Touring Yosemite
September 1 - December 22, 2012
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
of The Claremont Colleges
Touring Yosemite
Discovering Yosemite
Ernest Seyd, California and its resources. A work for the
merchant, the capitalist, and the emigrant. London: Truber
and Co., 1858. On loan; for Special Collections copy see:
917.94 Se94.
George W. Pine, Two wonders of the world. Yo-semite,
mammoth trees, and bird’s eye view of California. New York:
Herkimer, 1873. On loan.
James Mason Hutchings (compiler), The Yo-Semite
almanac adapted to California, Nevada, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana and Utah, 1867.... [San
Francisco: Alta California General Printing House], Entered
according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866.... On loan.
Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, Discovery of the Yosemite,
and the Indian War of 1851, which led to that event. Chicago:
Fleming H. Revell, [1880]. On loan; for Special Collections copy
see: 979.447 B884 New York, c1892.
John Erastus Lester, The Yo-Semite its history, its scenery,
its development. Providence: Printed for the author, 1873. On
loan; for Special Collections copy see: 917.9447 L567.
James Mason Hutchings, The Yo Semite Valley, High
Sierra, big trees, etc. What they are, where they are, how to
see them, things convenient to have, routes to take, cost of
the trip, etc. San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job
Printing Establishment, 1875. On loan; for Special Collections
copy see: 917.9447 H97 San Francisco, [1877].
Zenas Leonard, Narrative of the adventures of Zenas
Leonard, a native of Clearfield County, Pa. who spent five
years in trapping for furs, trading with the Indians, &c., &c.,
of the Rocky Mountains: Written by Himself. (Clearfield: The
Raftman’s Journal, 1908). On loan; for Special Collections copy
see: F 592 L553 Norman, Okla, 1959 reprint.
Traveling to Yosemite
Yosemite Stage And Turnpike Company, Yosemite Valley
Wawona route via Mariposa Big Trees, Inspiration Point
and Glacier Point. The season opens April first.... San
Francisco: Press of H. S. Crocker Co., n.d. [circa 1900]. On loan.
James Mason Hutchings, In the heart of the Sierras. The Yo
Semite Valley, both historical and descriptive: And scenes
by the way. Big tree groves. The High Sierra, with its
magnificent scenery, ancient and modern glaciers, and
other objects of interest with tables of distances and
altitudes, maps, etc.... Yo Semite Valley: Published at the Old
Cabin. Oakland, Cal.: Pacific Press Publishing House, 1886. On
loan; for Special Collections copy see: 917.94 H97i 1886.
Robert P. and Alice B. Jennings, Diary and photo album,
1904. Jennings Yosemite Collection, H.Mss.0440, Special
Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
Seeing Yosemite
D. J. Foley & S. J. Harris, Yosemite Tourist. Vol. 1, no. 1.
Issued Thursday, May 23, 1889. On loan.
Galen Clark. Tourist Coach, business card. On loan
L. Bancroft & Company, Bancroft’s tourist’s guide.
Yosemite, San Francisco and around the Bay, (south). San
Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1871. On loan; for Special
Collections copy see: 917.9447 B221.
Illustrated London News, “The Yohamite Falls, California.”
March 26, 1859. On loan.
Norman W. Griswold, Beauties of California…Including big
trees, Yosemite Valley, geysers, Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake,
S. F. ‘49 & ‘83., etc..... San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co.,
1883. On loan; for Special Collections copy see: 917.94 G889
1884 edition.
Samuel Kneeland, The wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and
of California. Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871. On loan; for
Special Collections copy see: 917.94 K733.
George G. Mackenzie, Yosemite: Where to go and what to
do. A plain guide to the Yosemite Valley, the High Sierra
and the big trees.... San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1888.
On loan.
James Mason Hutchings, Hutchings’ tourist’s guide to the
Yo Semite Valley and the big tree groves for the spring and
summer of 1877. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. [1877.] On
loan: for Special Collections copy see: 917.9447 H97.
Sam Miller, Immense reduction to Yosemite! For sixty days
only. Benj. Dore, printer. Circa 1878. On loan.
The Grizzly Giant, engraving based on a photograph, circa
1892, by Isaac W. Taber of San Francisco. On loan.
Coulterville and Yosemite Turnpike Company, Stock
E. S. Denison, E. S. Denison’s Yosemite views. [San
Francisco: Lith. H. S. Crocker & Co.], n.d. [ca. 1880–1881]. On
loan.
certificate. 1871. On loan.
Harper’s Weekly, “On the way to the Yosemite Valley. From
a sketch by Paul Frenzeny.” November. 30, 1878. On loan.
Hetch Hetchy, photograph, circa 1888. On loan.
