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Lassen Volcano Observatory, 1926

By California Volcano Observatory 1926 (approx.)
In a black-and-white photo, a small wooden cabin with a peaked roof and single door and window sits in a snowy forest clearing. Snow is piled to chest height around the building and blobs of snow cling to the peak of the roof.
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Detailed Description

The original Lassen Volcano Observatory building, provided by the US Forest Service, about 1926. The observatory consisted of a small office over a 10x10 ft concrete cellar which housed two custom-built seismographs. A small cottage nearby housed Ruy H. Finch, the head of and sole scientist at the Observatory for much of its existence. (Photo by R.H. Finch from Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 18, 1928)

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Public Domain.