Women in National Parks

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• Four mountaineers, two women and two men, on the Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, ca. 1925.
  The climbers have alpenstocks, ropes and ice axes. Text on verso of image: "The Nisqually Glacier, flowing slowly down the mountainside, forms one of the principal attractions to visitors in Rainier National Park. Daily trips are made by the guides to this location."
• Citizen Science Coordinator
  Citizen Science Coordinator, Caitlin Kenney, a Student Conservation Association (SCA) intern, poses with an amphibian in the backcountry (Golden Lakes) of Mount Rainier National Park.
• Archaeologist
  Park archaeologist, Emma, sifts through soil at Ohanapecosh Campground.
• Trail Crew
  Trail work at Paradise.
• NPS employee leading children on a tour in Joshua Tree National Park.
• 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.