Title taken from caption. View of a house and its front yard in Kodiak. The yard is covered in equisetum also known as horsetails. Robert F. Griggs wrote in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes "Of all the native plants the the one which...
View of a woman walking on a log to cross a stream. Robert F. Griggs in his book "The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" stated that three of the expedition members' wives visited the park in 1919 and that these were the only women to do so during this...
Title taken from caption. View of a pond filled with volcanic ash and the few water lilies growing out of it on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition washing up after a month in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The trees have all been stripped of leaves, branches, and bark by the ash blowing in the wind. Photo taken at what was later...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
View of building covered by volcanic ash near Kodiak Island and Katmai area, Alaska, after eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to what was later designated as Katmai National Park...
View of volcanic ash on ground around house near Kodiak Island and Katmai area, Alaska, after volcanic eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to what was later designated Katmai...
Title taken from caption. View of a tuff of grass growing out of an ash dune at Vegetation Station No. 21 near Kodiak. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. Sept. 12, 1917. Photographer: Robert F....
Title taken from caption. View of a fence that has had the bark sanded off and the wood smoothed by ash blowing in the wind. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of Katmai Cemetery buried in ash. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. July 15, 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of grasses sprouting out of the ash near a fence at Vegetation Station #19 on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic Society expedition standing in a tree looking down at horsetail (equisetum) growing up through the hollow trunk. The trees have been sandblasted by the ash blowing in the wind,...
Title from verso. Photograph of a volcano erupting. Verso reads: "Umnak -- Shooting hot volcanic ash bombs high into the air, a long-dormant crater nearby Mount Tulik gave soldiers at this Aleutian base some anxious moments this summer. ...
Title taken from caption. View of the chapel and girls dormitory of the Kodiak Baptist Church Orphanage on Woody Island (know earlier as Wood Island), Alaska. The field in front of the trees and buildings is covered in ash. Photo taken during...
Title taken from caption: "Sayre taking soil sample on Katmai ash flat." View of National Geographic expedition member Jasper Dean Sayre using small torch and knife to take soil samples. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition struggling to stake down a small black tent. The white tents used for sleeping let in too much light and a small black and opaque tent was brought for use as a darkroom. The trees have...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition trying to get drinkable water by straining it through a food bag to remove the ash and mud at Soluka Creek in what is now Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Photo taken during...
Title taken from caption. Excerpt from caption: "From 11 am to 2 pm the sky of Anchorage was in total darkness. Result from the eruption of Mt. Spurr on 9 July 1953. Photograph taken about 5 pm. Car to the left is a Chrysler. Car to right...