An unnamed woman assists in serving lunch to three men at a resthouse on the rim of Haleakalā Crater in Hawaii, seven years before the establishment of Hawai'i National Park Haleakalā Section in 1916. Haleakalā became an independent park in 1961.
An artists cutaway rendering of the living and research spaces of the Tektite II underwater habitat, where the all-female dive team lived and worked for two weeks.
NPS employee Bonnie Koploy stands in front of the sign at Brooks River Station, Katmain National Monument. The archive caption explains that Koploy wears "the 1962 NPS women's uniform without the pillbox hat and with trousers and walking boots instead of the skirt and pumps."
The all-female research team dives into the waters of Lameshur Bay, St. John Island, U.S. Virgin Islands while preparing to live in the Tektite II habitat.
Grace Noble (center) and her husband NPS Director Horace Albright (center left) pose with other park service employees on a trip to Denali National Park.
Melody Webb Grauman, NPS historian, is shown feeding Canada jays in front of Proenneke Cabin in Twin Lakes, Alaska in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
NPS employee Mitsuko T. Shikuma stands next to a plaque showing Stephen Mather, first director of the National Park Service. Mrs. Shikuma was an "information-receptionist" at Hawai'i National Park.
Full text of a New York Times article on the start of the Tektite II all-female dive team mission. The article seems to take a sexist tone in discussing the physiques and hairstyles of the participating scientists, and explains that a hair dryer has been provided in the habitat in a "concession to femininity."
A female park ranger holds a puppy for NPS Director William J. Whalen to pet, likely in Denali National Park. Denali has a long-running sled dog kennel program.
