Title taken from caption. View of stratification at the dig site on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "A section of the bank of one of the craters in Knife Creek Valley, showing the fan shaped stratification due to the fall of detritus around the edge of the crater. The strata of Katmai ash at the base...