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This album of bound photographic prints commemorates the Mather Mountain Party of 1915, organized and led by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Stephen T. Mather. Part of Mather's campaign to create support for a system of national parks, the trip brought together a select group from government, publishing, and industry. The group traveled eastward from Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park to the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the Sierra Nevada. Along the way, the group experienced the exceptional landscapes which Mather foresaw as part of a National Park System. The following year, the National Park Service was established with Stephen Mather its first director.

The album's leather cover is stamped with a title, "Sequoia Park and the High Sierra," and the name of the photographer, Mark Daniels. A participant in the trip, Daniels was a prominent California landscape architect who, from 1914 to 1915, served as assistant to Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane and as chief landscape engineer for the national parks. Daniels is remembered as the initial proponent of the "park village" concept, where visitors could find lodging and services in a centralized location. Daniels developed village plans for Sequoia, Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, and Glacier.

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  • Title: Album Album Cover
  • Contributor: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park
  • Park Website: Park Website
  • National Park Service Catalog Number: SEKI 10344

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