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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 13, 2012
Caption: Loomis Legacy Marker
Additional Description: [Photo Captions; bottom left, bottom center, bottom right]
Estella Loomis
Retaining the right to live on the museum premises, the Loomises built a home and art shop here (the current ranger station behind you). They spent their summers selling photographs, assisting visitors, and enjoying the park. Mr. Loomis died in 1935 and Mrs. Loomis in 1953.

In 1929 Mr. and Mrs Loomis gave the museum to the park to serve as its primary visitor center. Still open to the public today, the building stands a monument to the Loomises’ scientific and educational contributions.

The Loomises built a small seismographic station that is still operated by the National Park Service for educational demonstrations. Today nine seismometers within the park transmit seismic activity to U.S. Geological Survey geologists who monitor the park’s ever-present volcanic rumblings.
Submitted: August 7, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p214363
File Size: 2.714 Megabytes

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