Ansel Adams Photographs
Ansel Adams (1902–84) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. In 1941, the National Park Service commissioned Adams to create a photo mural for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. The theme was “nature as exemplified and protected in the U.S. National Parks.” World War II halted the project, and it was never resumed.
The National Archives still retains 226 photographs taken for this project, most of them signed and captioned by Adams. They were taken at many national parks parks including Glacier, Grand Canyon, Kings Canyon, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and Yosemite.
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