The holdings of the National Archives Still Picture Branch
include 226 photographs taken for this project, most of them
signed and captioned by Adams. They were taken at the Grand
Canyon, Grand Teton, Kings Canyon, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain,
Yellowstone, Yosemite, Carlsbad Caverns, Glacier, and Zion
National Parks; Death Valley, Saguaro, and Canyon de Chelly
National Monuments. Other pictures were taken at Boulder Dam, CO;
Acoma Pueblo, NM; San Idelfonso, NM; Taos Pueblo, NM; Tuba City,
AZ; Walpi, AZ; and Owens Valley, CA. Many of the latter locations
show Navajo and Pueblo Indians, their homes and activities.
The Kings Canyon photographs were taken in 1936 when the
establishment of the park was being proposed. These prints were
added by Adams to the mural project. The one photograph of
Yosemite was a gift from Adams to the head of the Park Service,
Horace Albright, in 1933.
clipped from: www.archives.gov 
