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A Look at Mother Earth Primary Source Set

 

 

Nature:

Pile Hill

Pile Hill Stump Area "Man Beautifies Nature"

Buffalo grazing on a field in Palos Park, Illinois

Nature studies. Common day lily, double form.

[Magnolia-on-the-Ashley (i.e. Magnolia Gardens), nature's mirror, Charleston, S.C.].

Empire Valley, Colo.

Mountain(s):

[Cedar Mountain, Va. View of battlefield with the mountain in the distance].

Lulu Lake on Lookout Mountain. [Stereograph]

View on the top of Lookout Mountain, Tenn. [Stereograph]

Mountain scenes. View of mountain across valley.

Mountain scenes. Mountain reflected in water I.

Mountain scenes. Mountain reflected in water II.

Mountain scenes. Mountain reflected in water III.

Limpia - Wild Rose Pass

[Land and mountains in the direction of Colon seen from the Gatun office in Panama during the building of the Panama Canal].

Aerial Photo of Santa Rosa Mountains

Canadian scenes. Mountains in the clouds.

Falls of Minnehaha / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White.

Waterfall in the Catskills / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White.

Canadian scenes. Mountains reflected in lake at Jasper Park.

 

Meadows:

Truckee Meadows, toward Sierra Nevada Mountains

[Rolling meadows in Esopus, New York].

Pinus ponderosa on [the] trail up from Tuolumne [Meadows], Yosemite [National] Park, California

Mountain lake and meadows. La Plata County, Colorado. These high mountain meadows are utilized by sheepmen for summer grazing.

Arnold Arboretum, Meadows, Emerald Nec klace, Boston, MA

Trees & meadow

 

National Parks:

[Lake and forest at Starved Rock National Park near Ottawa, Illinois].

Buffalo at Wind Cave National Park, Black Hills, South Dakota, 1948.

Grand Canyon National Park, a free government service.

No. 2090. Giant Geyser Y[ellowstone].N[ational].P]ark.

Bryce Canyon National Park. View in Bryce Canyon National Park IV.

Bryce Canyon National Park. View in Bryce Canyon National Park I.

Sequoia National Park, California. Group of Sequoia gigantea trees at Round Meadow.

Red Canyon on Highway 12, close to Panguitch, Utah. Road with natural tunnel in Red Canyon I.

Lower falls, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White.

General view of Rocky Mountains west of Continental Divide seen from top of Logan Pass on Going-to-the-Sun highway. Glacier National Park, Montana.

Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, CA

Yosemite National Park, Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park, CA

Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls, reflected, Yosemite National Park, CA

Yosemite National Park, wildflowers, Yosemite National Park, CA

Great Smokey Mountain National Park, waterfall, taken before 1934, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, TN

Great Smokey Mountain National Park, the Chimney, taken before 1934, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, TN

Great Smokey Mountain National Park, pine trees, taken, before 1934, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, TN

Glacier National Park, Montana.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, Skyline Drive.

Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park.

Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County, Oregon. Annie Creek Canyon.

Formations at Bryce Canyon National Park. Garfield County, Utah.

Cut-over land in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Crater Lake.

 

Collections:

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920


Ecology and the American Environment

            Abies lasiocarpa [at] ten thousand feet, Loch Vale, Colorado

            Aletris farinosa, Illinois

            [A] relict clump of Tilia americana, Portchester, Indiana

            Tilia americana showing effect of environment, Dune Park, Indiana

            Kailua Bay, Oahu, Hawaii

            On the Ohio] opposite the mouth of the Kanawha River looking toward Point Pleasant, West Virginia

            Pellaea wrightiana, Cheilanthes, Selaginella, [and] Yucca [growing near a] rock face, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona


American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936

            [A] mesophytic ravine, Beverly Hills, Illinois

            Canyon [at] Deer Park, Illinois

            Rosettes of Oenothera, Chicago, Illinois

            [A] deciduous forest in summer, Columbia, Missouri

            Nelumbo lutea, McGregor, Iowa

            [The] north slope of loess hills, Iowa

            Loess bluffs along [the] Floyd River with trees on the northeast exposure, Sioux City, Iowa


Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida’s Natural History 1884-1934


Mapping the National Parks

 

Body of Water:

Rocky seashore [of the Pacific Ocean], Monterey, California

Postelsia on rocks [in the Pacific Ocean off] Point Lobos, California

Ocean waves. From side of boat, looking at large wave.

Ocean view

Atlantic hurricane tracking chart / NOAA. (map)

Carte de Grand Océan ou Mer du Sud. (map)

Indian Ocean area. (map)

Lake near Kearney, Nebraska.

Shelton Lake at Shelton, Buffalo County, Nebraska,

Kearney Lake.

Lake Tahoe, path and trees along lake, Lake Tahoe, CA

Sunset on Lake Michigan, Sawyer, Michigan

Evanston, Illinois

Clay bluffs [on the] Lake Michigan shore [with] North Chicago in the distance, Lake Bluff, Illinois

Potomac River. View of river and sun through branch with leaves.

[People in a canoe on the DesPlaines River near Forest Park, Illinois].

Islands in the Mississippi River, Savanna, Illinois

 

Desert:

40 Mile Desert ca. 1940

Death Valley Desert, landscape with donkeys, Mojave Desert, Mojave, CA

Desert valley

Desert scene

Bad Lands of Arizona / photo. by L.C. McClure, Denver.

 
 
 
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