[Geysers] USGS Photographic Library. -archival and scanning project

[David Monteith]

Carrie:

Great site.  Many interesting pictures.  A few mislabeled but that 
increases the fun.  I particularly like one of the "Daisy" photos....  Its 
hard to believe its been almost a decade since its last active phase (not 
Daisy the geyser in the photo).

The attached picture is a composite of two photos from the USGS 
library.  It is instructive (distressing) to see the hand of man in the 
early years of the park.

Dave

At 04:34 PM 1/4/07 -0700, you wrote:
>http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov
>
>This site is worth a visit - there are some nice historical geyser photos.
>
>~Carrie Guiles
>
>
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>Photos ­ Glimpsing Back; in
>Trust for the Future
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>A collection that is a national
>treasure held in trust by the
>Central Region (CR) Library is
>that of the USGS Photographic
>Library.  This archival
>collection of still photographs
>dating from the 1870’s includes
>works of such pioneer
>photographers as W.H. Jackson,
>J.K. Hillers, and T. Moran.
>Student employees are scanning
>pre-1955 images from that
>collection for the
>Web-accessible Earth Sciences
>Photographic Archive.  The
>Historic Photo Web Site now has
>nearly 34,000 photographs
>ranging in age from 1868
>through 1992.  These public
>domain, copyright-free photos,
>which can be viewed and
>downloaded free of charge, are
>an important asset to have
>available to the public and
>represent one of those “returns
>on investment” of taxpayer
>dollars that support the USGS.
>Approximately 400 new photos
>continue to be added on a
>weekly basis.  Photos are
>available in 100, 700, and 1400
>dots per inch resolution and
>may be searched using a
>free-form string search engine
>allowing you to easily find the
>photo and caption of interest.
>Our goal is to scan the most
>important pre-1955 collections
>before transferring the
>original materials to NARA
>(National Archive and Records
>Administration) as part of the
>mandated Federal Records
>Disposition Schedule.  I invite
>you to check out the Web site
>and to re-visit often as we
>continue to enlarge and improve
>this service and asset:
>http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov
>
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