Volcanic Ash in Alaska 1912 Poster

A classic photograph from the Alaskan documentary efforts of Frank G. Carpenter. This commemorative poster print features a View of volcanic ash from the largest eruption on Earth this century which occurred at Novarupta Volcano, Alaska, on the afternoon of June 6, 1912; within 4 hours, ash from a huge volcanic eruption began to fall on the village of Kodiak; by the end of the eruption on June 9th, the ash cloud, now thousands of miles across, shrouded southern Alaska and western Canada. By June 17th it reached Algeria in Africa. Structures burned after being struck by lightning from the ash cloud.