Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Jasper Forest, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

A prime mystery of geology - thousands of acres of agatized logs that lie prone on the ground, in a vast basin once the bed of an ancient sea.  The cross sections of these logs reveal brilliant colors - every tint of the rainbow.

Large Petrified Log in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

This National Park, established by President Theodore Roosevelt on Dec. 8th, 1906, contains the greatest and most colorful concentration of Petrified Wood known in the world.  At the Rainbow Forest Museum, exhibits include beautiful polished sections of Agatized Wood, Fossil, Reptiles and Amphibian Skulls, Bones and Teeth.

Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology

In the Blue Room of the White House at the turn of the Century.  Shown are dresses of Frances Folsom Cleveland, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Ellen Axson Wilson, and Edith Boiling Wilson.  First Ladies Hall, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution.

In this Victorian parlor are dresses worn by Sarah Childress Polk, Betty Taylor Bliss, Abigail Powers Fillmore, Jane Appleton Pierce, Harriet Lane, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Martha Johnson Patterson.  First Ladies Hall, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution.

Indian Lake, Ohio

"Mark Twain" Sternwheeler Pleasure Craft on Indian Lake, Ohio

Souvenir, Indian Lake

Ohio's Million Dollar Playground

Souvenir, Indian Lake

Ohio's Million Dollar Playground

Logansport, Indiana

St. Joseph Hospital, Logansport, Ind.

Suspension Foot Bridge at Country Club, Logansport, Ind.

Logansport Post Office, Logansport, Ind.

Florida

The Pelican Family

Greetings From Florida

A gorgeous bird is the Pelican,

Whose beak can hold more than his belican.

He can put in his beak, food enough for a week

But I'll be d__d if I can see how in helican.

Florida Moon

Florida's climate rivals the Italian Riviera.  Here winter's skies are always smiling, the beaches crowded with happy throngs enjoying December's breezes, as balmy as any May-day zephyr.

The Painted Desert, Arizona

The Painted Desert

Soft reds and tans dominate the range of color that makes up The Painted Desert, on the edge of U.S. Highway 66 at sundown, in Arizona.

Painted Desert

Northern Arizona

One of the most colorful tourist attractions on Highway 66, located near Holbrook.

The Painted Desert

Northern Arizona

A vividly colored mesa, the Painted Desert with its buttes and ridges can be seen for miles along the Little Colorado.  it is a portion of the Petrified Forest National Park which was established in 1895, some 17 years before Arizona became a state.

Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology

Portable Steam engine, 1869, made by the J.I. Case Company, it produced about 8 horsepower for driving threshers and sawmills by belt.  The engine was moved from place to place by a team of horses during which the stack was folded back while the driver sat in the seat fastened to the stack.  Hall of Farm Machinery, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution.

The 1401, Pacific type passenger locomotive built in 1926 for the Southern Railroad.  Weight 280 tons, wheels 73" in diameter, cylinders 27 x 28", overall length 92 feet.  Railroad Hall, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution.

Combined Harvester-Thresher, 1886, pulled by 20 horses or mules, was the first built by Benjamin Holt, who later invented the Caterpillar tractor.  Made at Stockton, California, it is typical of combines manufactured in the late 19th century.  Hall of Farm Machinery, Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution.