom!

103 years young!

Stop and eat the flowers

The Last of the Buffalo

Old Faithful Inn

Corporate Logo on a Park Service Vehicle

NPS #FindYourPark Instagram Post

Conservation Classroom

Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite

Distant View of the Mandan Village

Yosemite Valley from the Best General View

Giant Redwood Trees of California

Termination Rock Certificate, September 22, 1830.

In a Piegan Lodge (before editing)

1934 National Parks Postage Stamps

In a Piegan Lodge (after editing)

National Parks Passport

Three Horses

Every Kid in a Park Pass

See America. Railroads of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and the Pullman Company

The Statue of Liberty

US Passport

Yellowstone on the Cancellation Plan: A National Parks Passport Breeds an Obsession

Frontier Town

Dolphin Encounter

Yellowstone National Park

National Parks Adventure

Yellowstone Falls

Longs Peak and Rocky Mountain National Park in the distance, Longmont, Colorado

Self-Portrait