Still pictures, 1871-1965 (17,298 items), include photographs, some made as early as 1860, of tourists, park officials, scenery and activities in national parks in the United States and Hawaii, and national monuments; of scenic areas in parks including Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, National Capital, and Colonial National Historical Park; illustrating the history, geology, botany, and physcial features of Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; engineering projects in several national parks, at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Washington Monuments, Executive Office Building, North Interior Building, Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, and other areas in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia; documenting the work of CCC, WPA, and NYA workers in museum development programs; of the W. H. Tiption collection of Civil War photographs relating to the Battle of Gettysburg and the development of the battleground, city, and surrounding area; of Civil War sites in northern Virginia and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1863-94; and those accumulated by or made for the Civil War Centennial Commission, 1957-65. There are also photographs collected by the U.S. Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Marshall, 1955, including photographs of Supreme Court Justices and exteriors and interiors of buildings used by the Court; photographs of the San Francisco Exposition, 1939-40, and of park areas in the Congo and Spain. The records include "Alberttypes" of the Hayden Geological Survey of the Territories, 1871-72. Motion pictures, 1930-37 (15 reels), of Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, parks in Georgia and Washington, and Camp Roosevelt. Sound recordings, 1932-51 (17 items), of the memorial service in honor of Stephen T. Mather at the Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 1932; the dedication of Mammoth Cave National Park, 1946; the dedication of the equestrian statues at the Arlington Memorial Bridge, Washington, D.C., 1951; and a speech of Newton B. Drury to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1947.
