Dixon Art Preservation

Joseph Dixon was an early National Park Service wildlife biologist and photographer and this collection of his work contains approximately 7,400 early wildlife images from Yosemite and other western national parks.

Acquired by the Yosemite Archives in 2008, the collection contains lantern slides, glass plates, nitrate, and cellulose photographic negatives, prints, and field notes created by Joseph Dixon from 1909 until his death in 1952.

This project will preserve a swell as digitize images for increased access and use.

Doug and Judy Adams

Yosemite Conservancy donors

Project Notes

Yosemite is the most magical place on earth. We support the Conservancy because we want this most beautiful of national parks preserved for all of us, and for your children and ours, for all time.