James Mason Hutchings, Hutchings’ panoramic scenes in
California...The Yo-Hamite Falls. On loan.
California. State Geologist (Josiah Dwight Whitney), ...The
Yosemite guide-book: A description of the Yosemite Valley
and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big
trees of California, illustrated by maps and woodcuts.
[Sacramento]: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1869.
On loan; for Special Collections copy see: F 868 Y6 C23
Cambridge, Mass., 1870.
Cosmopolitan Bath House, The “Cosmopolitan” Bath
House for ladies and gentlemen. Hot and cold baths.... N.p.,
n.d. On loan.
James Mason Hutchings, Souvenir of California. Yo Semite
Valley and the big trees. What to see and how to see it. San
Francisco: Published by J. M. Hutchings, [1894]. On loan.
George Fiske, “534. Big-Tree Room, Barnard’s Hotel,
Yosemite”, photograph, 1884. On loan.
Edward Vischer, Thomas Hill, undated. Edward Vischer
Papers, H.Mss.0921, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd
Library.
Snow’s Cottage, “#288 Snow’s Cottage and Nevada Fall,
Yosemite, Cal”, stereoview. Views of American Scenery, J. J.
Albert Bierstadt, A Halt in Yosemite Valley. Etching, circa
1880. On loan.
Martin Mason Hazeltine,“#1072. Hutching's Hotel and
Sentinel Rock. -- Yo Semite Valley”, stereoview, circa 1870.
T. Palmer and Lewis F. Reed, Unidentified Yosemite
photograph, circa 1900s. T. Palmer and Lewis F. Reed
Photographs of California and the West, H19xx.37, Special
Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
Fishing limit sign, undated. Fred Felsch collection,
H.Mss.0305, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
California. State Geologist (Josiah Dwight Whitney), ...The
Yosemite book a description of the Yosemite Valley and the
adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of
California, illustrated by maps and photographs. New York:
Julius Bien, 1868. On loan; for Special Collections copy see:
917.9447 C128 1868.
Cora A. Morse, Yosemite as I saw it. Oakland, Cal.: Published
by “The Outlook,” 1896. On loan.
Reilly, Marysville, Cal. On loan.
Martin Mason Hazeltine stereoview collection, H.Mss.0994,
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
Joseph N. LeConte, A Yosemite camping trip 1889. Berkeley,
Calif. : Published by Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1990 (San
Francisco, Calif. : Arion Press). Special Collections, Honnold/
Mudd Library F868.Y6 L43 1990x.
A Visitor, The praise of Camp Ahwahnee. [S.l. : s.n., 196-?].
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library GV194.C22C36
1960z.
George Holbrook Baker (1827-1906), “South Dome, Liberty
Cap & Nevada Fall, Yosemite.” Circa 1875. On loan.
Reflecting on Yosemite: Photography
Lyman family at Yosemite, photograph, undated. Edward
Charles Leander Weed, “The Yo-Semite Fall. 2500 feet
high”, stereoview. California, No. 2, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.,
Dean Lyman papers, H.Mss.1012, Special Collections, Honnold/
Mudd Library.
Martin Mason Hazeltine,“#1248. Mirror Lake and Mt.
Watkins”, stereoview, circa 1870. Martin Mason Hazeltine
stereoview collection, H.Mss.0994, Special Collections, Honnold/
Mudd Library.
Staying at Yosemite
Charles Dorman Robinson, The Wawona Hotel. An
illustrated sketch of the sights and scenes around the
Mariposa Big Trees Station. N.p., n.d. [San Francisco? 1882?].
On loan.
Leidig’s Hotel,“#117. Leydig’s [sic] Hotel”, stereoview.
Glories of the Yosemite, California, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.,
N. Y. On loan.
Leidig’s Hotel, Leidig’s Hotel, Yo Semite Valley. Always
open and no pains spared to accommodate and please. Mrs.
G. F. Leidig, Proprietress.... S[an] F[rancisco]: Lith Crocker &
Co., n.d. On loan.
N.Y. On loan.
George Fiske, “#585. Bridal Veil Fall. 900 Ft.”, photograph,
1884. Haskett Family photograph collection, H1995.3, Special
Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
Martin Mason Hazeltine, “#1165. Mt. Watkins, from South
Dome; Mt. Hoffman in distance, perpetual snow in
foreground” , stereoview, circa 1870. Martin Mason Hazeltine
stereoview collection, H.Mss.0994, Special Collections, Honnold/
Mudd Library.
John Shertzer Hittell, Yosemite: Its wonders and its
beauties. With information adapted to the wants of tourists
about to visit the valley. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft &
Company, 1868. On loan.
