Historical Geological Surveys

Black and white images depicting geological sites and cave explorations, highlighting significant historical nuclear testing and natural formations with a vintage aesthetic.

Craters on the moon, Loewy et Puisux, c. 1896 - in or before 1899 photomechanical print paper surface of the moon
Craters on the moon, Loewy et Puisux, c. 1896 - in or before 1899 photomechanical print paper surface of the moon
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Propagating Thornless Cactus, Burbanks Exp. GroundsSanta Rosa. Propagating Thornless Cactus, Burbank's Experimental Grounds, Santa Rosa, Cal.
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Atom Bombing Of Hiroshima. Aerial View Of Hiroshima After The Atom Bombing.
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Looking Back Across Meridiani Planum Seen by Rover Opportunity
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An engraving depicting a fossil tree trunk in a coal mine at Treuil near St Etienne. Dated 19th century
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Elsevier photo collection. Moodder pleasors. oversloy goes slightly better. January 31, 1952
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Albumin paper photograph by Jean Andrieu showing a portrait of Pierre de Béranger, produced around 1880 in stereo format, depicting the French poet and songwriter.
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Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes, reflected by a speculum. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
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Whaling in the Ross sea Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives
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Cinematographic recording of a 30.5 cm grenade in the flight for the right position of the projectile axis to the trajectory. Recorded on 27.3.1916. .
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The Doldenhorn and the Frundenhorn as examples of mountain formation by straightening the layers, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Earth pyramids of Ritten near Bozen, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Edwin Powell Hubble (second from right) and unidentified companions
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Apollo 16 - Ancient Moon Craters
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Motifus depicting a rauk. The picture is probably taken by John Hertzberg during a trip in Sweden.
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Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Laboratory Interiors - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Captain Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen 1872 to 1928 Norwegian explorer of the polar regions From the book The Year 1912 illustrated published London 1913
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Test Activities. LML area and personnel on Enewetak Isl. (8 of 9). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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UFO from Coma Berenices whose nine occupants spoke with Paul Villa for 90 minutes at Peralta, though what they talked about, no one knows 4 of 4 Date: 16 June 1963
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Observatory created by on the summit of Mont Blanc by the French astronomer Jules César Janssen (1824 - 1907). Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894
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Anefo photo collection. Launch of Apollo II from Cape Kennedy, USA. August 13, 1969. America
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Elsevier photo collection. Prof. T.J. Stomps (left), appointed regular professor anatomy system plants University Amsterdam, testing ground Hortus Botanicus. 1920. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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A giant iceberg fills the front page of the ILN as the headlines report the sinking of the Titanic just days before Date: 20 April 1912
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Anefo photo collection. Hungertest for 3 cave students in Louvergnee in Belgium. April 23, 1960. Belgium
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This glass slide aerial photograph by Franz Hinterstoißer, taken between 1897 and 1902, presents a top-down view of urban and natural features, highlighting early techniques in aerial photography.
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S74-19677 (April 1974) --- This crystal of Germanium Selenide (GeSe) was grown under weightless conditions in an electric furnace aboard the Skylab space station. Experiment M556, Vapor Growth of IV-VI Compounds, was conducted as a comparative test of GeSe crystals grown on Earth and those grown in a weightless environment. Skylab postflight results indicate that crystals grown in a zero-gravity situation demonstrate greater growth and better composite structure than those grown in ground-bases laboratories. The GeSe crystal shown here is 20 millimeters long, the largest crystal ever grown on Earth or in space. Principal Investigator for Experiment M556 is Dr. Harry Wiedemaier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. (See NASA photograph S74-19676 for an example of an Earth-grown Germanium Selenide crystal.)
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The meteorological screen and 'Inside a dog-tent.' In: 'The South Pole', by Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928. P. 266, Volume I, Library Call Number M82.1/99 A529s.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's air-propelled sledges, intended for use in the Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Shown here operating as air-propelled water boats. Below is a drawing of a new kind of dome-shaped tent which can be converted into a snow igloo for added warmth. 1914
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Atom-Bombed Hiroshima -- A view of the 265 square feet model on which visitors will see an hear the action of the atomic bomb as it explodes - a feature of the atomic age exhibition opening at Dorland Hall, London, Tomorrow January 23. January 22, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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LOOKING NORTH FROM SOUTH END OF SNOW TELESCOPE CONSTRUCTION SITE.
