スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 9月22日 06時14分

This 1913 postcard was scorched by Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.

Hawaii’s volcanoes have been a destination for adventurers since before they became part of a National Park in 1916. Tourists could arrive by passenger steamer and stay at one of the two hotels built at Kilauea Caldera. From there, the trail ran 3.5 miles down the side of the caldera and across the crater floor to the edge of its Halema’uma’u crater, where you could see lava glowing in the evening.

Visitors took sport in lowering sticks with food or souvenirs into the fissures. Some enjoyed a dinner of eggs and potatoes cooked by the volcano, while others brewed coffee or scorched postcards to mail back home.

The caldera floor is closed now, but these postcards remain in our @nationalpostalmuseum, which explores the relationship between U.S. mail and the National Park Service in their exhibition “Trailblazing: 100 Years of Our National Parks."

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