Carleton Eugene Watkins, “From the ‘Best general View,’
Mariposa Trail, #1134”, stereoview, circa 1867. Watkins’
Pacific Coast. On loan.
Charles Leander Weed, “Mariposa Trail”, sterewview, circa
1866. California. On loan.
Reflecting on Yosemite: Fiction
Reflecting on Yosemite: John Muir
Wallace Bruce, The Yosemite. Boston, Mass.: Published by
Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. On
loan.
John Muir, The mountains of California. New York: The
Century Co., 1894. On loan; for Special Collections copy see:
F 866 M96X.
Thérèse Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore, Zanita, a tale of
the Yo-semite. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872. Special
Fred Payne Clatworthy, photographer, “John Burroughs
and John Muir on the trail to Nevada Falls in Yosemite,”
Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library 813 L868z.
photograph, undated. On loan.
[Thomas Houseworth], Florence (“Floy”) Hutchings at the
age of ten, circa 1873. Photograph. San Francisco. On loan.
John Muir, The Yosemite. New York: The Century Co., 1912.
On loan; for Special Collections copy see: 917.9447 M896.
T. Granfield, Thérèse Yelverton, circa 1860. Photograph by T.
Granfield, Dublin, Ireland. On loan.
John Muir, Let All the People Speak and Prevent the
Destruction of the Yosemite Park. San Francisco, Cal., 1908.
On loan.
Dioclesian Lewis, Gypsies or why we went gypsying in the
Sierras. Boston: Eastern Book Company, 1881. On loan; for
Special Collections copy see: 917.94 L585.
William John Gordon, Under the avalanche. A tale of the
Sierra Nevada. London and New York: Frederick Warne and
Co., 1886. On loan.
Louise Carnahan, Polly’s Lion: A California Story for
Children. On loan.
John Muir, “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National
Park”, The Century Magazine, Vol. XL, September 1890, No.
5, pgs 656-667. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
Wall Display
James Mason Hutchings, Mammoth California holiday
pictorial for Christmas and New Years. San Francisco:
Published by Hutchings and Rosenfield, n.d. [1857]. On loan.
Reflecting on Yosemite: Travels
James Monroe Buckley, Two weeks in the Yosemite and
vicinity. New York: Nelson & Phillips. Cincinnati: Hitchcock &
Walden, [1873]. On loan.
Joseph LeConte, A journal of ramblings through the High
James Mason Hutchings, The California pictorial for 1860.
Published by Hutchings & Rosenfield, 146 Montgomery Street,
San Francisco. On loan.
Carleton Watkins], [North Dome], mammoth photographic
print, circa 1862. On loan.
San Francisco: Francis & Valentine, 1875. On loan; for Special
Collections copy see: F 868 S5 L46 Sierra Club 1930 reprint.
Sierras of California by the “University Excursion Party.”
John Ross Key (1832-1920), Nevada Fall, Yosemite Valley
[California]. Published by L. Prang & Co. (active 1868, circa
1873). On loan.
William Hammond Hall, To preserve from defacement and
promote the use of the Yosemite Valley. Sacramento: State
[George Holbrook Baker, Yosemite Fall, 2,631 Feet High.
[Not before 1862], lithograph. On loan.
[Alice I. Van Schaack], A familiar letter from a daughter to
Charles H. Crosby & Co., Chromolithograph of Yosemite
Valley. Boston: circa1870. On loan.
Office, J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1882. On loan.
her mother, describing a few days spent at the big trees and
the Yo–Semite. Chicago: Horton & Leonard, Printers, 1871. On
loan; for Special Collections copy see: F868.Y6 V36 1871a
Emeryville, Calif., c2002.
Tuolumne Mammoth Tree Grove, Scene in the Tuolumne
Mammoth Tree Grove, California, (The “Dead Giant,” 31
feet in diameter.) En route to Yo Semite, via Calaveras
Groves, and Big Oak Flat. Sonora, Tuolumne Co., Cal.
______1879. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1879]. On loan.
Anonymous, [Yosemite Falls], chromolithograph, circa 1880.
On loan.
F. Schenk, Sequoia Wellington, Mariposa Grove, South
California. [Grizzly Giant]. London & Edinburgh: Published
by Peter Lawson & Son, 1863. On loan.
Thomas Almond Ayres (1816-1858), “The High Falls, 1855.”
On loan.
Exhibit co-curated by:
Char Miller, Director, Environmental Analysis Program/W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College
Lisa L. Crane, Western Americana Librarian, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Cover image credit:
Edward Dean Lyman and family at Yosemite, undated.
Edward Dean Lyman papers, H.Mss.1012, Special Collections,
Honnold/Mudd Library.