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2023.055.3.0230Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a man standing atop a large rock overlooking Crater Lake. Above the image "T187 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V26189T A Lake with a Wondrous Story - Crater Lake, Oregon." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted. Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V26189
CRATER LAKE, OREGON
Thousands of years ago there stood, where this conical island now rises, a mountain to which the name Mount Mazoma has been given. It was only one of many great volcanoes in this range, aong the others being Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount Lassen, Mount Hood, and Mount Shasta. By their vomitings of immense volumes of lava these volcanoes built up the Cascade Mountains. In an eruption Mount Rainer blew its own top off. Mount Mazoma did something even more amazing. Its outpourings of lava opened such a huge cavern beneath its center that its entire top fell in and it literally swallowed itself.
But the volcano was still active. It cast up two or three peaks within the great crater formed by the collape of the main cone. As the volcano cooled, the creater filled with water, forming what is now called Crater Lake. We see before us, in the midst of the lake, one of the small peaks, named Wizard Island, which itself has a crater 150 feet deep.
Crater Lake is round in genral outline, with a diameter of about 5 1/2 miles and a depth in some places of 2,000 feet. It has no visible outlet but its waters are believed to escape underground, emergin a few miles away in the Klamath River.
This remarkable body of water was discovered by a party of gold hunters in 1853, and the Crater Lake National Park, comprisi 249 square miles, was created by act of Congress in 1902. Hotel accomodations now exist there and fishing is permitted, the lake having been stocked with rainbow trout. Hunting in the park, however, is forbidden.
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