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Three photographs of the Jantr-Mantr astrolabe by Joseph von Rheden on silver gelatin paper, 1899, showing scientific instrument details and measurement markings.
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Vintage Photograph. Man prospecting for Uranium with Geiger Counter, Frame 3
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Whaling in the Ross Sea Nitrate negatives, black-and-white negatives
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First Saltpeter Vats. (1812) Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity. 4. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1889. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kentucky, Caves , Kentucky, Mammoth Cave (Ky.)
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Colorado - Rocky Mountain Arsennal, Aerial Photograph.
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Artificial Insemination Center. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Mammoth carcass exhumed in Siberia in the spring of 1902 by the expedition sent by the Russian Academy of Sciences, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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The Discovery of the Pacific. Original caption: "The Discovery of the Pacific" Charles Kendrick - from the Young Peoples Standard History of the United States. Library of Congress. Copied by H H Ritter - March 1938.
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Sala mine and silver plant chronology.sala silver mine.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.
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Prof. Herschel Parker
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Guinea: Hound Exploration journeys OranSbari sawmill Manokwari. Papuans whom Copal win exclusively practiced exception disastrous manner felling Treebat parent Cambium. result, cause "Callus formation" lump formation. September 1954. Guinea
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Photograph of Professor Carl Stormer photographing the Aurora Borealis, or 'Northern Lights'; Bossekop in the North of Norway, 1910. Professor Stormer, of Christiania University, was one of the first people to photograph the aurora successfully. Date: 1910
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Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.exampel color image.
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Folding coal layers in the Firmy quarry, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Scattering Grasshopper Poison. 1926 - 1956. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence
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Photograph by Franz I. Dantone showing the Eggentaler (Valle d'Gega) gorge passage built in 1860, printed on albumin paper in stereo format around 1880, depicting the engineering and natural landscape.
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Elsevier photo collection. Experimental garden Medicine Gardens Association Delft. background laboratory technical botany. August 1920. Delft, South Holland
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Elsevier photo collection. Jubilee exhibition Lisse Bloemlusthallen T.G.V. 75th anniversary Hillegom-Lisse Sassenheim departments Kon. Alga. Ned. Far. flower bulb culture. February 15, 1954. Lisse
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Anefo photo collection. Dangerous () Projectile to Naarden found, v.l.n.r. R. H. Horwitz, H. Tomassen and G. Buur. November 21, 1960. Naarden
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Illustration showing how shadows move with the passage of the Sun, if one is at the South Pole. Date: 1912
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Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Inside Hubbard's Cone (cone formed in 1931 eruption). Alaska Task Force Photographs
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With MacMillan's Expedition into the Arctic: Remarkable photographs taken by Donald MacMillan, Arctic explorer on his most recent expedition into the furthermost icy regions of the north. MacMillan finding peary's cairn and record at cape Thomas Hubbard. October 24, 1924. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Expedition star Mountains Julianatop (1959) - Guinea. Climbing Juliana top. P. ter low, cineagry. September 1959. Julianatop, Guinea, Star Mountains
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The fourth pyramid. Dr. Selim Bey Hassan showing pottery jar from excavations. 1934, Egypt, Jīzah, Jizah
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Reindeer skulls on Lost Jim Lava Flow being checked by John Reynolds. Alaska Task Force Photographs
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Greenland Cosmic Ray Scientific Expedition by the U.S. Office Of Naval Research -- During the summer months of August and September 1952, the U.S. Office of naval ray investigations in the vicinity of the geemagnetic pole in Northern Greenland. These measurement were made with scientific instruments and instrumented rockets carried to high altitudes by large constant level plastic balloons (Skyhooks) launched Prem the deck of the Ice breaker U.S.C.G.C. Eastwind while cruising in Baffin Bay. The Purpose of these experiments was to measure the charge and energy spectrum of the primary cosmic radiation, and the interactions of this primary radiation with the earth's atmosphere at high altitudes. October 1, 1952.
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ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER German geophysicist & meteorologist whose theory of continental drift was accepted after initial rejection Date: 1850 - 1930
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The villagers of Troussey, France, mistake this beetroot- collecting farmworker for a Martian... Date: November 1954