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Yosemite Nature Notes 38 (1959)

First photograph taken in Yosemite Valley, by Charles L. Weed, in June 1859. The original photograph has since been lost, so only this half-tone from YNN survives (further information).

• YNN 38(1) (January 1959) [PDF]
  • Half Dome, 38(1):cover drawing by Ralph Frazier
  • “Out of Yosemite’s Past” [photo of 1st Sgt. Joseph Fernandez, 4th Cavalry, namesake of Fernandez pass, ca. 1895-1897], 38(1):1
  • “Dwarfs of the Plant World” [chinquapin, Castanopsis sempervirons, and green leaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita], 38(1):2-6 by Ralph Frazier
  • “The Jumping Mouse of Lyell Fork” [Western jumping mouse Zapus pacificus alleni], 38(1):6 by Lorraine Miles
  • “Some Impressions of a Mount Lyell Climb,” 38(1):7-8 by Lloyd Brubaker
  • “Babe out of the Woods” [fawn reunited with mother], 38(1):9-11 by Charles Vollmer
  • “Protective Instinct” [of mother mountain quail Oreortyx picta plumifera], 38(1):12-13 by Vick Williams
• YNN 38(2) (February 1959) [PDF]
  • Yosemite Falls in winter, 38(2):cover
  • Photo of Upper Hotel, later Hutchings House and Cedar Cottage, 38(2):15
  • “Presidential Visits to Yosemite,” part 1 [Warren G. Harding], 38(2):16-19 by Marvin R. Koller
  • “Manzanita—A Native Californian,” 38(2):20-24 by Robert W. Crippin
  • “Mountain and Forests Speak,” 38(2):24 poem by Alfred E. Brighton
  • “1958 Christmas Bird Count in Yosemite,” 38(2):25 by Walter J. and Erma Fitzpatrick
  • “Yosemite’s King Snakes,” 38(2):26 by John D. Cunningham
  • “Remember When?” [photo of El Capitan from Rockslides area of old Big Oak Flat Road], 38(2):27
• YNN 38(3) (March 1959) [PDF]
  • “Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Point” 38(3):cover photo by an Underwood & Underwood photographer
  • “Presidential Visits to Yosemite,” part 2 [Theodore Roosevelt], 38(3):29-34 by Marvin R. Koller
  • “Lightning at Glacier Point and Half Dome,” 38(3):35-38 by Lawrence P. Richards
  • “A Little Bit of Home in Yosemite” [wide distribution of plants and animals], 38(3):39-41 by John D. Cunningham
  • “Repose,” 38(3):41 poem by Alfred E. Brighton
• YNN 38(4) (April 1959) [PDF]
  • “Wapama Falls,” 38(4):cover photo by Ralph Anderson
  • “To Tueeulala and Wapama” [falls at Hetch Hetchy Valley], 38(4):43-46
  • “Presidential Visits to Yosemite,” part 3 [William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt], 38(4):47-49 by Marvin R. Koller
  • “Recent Observations of the Pine Marten in Yosemite,” 38(4):50-51 by John D. Cunningham
  • “A New Series of Historical Comparison Pictures” [in YNN], 38(4):52
  • “Yosemite’s First Bridge” [1859 rude bridge compared with 1918 Sentinel Bridge in 1958], 38(4):53-54
  • “Trees Change Slowly at High Altitudes” [1935 and 1957 photos of a lodgepole pine], 38(4):55 by Neva Snell and Frances Carter
• YNN 38(5) (May 1959)
  • “Guide to the Pioneer Cemetery,” 38(5):58-74 by Laurence V. Degnan and Richard R. Jackson [Henry Eddy, Frank Bockerman, William Bonney Atkinson, James Mason Hutchings, Agusta L. Hutchings, Effie Crippen, Laura Cannon, Thomas and Elizabeth Glynn, Agnes Armour Leidig, Albert May, James Chenowith Lamon, Galen Clark, George Fiske, Hazel Caroline Meyer, Rose and Gabriel Sovulewski, Leonidas G. “Dick” Whorton, John Hamilton, George Anderson, Mr. Wood, G. B. Cavagnaro, John C. Anderson (locust trees), Walter Coyle, Albert Baldwin Glasscock, James Morgan, Sadie Schaeffer, Forest S. Townsley, Ettienne Manet, Henry Woolcock, George Ezra Boston (murdered), Mr. McKenzie A. W. B. Madden, Kosano, Sally Ann Castagnetto, May Tom, May Dick, Indian Lucy Brown, Bill “Mono Tom” Brown, Lancisco Wilson, Johnny Brown, Pete Hilliard, Louisa Tom]
• YNN 38(6) (June 1959) [PDF]
  • “1859 — Yosemite’s First Photograph — 1959” [first photograph taken in Yosemite Valley of Yosemite Falls at 10:30 a.m. June 18, 1859], 38(6):cover photo by Charles L. Weed
  • photo of Eadweard Muybridge, 38(6):75
  • “Charles L. Weed, Yosemite’s First Photographer,” 38(6):76-87 by Mary V. Jessup Hood
• YNN 38(7) (July 1959) [PDF]
  • Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Glacier point, 38(7):cover photo by an Underwood & Underwood photographer, 1903
  • “John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt in Yosemite” [in 1903], 38(7):89-94,97 by William E. Colby
  • Stephen T. Mather quote with scenic photo, 38(7):95-96
  • “The California Buckeye,” 38(7):98-99 by Robert W. Crippin
  • “Flower Seccession in Meadows,” 38(7):99-101 by Glenn B. Coy
  • photos of Royal Arches from Merced River near Camp 7 in 1864 and 1957, 38(7):101
• YNN 38(8) (August 1959) [PDF]
  • One of the first interpretive walks in Yosemite in 1920, conducted by Dr. Loye H. Miller, 38(8):cover photo
  • “Behind the Interpreters,” 38(8):104-108,111 by Richard G. Beidleman (reprinted from Turtox News 37(7) (July 1959)
  • Quote with photo by Newton B. Drury, 38(8):109-110
  • “Slow Breakdown of Granite” [1933 and 1959 photos], 38(8):112 by Neva Snell
  • “The Mystery of Bird Migration,” 38(8):113-114 by Glenn B. Coy
  • “Conservation Quotes” 38(8):114 by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • photos in 1859 and 1959 of Glacier Point from Vernal Falls, 38(8):115
• YNN 38(9) (September 1959) [PDF]
  • Vernal Fall, 38(9):cover photo
  • “Children’s Day” [Junior Rangers in Tuolumne Meadows], 38(9):117-122 by Gerald Reckin
  • Quote with photo of Mt. Lyell Glacier by Arno B. Cammerer, 38(9):123-124
  • “A Nature Walk to the Top” [imaginary nature walk to Mt. Whitney from Whitney Portal], 38(9):125-128 by William E. Steinkraus
  • “And We Declare,” 38(9):128 poem by Alfred E. Brighton
• YNN 38(10) (October 1959) [PDF]
  • “Autumn in Yosemite Valley," 38(10):cover photo by Onas Ward
  • “Soda Springs" [in Tuolumne Meadows] 38(10):131-134 by Mary E. Whittenburg
  • “Digger Pines at 5200 Feet" [gray pine or foothill pine Pinus sabiniana], 38(10):135-136 by Jack F. Fry and Rolf W. Benseler
  • “Conservation Quotes," 38(10):136 quote by William Howard Taft
  • Quote with photo, 38(10):137-138 by Horace M. Albright
  • “A Cedar Grows Besides a Bridge" [Incense Cedar next to Upper Hotel and Sentinel Bridge from 1865 to 1958], 38(10):139-142
  • Ad for Big Oak Flat Road to Yosemite book, 38(10):143
• YNN 38(11) (November 1959) [PDF]
  • “North Dome," 38(11):cover photo
  • “A Tin Lizzie and Dirt Roads" [Tioga Road in 1922 and Yosemite Valley in 1916], 38(11):145-150 by LaRue C. Watson
  • “Conservation Quote," 38(11):150 quote by Richard Lieber
  • Quote with photo, 38(11):151-152 by Hillory A. Tolson
  • “Edible Wild Plants” [and use by California Indians] 38(11):153-156 by Glenn B. Coy
• YNN 38(12) (December 1959) [PDF]
  • Galen Clark at base of Grizzly Giant in 1858, 38(12):cover photo by Carleton E. Watkins
  • “Galen Clark’s Library,” 38(12):159-167 by Jim Fox
  • Quote, 38(12):161 by Conrad L. Wirth
  • “The Original Divebomber" [Goshawk Accipter gentilis], 38(12):168-169 by Chuck Vollmer
  • “Who is Buried in the Wawona Pioneer Cemetery?” [H. R. “Hank” Sargent, Nathan B. "ldquo;Pike” Phillips, Pvt. John L. Yates, Jim “Homer” Snedecker, John Hammond, William Van Campen, Thomas Bullock, Rochet], 38(12):170-171 by Jack F. Fry

¹ James Eason, Bancroft Library, gives this information about the lost first Yosemite photograph (11/2008):

Mary Hood states, (in YNN v.38, no. 6 (June 1958), the issue that reproduced the image,) that the photograph was found in the Vance Album at Stanford University, and was not present in the Rosenblatt album formerly at the Yosemite Museum. While, most unfortunately, it seems to be true that the photo is “now lost”, it was not lost from the Yosemite Museum collection, nor from The Bancroft Library which now holds the Rosenblatt album views.

Bibliographical Information

Yosemite Nature Notes 38 (1959) (Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1959). 24 cm. Ill. LCCN 54040211. Library of Congress call number QH1.Y6. U. S. Government Document Call Number: I 29.119

Digitized by Dan Anderson, April 2007, from a copy at San Diego State University Library.
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

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