Photograph of Mineral King,  1903.

 Handwritten on the back of this photograph:  "Farewell Gap, with Party of Sierrians at Mineral King". 

Mineral King is now part of  Sequoia National Park.   This appears to be one of the pictures taken of Sierra Club members ("Sierrians") on their 1903 trip through the Sequoia National Park/Forest area.

Stamped on the back of this photo are the words:  "SAME SIZE." and "SUN SUPP."   The person who sold me this picture  thought that it may have at one time been in the photo archive of the "The Sun" newspaper of Sheridan, Oregon.

Close-ups from the photo above:

A rather interesting looking group.

The young gentleman at the left side of this photo is holding  the book:  "Good Gravy", by Ezra Kendall (Humorist and Vaudeville comedian), published in 1901.

 

 

(Added 7/21/15)  The man at center is Joseph Nisbet LeConte.    LeConte was a noted explorer of the Sierra Nevadas,   a professor of mechanical engineering at Cal Berkeley for 40+ year;  and he was the Sierra Club's second president (after John Muir's death).

 



Close-up showing the19th century miners' settlement in the background .

Seems like a bugler would kinda scare off the wildlife.