Download or read book Historic Yosemite Postcard Book written by Yosemite Association Staff and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially selected from the extensive collection of the Yosemite Museum, these twenty full-color postcards are exact reproductions of vintage Yosemite views from the original cards. They represent a variety of historic locations, activities, and individuals from the park's fascinating past. The varied images are printed on sturdy white card stock, and their backs are divided with plenty of room for messages to friends or family members and mailing addresses. The book can be used to stay in touch, to share Yosemite's history, or to step back in time for a glimpse of earlier days in the park. Among the subjects of the cards are the Fire Fall, Arch Rock, Yosemite Lodge, the Yosemite Valley Railroad, Overhanging Rock, the Mariposa Grove, and Camp Curry. There also are images of Native American residents, as well as views of waterfalls and major landmarks. This is a nice collection of Yosemite nostalgia with historical authenticity.
Download or read book Yosemite s Historic Hotels and Camps written by Alice Van Ommeren and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yosemite National Park is a place of extraordinary natural beauty with renowned waterfalls, spectacular granite rock formations, and serene meadows. Although indigenous peoples already inhabited Yosemite, settlers of European descent found their way there beginning in 1851. To serve the steady growth of tourists and visitors, lodging and accommodations have always been central to the park's history. The popularity of postcards starting in the early 1900s and lasting several decades coincided with the growth of the park's hotels and camps, transportation, and entertainment. This book of vintage postcards illustrates and chronicles those places and events. It provides visitors with an understanding and appreciation for the unique and diverse places made available to tourists throughout Yosemite's history.
Download or read book Yosemite National Park in Vintage Postcards written by Tammy Lau and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mere utterance of the word aYosemitea conjures up images of Half Dome, El Capitan, giant sequoias, and the unmatched beauty this northern California park has to offer. However, the area known today as Yosemite has not always been a place of tranquility. Once the home of Ahwahnee tribe, these Native Americans were forced to surrender their home to armed miners rushing for gold and a California government clutching the philosophy of Manifest Destiny.
Download or read book Yosemite s Historic Hotels and Camps written by Alice van Ommeren and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yosemite National Park is a place of extraordinary natural beauty with renowned waterfalls, spectacular granite rock formations, and serene meadows. Although indigenous peoples already inhabited Yosemite, settlers of European descent found their way there beginning in 1851. To serve the steady growth of tourists and visitors, lodging and accommodations have always been central to the parks history. The popularity of postcards starting in the early 1900s and lasting several decades coincided with the growth of the parks hotels and camps, transportation, and entertainment. This book of vintage postcards illustrates and chronicles those places and events. It provides visitors with an understanding and appreciation for the unique and diverse places made available to tourists throughout Yosemites history.
Download or read book Around Rocky Mountain National Park written by Suzanne Silverthorn and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915, promotional campaigns generated by the railroads lured wealthy travelers to the park with images of the great outdoors and the many luxuries offered by the finest hotels. Postcards were circulated proclaiming the park as the "Playground of the World." The gateway communities of Estes Park and Grand Lake became vibrant hospitality centers, and in 1920, when the two towns were connected with the opening of Fall River Road, a new era of tourism was introduced that continues today. More than 200 postcards are used in this book to provide a chronology of the early hotels, ranches, and other settings that have shaped the park's history for more than a century.
Download or read book The Yosemite Postcard Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are fifteen extraordinary views from all regions of Yosemite, reproduced in full-color. These dramatic images can be used individually as postcards, or kept together as a souvenir of a visit to the park. These are truly memorable photographs of Yosemite's unforgettable scenery.
Download or read book The Sierra Club Yosemite Postcard Collection written by Galen A. Rowell and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sierra Club Yosemite Postcard Collection, a companion to Galen Rowell's spectacular photographic interpretation of John Muir's The Yosemite, presents a stunning portfolio celebrating the centennial of one of America's most beautiful and majestic national parks. Here, in the Sierra Club tradition of excellence in nature photography, are 22 striking full-color images that can be used as ready-to-mail postcards.
Download or read book Postcards from the Baja California Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.
Download or read book Yosemite National Park Adult Coloring Book written by and published by WW West, an imprint of Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical coloring journey through Yosemite with 44 marvelous illustrations. Color Yosemite Falls, Half Dome, black bears, the Nevada red fox, Yosemite flowers, and The Majestic Yosemite Hotel (formerly The Ahwahnee Hotel). 8 postcards and 4 bookmarks on extra-heavy perforated paper to share with family and friends are included.
Download or read book Postcard History of the Early Santa Fe Railway written by Don Harmon and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yosemite National Park written by Ansel Adams and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yosemite National Park's stunning vistas helped to shape Ansel Adams' artistic vision, beginning with his first visit to the park aged 14 and continuing throughout his six-decade career. This collection reproduces 30 of Adams' best-known photographs of the park in postcard form.
Download or read book Post Cards from Montana written by Farcountry Press and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy these historic scenes of Montana in the early twentieth century, from Glacier National Park to cowboys riding the eastern prairies to historic downtown images. 23 cards, reproduced from vintage postcards from the early 1900s. Enjoy as a book, or remove cards along the perforation and mail!
Download or read book Obata s Yosemite written by Chiura Obata and published by Yosemite Conservancy. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 80 full-color reproductions of Obata's pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, and day-by-day narratives woven through his correspondences.
Download or read book Stockton in Vintage Postcards written by Alice Van Ommeren and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's Stockton is a modern California city, home to a quarter of a million people. But few remember the details of its illustrious past. Influenced by strategic waterways and rich soil, Stockton attracted a succession of miners, farmers, shipbuilders, and industrial entrepreneurs. Throughout the years Stockton has evolved from a rough-and-tumble harbor town to an agricultural, business, and transportation center and has done so with a great amount of style and finesse. This collection of vintage postcards showcases Stockton's early days from 1900 to 1950, capturing the elegance and industry of a young city on the journey to the modern era. This book contains over 200 images of Stockton including the waterfront, paddlewheel steamers, beautiful hotels, graceful estates, sprawling farm vistas, and the ornate buildings of downtown.
Download or read book Yellowstone National Park Adult Coloring Book written by and published by W.W. West, an imprint of Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Look up and down and round about you! A thousand Yellowstone Wonders are calling." -John Muir. America's first national park is truly nature's wonderland. Award-winning illustrator Dave Ember has captured the beauty and majesty of Yellowstone in intricate, mystical coloring designs of geysers, hot springs, and wildlife. Artists will love adding their imaginative touch to Old Faithful Geyser, Morning Glory Pool, trumpeter swans, Tower Fall, wolves, and the iconic bison. The book includes interpretive text and extra-heavy, perforated paper for coloring eight postcards and four bookmarks to share with family and friends.
Download or read book Postcards from the Chihuahua Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
Download or read book Nature Guide to Yosemite National Park written by Ann Simpson and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Yosemite National Park is an information-packed, pocket-sized book that introduces park visitors to the animals, plants, insects and more that reside in Yosemite National Park in a colorful and portable package. Published in cooperation with Yosemite National Park Association, this Nature Guide to Yosemite National Park contains full-color photos and easy-to-understand descriptions. Here is the perfect companion guide for the 4 million visitors who travel to Yosemite National Park every year.
