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Yosemite National Park (Agency : U.S.)
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Yosemite National Park is located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California and managed by the U.S. National Park Service. It covers 747,956 acres. The park was central to the development of the Untied States national park idea. Galen Clark lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development and President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant in 1864. "Yosemite" (meaning "killer" in Miwok) originally referred to the name of a Native American tribe which was driven out of the area by the Mariposa Battalion.
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| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
|---|---|---|---|
| referencedIn | Central Files, 1915 - 1966 | National Archives at San Francisco | |
| referencedIn | Esther Smith scrapbooks of a bus tour of the American West, 1935 | University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Evermann (Barton Warren) papers, undated | California Academy of Sciences, Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Fascinating Yosemite | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Field Notebooks, 1929 - 1972 | National Archives at Denver | |
| referencedIn | Forever Wild: The Bears of Yosemite | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Glimpses of Our National Parks | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Horace Albright's 1931 Congressional Trip to Western Parks | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Lee-Mee Indian Ceremony | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Mono Lake Committee Collection, 1919-1997, (bulk 1977-1995) | Water Resources Collections and Archives |
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| Relation | Name |
|---|---|
| correspondedWith | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 |
| correspondedWith | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 |
| associatedWith | Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932 |
| associatedWith | Mono Lake Committee |
| associatedWith | Powell, William Aden. |
| associatedWith | Russell, Carl Parcher, 1894-1967. |
| associatedWith | Smith, Esther |
| associatedWith | Smith, Esther. |
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Establishment 1890-10-01
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Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Yosemite National Park
United States. National Park Service. Yosemite National Park
Parc national de Yosemite
Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite National Park (Agency : U.S.)
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