Scope and arrangement
The collection comprises landscape photography, the bulk featuring mountains, cliffs, canyons, waterfalls and gorges, scenic roads, and plantlife. Locations predominately include various U.S. National Parks, Monuments and Forests across Arizona, the Hawaiian Islands, Idaho, Indiana, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The collection also includes photographs depicting Native American historic sites and artifacts, and a small number of photographs of Native American and Native Hawaiian people. There are also a small number of photographs of the Canadian Rockies and Capilano Canyon (North Vancouver, British Columbia).
Photographers whose works are represented include: George L. Beam, Fred Payne Clatworthy, Asahel Curtis, Herbert Wendell Gleason, Jack Ellis Haynes, E. A. Mills, Arthur M. Prentiss, Fred Payne Clatworthy, and several others.