Jungleland USA was a theme park in Thousand Oaks, California that housed animals used in Hollywood productions. The park was open to the public from 1929 to 1969. Clarke was hired as a photographer to help campaign efforts reconstruct and upgrade the park and bring economic growth and development to Thousand Oaks. The shots were used in a national campaign that was featured in the Wall Street Journal in 1961.

The expedition Clarke photographed in Oxnard and the Channel Islands was something he did for advertising purposes during 1965.

This was Clarke's first contract after he created his own publishing business, Garrison Publications. The job was photographing Baja Malibu, a residential housing project in Baja California.

The collection includes images taken by K. Garrison Clarke between 1949 and 1975. Some of the photographs were for commerical purposes while others were experiments. A sizable amount of the images come from the Jungleland USA, Oxnard/Channels Islands, and Baja California shoots.