The 1918 Pandemic in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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• Cascades Butterfly Project
• Minerva Hamilton Hoyt (1866-1945) Portrait
  South Pasadenan Minerva Hamilton Hoyt (1866-1945) was passionate about the deserts of the Southwest. Her tireless desert conservation efforts led to the establishment of Joshua Tree National Park.
• NPS Employees leading a group of kids in Joshua Tree National Park.
• Ranger with children on the beach at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
• Margaret Brooks, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, introducing some young visitors to the flora while on a nature hike.
• NPS Service Rangers conduct a tour of the main cell block on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
• NPS employee dressed up in period clothing in Muir House in John Muir National Historic Site.
• Pillars in Joaquin Miller's Chapel. Oregon Caves National Monument.
• People posing in front of a tree in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
• Visitors sitting and standing around a cross section of a big tree trunk listening to a NPS employee talk in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
• NPS employee, Joyce Kelso, leading a snowshoe walk through Giant Forest in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
• Clare Hodges in riding clothes and hat, sitting on small table and holding a quirt in her hands.
  Temporary Ranger Clare Hodges posed in her "ranger clothes." Studio photo probably taken for a 1919 "Sunset Magazine" feature about her. She wears a "ride stride" split skirt, long-sleeve blouse, kerchief around her neck, gauntlets (gloves) on her hands, and a floppy brimmed hat.
• Indian Lore Program with Selena LaMarr
  Selena Lamarr demonstrating basket weaving and use outside the Loomis Museum. Selena LaMarr, whose given name was Boonookoo-eemenorra, was a member of the Astugewi tribe. She became the first woman naturalist at Lassen Volcanic National Park and for twenty years, she wore her Astugewi tribal dress and educated listeners about the practices of her tribe ("Selena La Marr", NPS.gov).
• Alaska Native woman demonstrates subsistence salmon harvesting.
  An Alaska Native woman filets salmon as part of a demonstration of traditional subsistence practices in Denali National Park.
• Estella Loomis in front of Art Store
  Estella Loomis and girl sitting in front of Loomis art store at Manzanita Lake. On back of print: Mrs. Estella Loomis in front of the "Ant Store" Manzanita Lake. Estella Loomis was an early supporter of the effort to turn Lassen Volcano into a national park after her husband's photos of the land garnered national attention. She and her husband ran a hotel near Lassen, constructed the park's museum, and eventually donated their land to the park where they established an art studio and store ("Estella Loomis", NPS.gov).
• Josephine Barton preparing dinner in the Butte Lake ranger station.
• NPS ranger holding a puppy.
  A female park ranger holds a puppy for NPS Director William J. Whalen to pet, likely in Denali National Park. Denali has a long-running sled dog kennel program.
• Woman in NPS uniform and broad-brimmed hat walking up a dirt trail on the side of a mountain.
  NPS employee leading a tour in Olympic National Park.
• Mrs. Faun Dene Cummings and her daughter, Miss Barbara Cummings
  Miss Barbara Cummings is employed as a seasonal park guide by the NPS, and her mother, Mrs. Faun Dene Cummings, is an Information Receptionist for the U.S. Forest Service. Many visitors photographed the mother-daughter combination.
• Eastern entrance to Crater Lake National Park
  No longer an entrance to the park.
• He leadeth me beside the still waters, Your friend, Elvira Hutchings. Copied from the autograph books of Dorothy & Nellie Atkinson.
  Painting by Elvira Hutchings, wife of James Hutchings. The Hutchings owned and operated one of the earliest hotels to welcome and guide tourists through Yosemite. In addition to running the day-to-day operations of the hotel, Elvira studied painting, music, and botany. ("Hutchings," NPS.gov)
• Water color in the autograph book of Dorothy & Nellie Atkinson done by Elvira Hutchings. Copied from the autograph book of Dorothy & Nellie Atkinson.
  Painting by Elvira Hutchings, wife of James Hutchings. The Hutchings owned and operated one of the earliest hotels to welcome and guide tourists through Yosemite. In addition to running the day-to-day operations of the hotel, Elvira studied painting, music, and botany. ("Hutchings," NPS.gov)
• Resolution by the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs Against the Raker Bill, November 25, 1913; Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled
  With this resolution, the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs urged Congress to defeat the Raker Bill, a bill to grant San Francisco the right to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley. In 1913, women's clubs from across the country voiced their desire to protect nature and build a stronger National Park system for the sake of both moral and physical health. The Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs here argued that both women and men found health and inspiration in the beauty of the Valley. Although not using strict preservationist arguments, the Federation stressed that with more hotels and better transportation, the Valley could be enjoyed by more citizens. According to their resolution, San Francisco had no need to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley and its damming would be an irrevocable sacrifice by the whole nation.
• Resolution from the Graffort Club of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Against Granting San Francisco the Hetch Hetchy Valley, February 4, 1910; Committee on the Conservation of Natural Resources; Petitions and Memorials
  When Congress first began debating whether to grant San Francisco the Hetch Hetchy Valley in December 1908, women’s clubs provided some of the strongest opposition. Tied to women’s larger effort to extend their traditional “housekeeping” role into the public sector, resolutions like this one from the Graffort Women’s Club of Portsmouth argued that the Hetch Hetchy Valley belonged to all people as a public playground. The General Federation of Women’s Clubs drafted the language for this petition, and dozens of affiliated clubs submitted their own versions.
• Petition from the Hypatia Women's Club of San Francisco Supporting Granting San Francisco Water Rights to Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy, February 2, 1910; Committee on the Conservation of Natural Resources Petitions and Memorials
  While many women's clubs wrote to Congress asking for the preservation of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, women's club from San Francisco tended to support the idea of building a dam in the Valley. In their petition, the Hypatia Women's Club of San Francisco stressed that the Hetch Hetchy Valley provided the only source of pure and safe drinking water for San Francisco. They questioned the desire of preservationists to sacrifice the needs of people to preserve every tree.