Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
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 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 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 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 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...
Title by cataloger. View of active volcano. Visible are smoke plumes and snow sprinkled with ash. The volcano closely resembles one identified as Mount Shishaldin (on Unimak Island) in "North Pacific: Japan, Siberia, Alaska, Canada" by...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title taken from caption. An Alaska willow, sandblasted clean on one side after the Katmai eruptions, with growth only from buds on the other side. Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during...
Title from verso. Mt. Veniaminof blows black smoke. The eruption is photographed from an airplane. Verso reads: "Mt. Veniaminof, Alaska -- Out on the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula Mt. Veniamanof, oldest known volcano and estimated to have...
Title taken from caption. View of volcanic ash deposit with Platform Ridge in background as seen from National Geographic Expedition base camp in what was later designated Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1919. Photographer: A.J. Basinger.