Women in National Parks- Alaska & Non-Contiguous

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• Selected pages from the Tektite II Program Plan
  Selected pages (5, 13-15) including the cover page and introduction from the U.S. Department of the Interior Tektite II Program Plan document.
• New York Times article "5 Women Scientists Start 2-Week Stay Under Sea"
  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."
• Image of a July 7, 1970 New York Times article on the all-female Tektite II mission
  Image of the July 7, 1970 print issue of a New York Times article on the Tektite II mission and all-female team.
• Mission dive team inside the Tektite II habitat
  Tektite II all-female saturation dive team inside the submerged habitat.
• Artist's rendering of the Tektite II underwater habitat.
  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.
• An awards ceremony for the Tektite II female dive team.
  An award ceremony for the "all girl" Tektite II underwater research team is held by the Secretary of Interior in Washington, DC.
• A Tektite II diver checks equipment.
  One of the all-female Tektite II team members checks dive equipment in preparation for their mission.
• All-female Tektite II team on the docks in Virgin Islands National Park.
  The five members of Tektite II's all-female dive team stand on the dock in swimsuits before beginning their mission.
• Dive team enters the water during Tektite II project.
  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.
• Mitsuko T. Shikuma stands in front of a sign in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
  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.
• Camper setting up for bad weather in Haleakalā National Park.
  A backpacker wearing a face mask sets up camp in bad weather at a backcountry campsite in Haleakalā National Park on Maui.
• A woman serves lunch at Haleakalā Crater Rim.
  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.
• Samoan villagers perform a traditional dance in the National Park of American Samoa.
  Samoan villagers perform as part of a cultural demonstration in the National Park of American Samoa.
• Ranger Janet Ross in Klondike Gold Rush NHP.
  Ranger Janet Ross at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Skagway, AK.
• Bonnie Koploy stands in front of the Katmai National Monument sign.
  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."
• Grace O'Keefe standing in front of Denali.
  Grace O'Keefe stands on a pile of metal pipes in Denali National Park with a view of the Alaska Range behind her.
• Grace Noble poses in front of a plane in Denali National Park.
  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.
• NPS employee talks to visitor with a bike at Denali Information Center.
  A female park service employee speaks with a visitor who has a bike and a backpack and appears to be traveling into Denali National Park.
• Alaska Native woman demonstrates basket weaving.
  An unnamed Alaska Native woman splits spruce root to create a birch bark basket near Kobuk Valley National Park.
• Hikers in Lake Clark National Park.
  Hikers move through brush along the Telaquana route in Lake Clark National Park.
• Alaska Native woman fishing on the Kobuk River.
  An Alaska Native woman fishes along the Kobuk River in Kobuk Valley National Park, 45 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
• Alaska Native woman demonstrates subsistence salmon harvesting.
  An Alaska Native woman filets salmon as part of a demonstration of traditional subsistence practices in Denali National Park.
• NPS ranger holding a puppy.
  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.
• Melody Webb Grauman walking in Lake Clark National Park.
  NPS Historian Melody Webb Grauman walks along the shore of a lake in Lake Clark National Park during a visit to homesteaders at the remote site.
• Melody Webb Grauman and local residents in Lake Clark.
  NPS Historian Melody Webb Grauman speaks with a local settler and her child in Lake Clark National Park.