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EARTH SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

This system is designed to provide a photographic archive collection from the U.S. Geological Survey Photo Library. These photos are not copyrighted and maybe viewed and downloaded free of charge. All photos are available in 100, 700 and 1400 dots per inch resolution. The collection consists of over 21,600 photos ranging in age from 1868 through 1992 with emphasis on Geology, Earthquake Damage, National Parks and Monuments, Pioneer Photographers such as W.H. Jackson, J.K. Hillers, T.H. O'Sullivan, A.T. Russell and others, Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruption of 1980, and Mines, Mills and Quarries. However the system may be searched using a free-form string search engine which allows the user freedom to more exactly find the photo and caption of interest.

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San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906 Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 1871 and 1872 expeditions Mount St. Helens eruption August 7, 1980 Utah Fuel Company's Clear Creek mine, Utah. ca 1923