# @nationalparkservice on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21022432-nationalparkservice-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-07T14:51:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Service (@nationalparkservice) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice

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The “Waugh” Factor

Before and during the early years of the National Park Service, publicity for national parks was spearheaded and funded by railroads, hotel operators, automobile associations, friendly newspaper and magazine editors, and others in the tourism industry. In the 1920s the National Park Service wrote and published stories and reports about the national parks, but it wasn’t until 1934 that it began its own program using graphic arts to encourage people to visit national and state parks. National park employee, artist, and landscape architect Dorothy Waugh designed 17 posters between 1934 and 1936.

Waugh was hired by the NPS as a landscape architect and artist in the Branch of Planning around 1933. Her work included gathering information on park facilities and to develop an illustrated manual with instructions to construct basic park structures that could be used by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Waugh's designs provided practical prototypes that could be adapted or reproduced by CCC workers.

It’s not known how Waugh’s NPS work evolved to include posters to promote state and national parks, but she picked up the task in 1934. Although later posters, particularly the WPA park posters, have received more attention in recent years, it was Waugh’s iconic designs that established the interest and value in an NPS poster program as a tool for promoting national parks.

Read more about Waugh and her posters by clicking the link in our bio. 

Image 1: "Where the Deer and the Antelope Play National Parks" poster by Dorothy Waugh, ca. August 1934. (NPS History Collection, HFCA 1651)

Image 2: "The Adventures of Today are the Memories of Tomorrow National Parks" poster by Dorothy Waugh, ca. August 1934. (NPS History Collection, HFCA 1649)

Image 3: "Life at its Best National Parks" poster by Dorothy Waugh, ca. August 1934. (NPS History Collection, HFCA 1647)

Image 4: Dorothy Waugh passport application photo, ca. 1930s. (Courtesy of Artvee)

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