Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruption May 18, 1980 Washington Vintage Postcard

Mount St. Helens located in southwest Washington, began volcanic activity in Spring. 1980 after a dormant period of 123 years. This picture was taken May 18, 1980 one hour after the major eruption blew over 2,000 feet off the top of the 9,677 ft. mountain, causing it to fall inwards and forming a crater. The photograph is shot from the south, looking north from a distance of 20 miles. Mud flows can be seen cascading down the mountain. The cloud of volcanic particles rises up to 60,000 feet in the atmosphere and has spread over most of the United States.

Jack Leffler started SKY-EYE, a Seattle based aerial photography business in 1971. As a member of both the Professional Photographers of America and of Washington State, Jack earned the merits to qualify for a Fellowship in,photography. His photographs have been shown on television, published in magazines, annual reports, and newspapers.

C. P. Johnston Co. (1928-1976) Seattle, WA. A publisher of view-cards depicting views of the Pacific Northwest. Some of their later photochromes were photographed by Mike Roberts.

Mike Roberts (1905-1989) is famously known as America's Postcard King due to his impressive career in color photography and printing that spanned more than 50 years. He began working in a photo studio in San Bernardino when he was young and had the opportunity to photograph figures like Albert Einstein and Amelia Earhart. He also photographed scenes from the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco to be published in The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, and Life and was later commissioned to take color photographs for a Standard Oil marketing campaign after WWII with the idea that color photos would be given to people who were filling their cars up with gas so they would want to take trips to the places in the photos, using more gas. Mike's son, Bob Roberts, said that his father had a bunch of photographs left over from the commission and decided to turn them into postcards.

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