Photo Credit: National Archives
Vocational training for S.A.T.C. (Students’ Army Training Corps) at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Pictured is the Pole-Climbing class for the college’s telephone electricians with some of their instructors, ca. 1918.
Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)
Survivors of the Battle of Olustee gathered at the Monument dedication in Olustee, Florida on October 23, 1912. The Battle of Olustee was fought in Baker County, Florida on February 20, 1864. It was the largest battle fought in Florida during the American Civil War.
Photo Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston/Smithsonian Institute
A group of school children in 1899 viewing the first bison at the National Zoological Park – commonly known as the National Zoo – part of the Smithsonian Institute.
Photo Credit: Lewis Hine/Works Progress Administration (National Archives)
Frederick and Dimmock spinning glass wool at a factory in Millville, New Jersey on March 26, 1937.
Photo Credit: National Archives
Massive crowd photographed on the Lake Michigan beach in Chicago, ca. 1925.
Golden is an abandoned mining town in Oregon. Photo Credit: Tedder (Source)
Oregon has the most ghost towns than any other U.S. state. There are over 60 ghost towns in Oregon from abandoned logging camps to deserted gold mining towns. It’s hard to find a definitive number of how many towns there are because the state of remaining buildings and debris, if there are any, vary greatly. Some sources state there are over hundreds in Oregon (see comment section below). Some of the ghost towns have no current residents while others still have a few dozen citizens left.
Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force
Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming. The mission included 54 C-141 flights between Feb. 12 and April 4, 1973, returning 591 POWs to American soil.
Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)
Student at the Florida State College for Women reading about the Pearl Harbor Attack in Tallahassee, Florida, December 1941.
Photo Credit: Burgert Brothers/State Archives of Florida (Florida Memory)
Horse-drawn ambulance in Tampa, Florida around 1912.
Photo Credit: Arthur E. Scott/Reni News Photos/Courtesy of WHNPA/NPR
Television cowboy and roping legend Montie Montana lassoes President Eisenhower in the presidential reviewing box during his 1953 inaugural parade.
Photo Credit: Museum of the American West/LA Times
Photo Credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Medical staff attend to a wounded Choctaw U.S. soldier at the U.S. National Red Cross Hospital No. 5 in Auteuil, France, c.1917-1918.
Polly Mead Patraw, the first female ranger-naturalist at the Grand Canyon, dressed in her uniform in 1931. (Source)
Polly Mead Patraw became the first female ranger at the Grand Canyon in 1929. As a ranger-naturalist, she was only the second female in the entire park service.
During a roadside naturalist talk, ranger-naturalist Polly Mead talks with an auto caravan on a East Rim drive at the Grand Canyon, June 1931. Photo Credit: Grand Canyon NPS
In 1927, at the age of 23, Polly first laid eyes on the Grand Canyon. She was a botany student at the University of Chicago. The Grand Canyon was a stop on a summer-long trip that included visits at several other national parks in the west. When she first saw the canyon, from the North Rim, she was wonder struck. It was “a most emotional experience. It was wonderful.” She later stated. Polly wanted to learn more about it and decided to use it as the subject for her master’s thesis.
When Polly graduated, her benefactor, who was also her aunt, gave Polly the choice between a European trip or a trip back to the Grand Canyon to do research. Polly chose the Grand Canyon. She spent the next two summers researching near the canyon’s North Rim. Usually she stayed twenty miles north of the rim at a lodge but occasionally went on overnight trips to study plant life and collect specimens. On these trips, Polly would bring only a bedroll, canteen and a little pistol for protection. She completed her thesis by the end of her second summer. It was a complete study of the Kaibab Plateau (which borders the Grand Canyon’s North Rim).
After her thesis was accepted, Polly wanted to stay at the canyon. She first applied to the Forest Service but was denied because they did not hire women as ranger-naturalists – the position she wanted. Undeterred, Polly applied for the same position on the South Rim with the National Park Service. They accepted and, on August 1, 1930, Polly was sworn into office by Preston Patraw, the park’s Assistant Superintendent.
Ranger-naturalist Polly Patraw showing a foliage sample to visitor by an automobile around the East Rim of the Grand Canyon, June 1931. Photo Credit: Collins/Grand Canyon NPS
Her uniform consisted of the standard National Park Service uniform (similar to that of a riding habit). It had to be tailored to her since they did not have female uniforms. She also wore a soft-brim hat. Her job as a ranger-naturalist included many different things such as campfire lectures, auto caravan tours, nature hikes, planting wildflower gardens, and writing about various projects and her findings.
Polly began dating Preston Patraw, who sworn her into office. During a drive around the canyon’s rim in March 1931, Preston and Polly became engaged. They married within two months. Preston wanted Polly to stop working and stay home. She agreed. “I just said, ‘Yes, dear,’ as we did in those days.” Polly later remarked with a laugh. The family moved from park to park, going wherever her husband’s job took them. She missed the Grand Canyon but enjoyed discovering the similarities and differences between it and other parks.
Though no longer an employee with the National Park Service, Polly continued to study and write about botany and her own side projects. In 1954, Preston became the Superintendent of the Grand Canyon National Park and the family moved back. Her husband retired a year later and the family again moved. This time back to their Santa Fe home, where they had lived from 1947 to 1954. In addition to paving the way for other female rangers, Polly added significantly to the research and literature of plant and flower life in the Southwest. Polly died in 2001 but her legacy as a trailblazing ranger-naturalist still lives on in her beloved Grand Canyon.
Sources
Betty Leavengood, Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape, Grand Canyon: AZ: Grand Canyon Association, 2004.
R. Bryce Workman, “National Park Service Uniforms: Breeches, Blouses, and Skirts, 1918-1991,” National Park Service, No. 4 (1998).
Grand Canyon National Park, “Insider’s Look at Grand Canyon: Webisode #33 – Women History Month Transcript.”
“Canyon Lodges: Grand Canyon,” PBS.
Photo Credit: Vern C. Gorst/University of Washington Libraries
These “Spruce Girls” are posing on the beach while wearing spruce wood veneer bathing suits. The girls were promoting products for Gray Harbor lumber industry during “Wood Week” in Hoquiam, Washington, ca. 1929.
Four “Spruce Girls” wearing wood veneer bathing suits standing in the surf. Photo Credit: Vern C. Gorst/University of Washington Libraries
“Spruce Girls” Photo Credit: Vern C. Gorst/University of Washington Libraries
Five “Spruce Girls” standing on railway car. Photo Credit: Vern C. Gorst/University of Washington Libraries
“Spruce Girls” with large umbrella. Photo Credit: Vern C. Gorst/University of Washington Libraries
Bathing under a large umbrella, these “Spruce Girls,” wearing wood veneer bathing suits, are holding small boards shaped like feet. Photo Credit: Vern C. Gorst/University of Washington Libraries
Photo Credit: The Field Museum Library
A zookeeper smokes a pipe while feeding the bears at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, 1900.
Photo Credit: The Field Museum Library
Zookeeper smoking his pipe mouth and feeding two bears who are standing upright at Lincoln Park Zoo.
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Mari Levine, “Cakes Throughout U.S. History [Infographic],” America’s Test Kitchen, January 23, 2012.
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