The following photographs appeared in 1916 edition of the National Parks Portfolio.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Old Faithful. (Photograph by J.E. Haynes, St. Paul)

THE GREAT FALLS OF THE YELLOWSTONE, NEARLY TWICE AS HIGH AS NIAGARA. Below these falls the river enters the gorgeously colored Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. (Photograph by J.E. Haynes, St. Paul)

OLD FAITHFUL INN (top); THE MAMMOTH HOTEL (center); THE LAKE HOTEL (bottom) Three of the five large hotels in the Yellowstone National Park. (Photographs by J.E. Haynes, St. Paul)

THE HIGHEST WATERFALL IN THE WORLD—THE YOSEMITE FALLS. The Upper Fall measures 1,430 feet, as high as nine Niagaras. The Lower Fall measures 320 feet. The total drop from crest to river, including intermediate cascades, is half a mile. (Photograph by A.C. Pillsbury)

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK. (Photograph by A.C. Pillsbury)

HERE THE SIERRA HAS MASSED HER MOUNTAINS; TUMBLED THEM WILFULLY, RECKLESSLY, INTO ONE TITANIC, SPRAWLING HEAP. (Photograph by H.C. Tibbitts)

A RIPPLING RIVER OF ICE 1,000 FEET THICK FLOWING FROM THE SHINING SUMMIT OF MOUNT RAINIER. Looking from a wild-flower slope down upon the celebrated Nisqually Glacier and up at Columbia Crest. (Photograph by Curtis & Miller)

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. National Park Inn. (Photograph by Curtis & Miller)

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK. Looking into its vast depths is like looking into the limitless sky. (Photography by Fred H. Kiser, Portland, Oregon)

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK. Sand Creek, showing Pinnacles resulting from erosion. (Photography by Fred H. Kiser, Portland, Oregon)

CLIFF PALACE IS THE MOST CELEBRATED OF THE MESA VERDE RUINS BECAUSE IT IS THE LARGEST AND MOST PROMINENT.

SPRUCE TREE HOUSE HIDES UNDER A OVERHANGNING CLIFF. ()

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. SEEN FROM THE EAST, THIS RANGE RISES IN DARING RELIEF, CRAGGY IN OUTLINE, SNOW-CLAD, AWE-INSPIRING. This photography is from the high drive in Estes Park and exhibits summits lying to the north of Longs Peak. (Copyright by Wiswall Brothers, Denver)

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK. FEW MOUNTAIN GORGES ARE SO IMPRESSIVELY BEAUTUFIL AS LOCH VALE.

THE SUPREME GLORY OF THE GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IS ITS LAKES. A glimpse of beautiful St. Mary Lake and Going-to-the-Sun Mountain. (Photograph by Fred H. Kiser, Portland, Oregon)

FAMOUS GRINNELL LAKE WITH THE PICTURESQUE GRINNELL GLACIER ABOVE, WHENCE IT DERIVES ITS PARTLY MILKY GLACIER WATERS. Camping at the head of the lake you see the glacier above you thrusting over the rocky shelf like the eaves of a house. (Photograph by Fred H. Kiser, Portland, Oregon)

INTERIOR OF MANY GLACIERS HOTEL, LAKE McDERMOTT. (Photograph by H.T. Cowling)

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK. "By far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles."—Charles Dudley Warner.

"It is beyond comparison—beyond description; absolutely unparalleled throughout the wide world."—Theodore Roosevelt (Photography by George R. King)

THE CELEBRATED JACOB'S LADDER ON THE BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL. The photograph shows how broad and safe are the Grand Canyon trails. There is no danger in the descent. (Copyright by Fred Harvey)