Correspondence relating to Sequoia, Yosemite, and King's Canyon National Parks, California ; Glacier National Park, Montana ; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and related topics. 1913-1914, 1916, 1935-1938, 1940.

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Correspondence relating to Sequoia, Yosemite, and King's Canyon National Parks, California ; Glacier National Park, Montana ; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and related topics. 1913-1914, 1916, 1935-1938, 1940.

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NO-7457. Folder #1 - Carbon copybook for 1913-1914, 1916. Letters regarding work at Yosemite and Mt. Rainier; glaciation studies; folder #2 - Letters for 1935, regarding work at Sequoia and Yosemite; folder #3 - Letters for 1935-1936, regarding work at Yosemite and Sequoia; folder #4 - Letters for 1937, concerning work at Yosemite, geologic photo albums for Sequoia, proposed glaciation exhibit at Rocky Mountain National Park. NO-9458. Folder #1 - letters for 1938, regarding exhibits and trail guides at Yosemite, work in San Joaquin Basin and at Sequoia, plus information on Yosemite School of Field Natural History; folder #2 - Letters for 1940, regarding glaciation studies, geologic work in Sequoia, King's Canyon, and Yosemite. Correspondents include: C.A. Harwell, Park Naturalist at Yosemite; C.G. Thomson and Lawrence C. Merriam, Superintendents at Yosemite; Frank Been, Park Naturalist at Sequoia; Earl Trager, Chief, Naturalist Division, National Park Service; John R. White, Superintendent at Sequoia; John C. Merriam, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; W.C. Alden, G.F. Loughlin, W.C. Mendenhall, and other colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey.

2 expandable envelopes.

U.S. Geological Survey Library, Denver, USGS Denver

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U.S. Geological Survey Library, Denver, USGS Denver

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