From the December 21 & 28, 1935, issues

CALIFORNIA, LAND OF SUN, IS PROUD OF CHRISTMAS SNOWS

Snow and California would seem at first glimpse to be mutually irreconcilable ideas. Yet Californians are proud of the snows that fall in their state. And with right: saw you ever a lovelier Christmas landscape than this, in Yosemite National Park? These winter snows of the Yosemite, indeed, are not only beautiful in themselves; they are indispensable for the maintenance of the park’s summer beauty as well.