So it seems the old duffer wasn't just interested in photographs of Yosemite and moonrises.

A fascinating discovery, the story of which is documented here:

americandigest.org/mt-archives/006189.php

Flickr set of all the photographs:
tinyurl.com/hfmew

Excerpt from the essay:

"I DON'T RECALL WHAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR when I came across the Ansel Adams
photographs of Los Angeles at the beginning of World War II, but I don't think it was a
handsome rendering of Half Dome or a Moonrise in New Mexico. It was something much
more gritty. On reflection, it might have been photographs of my original elementary school,
Benjamin Franklin in Glendale. In any case I was running a search in the Los Angeles Public
Library's immense online collection of photographs when something in a record caught my
eye, the name "Ansel Adams." The image attached to this record was of a parking lot with a
cars jumbled together around a prominent No Parking sign..."