L. W. Currey, Inc.

SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS COMPANY. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks California ... [folder title]. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Co., n.d. [1940s]. Single sheet, 15 x 90 cm, with nine postcard-sized panels folded accordion-style into a paper mailer. 18 illustrations, plus 2 on mailer. First edition. Caption title for the brief text on the inside of the paper mailer: "Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, / California." A folder of colored photographs of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, published in 1940 or later (after the creation of Kings Canyon National Park). The mailer and images were printed by E. C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wis. Kropp was a "publisher and printer that began producing chromolithographic souvenir cards and private mailing cards in 1898 under the name Kropp. These cards were of much higher quality than those that would printed under the E. C. Kropp name. They became the E. C. Kropp Company in 1907 and produced large numbers of national view-cards and other subjects. Their latter linen cards had a noticeably fine grain. Sold to L. L. Cook in 1956 and they are now part of the GAF Corp. U.S." (metropostcard). Mailed; postmarked 23 August 1951. Mailer worn at edges, tape on one of the panels, fair to good. (#165116).