Title taken from caption. View of grass sprouting in the tracks left by a bear in the soft mud. The grass seed would blow across the smooth surface of the mud and only find a place to take root in the indentations of the bear tracks. Photo taken at...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "A block of lava on the plug of Novarupta showing the ropey flutings due to flowage of the more fluid bands of lava after the block had broken off." Photo taken at Novarupta, Alaska, at what was later...
Title taken from caption. View of a chunk of pumice thrown out from Novarupta, with a pickaxe nest to it for scale. The pumice is located somewhere in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from caption "A cottonwood tree buried in the ash. The curious branching shows that it had reached the limits of heights possible under the climatic conditions." View of two members of the expedition with a cottonwood tree. The trees...
Title taken from caption. View of a fish cache, probably near Naknek Lake, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1918.
Title taken from caption. View of damage to a hillside made by rocks from volcanic eruption of Mount Katmai. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. View of a lighter (barge) loaded with salmon and being towed by a tugboat. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
Title taken from caption. View of a crowd of men and boys looking at a large mud shark being hauled on to the beach on Prince William Sound, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of the top of a native potato cellar near Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of house on shore of Woody Island (known earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. Photo taken during a National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Title taken from caption. View of small single sail fishing vessel from Ugashik, Alaska. Photo probably taken near village of Naknek. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
Title taken from caption. View of National Geographic expedition member standing next to passive boiling mud pot. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition reading to pass away the time on a rainy day. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. View of new pussy willow growth, growing horizontally in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Vertical growth has been sandblasted by ash, blowing in the wind, and destroyed. Photo taken during National...
Title taken from caption. "A section of the ash fall showing differential weathering between first and second layers." View of a mining pick to give scale to the depth of the ash that has fallen in two separate layers. Photo taken at what was later...
Title taken from caption. View of a small mud volcano with a shovel beside it for scale. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1918.
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition taking time to sew up a hole in his clothes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to...
Title taken from caption. View of a street in Valdez, Alaska. A group of men are leaving a building on the right that has a sign reading "Buffet". The next sign on the right reads "Copper Block Rooms". The second building on the left appears to be...
Title taken from caption. View of H.M. Wallace holding a swan that he shot in one hand and the Remington he used to shoot it in the other hand. Caption also says: "H.M. Wallace. A swan and the Remington automatic." Photo taken in what was later...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic expedition looking up at the roots of a tree lodged high up in the branches of another tree by the "great flood" which was created by the 1912 Katmai eruption. The polished white...