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 one of the expedition members crossing Martin Creek in a canoe. The canoe is being pulled across by a tow line to the far bank. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve,...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition using the geothermal heat to cook with in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National...
Title taken from caption. View of the interior of a snow cave used by expedition members to store perishables while in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during...
Title taken from caption. "Taking the temperature of a hot one. Our thermometer read only to 360 centigrade. Not that the steam does not condense for some distance from the vent." View of two of the expedition members trying to get temperature...
Title taken from caption. View of a man to the right of a large fumarole (vent) issuing gases and vapors. Photo taken, near Baked Mountain, at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic...
Title taken from caption. View of Knife Peak near the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. It was later renamed Mount Griggs for Dr. Robert Fisk Griggs (1881-1962), botanist, whose explorations of the area, after the eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912,...
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. View of a member of the expedition walking up the valley at the head of Takkala Lake. Native name (Dakavak Lake) reported in 1904 by G. C. Martin, USGS. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition crossing a slope of ash above Mageik Canyon. 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 four members of the expedition having breakfast at Camp 9 in the vicinity of Katmai Canyon. The ash blowing in the wind has removed all the the leaves, branches, and bark from the few tree trunks still standing....
Title taken from caption. View of alpine harebells on the tundra. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of a clump of arctic daisies on the tundra. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917.
Title taken from caption. View of Senecio resedifolius (dwarf arctic butterweed of the sunflower family) on the tundra. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National Geographic Society...
Title taken from caption. View of the interior of a tent where members of the expedition are weighing out gold dust. The gold dust is to be used to pay for provisions. The provisions are laid out on tables in front of the expedition members. Photo...
Title taken from caption. View of the arrival of the expedition at the shore of Katmai Bay. The men are unloading their supplies from boats before returning to the ship in the distance for more. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai...
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. 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 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 Walter Metrokin, a packer with the 1917 expedition, scoring a board to turn it in to a washboard for doing laundry. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a...