Thomas Doty – Storyteller

1874: First Photo of Crater Lake

Photo.

This is the first known photo of Crater Lake. It was taken by southern Oregon pioneer photographer Peter Britt in 1874. I used it as the cover photo on my 1977 volume of poems, Children of the Lake.

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