Scarce issues of Yosemite Tourist
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Heading: (California -Yosemite)
Author: Foley, Daniel Joseph
Title: Yosemite Tourist
Place Published: Yosemite National Park
Publisher:Yosemite Falls Studio
Date Published: c.1924-1932
Description: 3 issues. 6 to 8 pp. each. Illustrated from photographs. 28.5x21.5 cm (11¾x8½“), original wrappers.Scarce issues of this irregularly-published illustrated newsletter from D.J. Foley, perhaps better known for his annual “Yosemite souvenir & guide.“ The newsletter, sometimes called just “The Tourist,“ was issued during the summer months (“as often as the travel will justify its appearance, sometimes daily, at other times only three times a week“) from 1892 until July 1934. Foley, was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1857. In 1892 he moved from Pleasanton, California where he published a newspaper, to Yosemite Valley where he established the Tourist Printing Office (later the Yosemite Falls Studio). OCLC lists five institutions with collections or runs of the Yosemite Tourist, all in California: California Historical Society; California Newspaper Project; California State Library; University of California Berkeley; and the Huntington.The issues comprise:
Vol. 29, No. 32, Friday, June 27 (no year given).
Vol. 33, No. 46, July 5, 1928.
Vol. 28, No. 224, June 24, 1932.
Author: Foley, Daniel Joseph
Title: Yosemite Tourist
Place Published: Yosemite National Park
Publisher:Yosemite Falls Studio
Date Published: c.1924-1932
Description: 3 issues. 6 to 8 pp. each. Illustrated from photographs. 28.5x21.5 cm (11¾x8½“), original wrappers.Scarce issues of this irregularly-published illustrated newsletter from D.J. Foley, perhaps better known for his annual “Yosemite souvenir & guide.“ The newsletter, sometimes called just “The Tourist,“ was issued during the summer months (“as often as the travel will justify its appearance, sometimes daily, at other times only three times a week“) from 1892 until July 1934. Foley, was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1857. In 1892 he moved from Pleasanton, California where he published a newspaper, to Yosemite Valley where he established the Tourist Printing Office (later the Yosemite Falls Studio). OCLC lists five institutions with collections or runs of the Yosemite Tourist, all in California: California Historical Society; California Newspaper Project; California State Library; University of California Berkeley; and the Huntington.The issues comprise:
Vol. 29, No. 32, Friday, June 27 (no year given).
Vol. 33, No. 46, July 5, 1928.
Vol. 28, No. 224, June 24, 1932.
Condition
Some creasing and wear, one issue with tape residue on inside of front wrapper; very good.
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