OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
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Re: OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
We went through there last Sunday, but there was no eruption! Glad it didn't blow when we were there!
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Re: OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
Hmmm. is this a real picture? looks rather like photoshop - the cloud looks odd where it meets the buildings (disappears), the colour (sic) cast looks different, and the level of resolution between the street and the cloud appear different (cloud is much more detailed)?
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Re: OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
Adrian and Jay, That photo of the eruption I don't think I have seen before. It appears to be a slow film, with a few cars and several people moving quickly enough to not be "captured" by the film.
I believe (but could be wrong?) that before Mt St Helens, the Mt Lassen volcanic eruption was the last major volcanic eruption in the "continental USA" (lower 48 states).
I have been there a few times, and even nearly a hundred years later the devastation on the one side of the mountain is amazing to see!
There are quite a few famous and amazing photos of the eruption and aftermath. Several with a 1914 model T Ford touring car in the picture.
The smoke, steam, and debris clouds look like several other photos I have seen taken from other vantage points at about that point in the eruption. The cloud was visible for a hundred miles and rained volcanic ash well over two hundred miles to the east (due to prevailing winds). According to Google maps, the town of Red Bluff is about fifty miles from the Mt Lassen peak.
I believe (but could be wrong?) that before Mt St Helens, the Mt Lassen volcanic eruption was the last major volcanic eruption in the "continental USA" (lower 48 states).
I have been there a few times, and even nearly a hundred years later the devastation on the one side of the mountain is amazing to see!
There are quite a few famous and amazing photos of the eruption and aftermath. Several with a 1914 model T Ford touring car in the picture.
The smoke, steam, and debris clouds look like several other photos I have seen taken from other vantage points at about that point in the eruption. The cloud was visible for a hundred miles and rained volcanic ash well over two hundred miles to the east (due to prevailing winds). According to Google maps, the town of Red Bluff is about fifty miles from the Mt Lassen peak.
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Re: OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
I think it's just amazing how big the eruption is and if that town really is 50 Mi away it's it's amazing how much power volcanoes have. Just think, all of our climate action could immediately be erased when one of these things erupt again.
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Re: OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
...the colour (sic) cast looks different...
To me it looks like a typical sepia toned print of a b&w photo.
It appears to be a slow film, with a few cars and several people moving quickly enough to not be "captured" by the film.
Yes, fast films over ASA 100 are a recent development. ASA 16 or ASA 32 was a typical film speed a hundred years ago.
The inevitable often happens.
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Re: OLD PHOTO - 1915 eruption of Mt Lassen as seen from Red Bluff, California.
Here is another picture from the same view point, probably a little while sooner than the picture above: