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Portraits by Grant of Senior National Park Service officials and other notable individuals

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Mr. Conrad L. Wirth, Chief Planner, National Park Service Branch of Planning and State Cooperation with personnel from the State Parks Division, Emergency Conservation Work (E.C.W) more commonly known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Photograph by National Park Service photographer George A. Grant taken on the roof of the Bond Building, January 27, 1936 (Negative Number Wa. 51). Wirth is pictured in the front row, center without a hat and holding some papers; to his right is Herb Evison, Assistant for conservation in state parks, Branch of Planning and State Cooperation. On Wirth’s left is Lawrence C. Merriam, ECW District Director, West Coast Headquarters in San Francisco, and Herb Maier, ECW District Director, Rocky Mountain Headquarters in Denver.

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  • Yellowstone ranger staff at the dedication of the tablet in memory of Stephen Mather. Yellowstone National Park, 1932.
  • Members of the Sonora Missions Expedition. Left to Right: Robert Rose, George Grant, Leffler Miller, J. Howard Tovrea, Arthur Woodward, and Scofield DeLong. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • Senator Gerald Nye fishing in the Yellowstone River. Yellowstone National Park, 1933.
  • Standing in front of Mount Owen is Mr. William Owen, for whom the mountain is named. He was a well known Wyoming pioneer and early engineer and surveyor in the territory. In 1898, he and three others were the first to climb the Grand Teton or the American Matterhorn. Grand Teton National Park, 1933.
  • National Park Service headquarters staff. Names listed at bottom. Washington, D.C., 1932.
  • Pioneer landscape photographer William Henry Jackson photographed by George Grant in the NPS headquarters darkroom in 1935. Jackson was 93 years old.
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