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DESMOND PARK SERVICE COMPANY. Desmond Yosemite Falls Camp operated by Desmond Park Service Company San Francisco [postcard]. N.p., n.d. [1915]. Postcard, 14x8.8 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches), printed in green and black. Split back postcard advertising the Desmond Park Service Company's Yosemite Falls Camp. The short-lived Desmond Park Service Company was granted a temporary one year lease by the Park Service on June 1, 1915. By late 1915, with the backing of Stephen T. Mather, first Director of the National Park Service, the Desmond Park Service Company had a twenty-year lease and was the major concessionaire in Yosemite Valley. By late 1917 the company was bankrupt. See Sargent, Yosemite & its Innkeepers, pp. 47-70. Mild rubbing at edges, a very good copy. (#179424).

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