Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

library of congress

barbara

fire

gorham

new hampshire

pine

barbara mortensen

lookout

vicinity

mortensen

public
65 media by topic ∙ page 1 of 1
A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H.

A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortens...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain. Upon sighting smoke, she phones in at once to the dispatcher in Gorham, who in turn relays the information to the fire warden of the suspected district

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H.]

[A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Morten...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Robert "Red" Mortensen, of Norwegian extraction, ski champion, serves as a machinist's mate in the U.S. Navy, while his wife, Barbara, serves the homefront by manning a fire tower on Pine Mountain overlooking her hometown of Berlin

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Robert "Red" Mortensen, of Norwegian...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking south through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking south through the Whi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain landscape, rocks, mountains, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Reading matter, and the companionship of her Great Dane, Brenda, are the only things to dispel the loneliness of the evenings in the tower for Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Reading matter, and the companionshi...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view east through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view east through the White Mounta...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, keeping her reports up to date

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, sighting suspicious smoke through a fire finder so as to locate accurately its source by cross bearings on the topographical chart

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, along with her fire lookout duties on Pine Mountain, also spots planes for the Interceptor Command

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, along with her fi...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, bound down the mountain a half mile to the spring where she gets her drinking water, and if there is no rain, her wash water too. On her back is strapped a metal water pack, which holds three gallons and weighs thirty pounds when full

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view looking through the White Mountains from the fire control tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H. View is to the south

A view looking through the White Mountains from the fire control tower...

Public domain photograph of mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking south through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking south through the Whi...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, starting on a half-mile climb from the spring carrying on her back fresh water for cooking and drinking in the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, running up the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, fire lookout on Pine Mountain, raising the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, fire lookout on P...

Public domain photograph of electric wires, power line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, starting down the mountain to get water from a spring a half mile from the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, mounts fifty-six steps to reach the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, leaving to get water from a spring half a mile down the mountain. Beside her is her dog, Brenda, a constant companion on her lonely job

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, and her Great Dane, Brenda. She says that without her dog she could not hold down her job

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, sighting through the fire finder which accurately locates fires on topographical maps

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, serves the Interceptor Command as a spotter. Use of binoculars is restricted to identification of planes; actual spotting is done with the naked eyes

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, eating supper after her long hours of vigil. She sleeps, eats and spends all her time in the tower, ever on the alert for the first suspicious trail of smoke

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, along with her fire lookout duties on Pine Mountain, also spots planes for the Interceptor Command

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, along with her fi...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, running up the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, filling her metal pack to carry back up one half mile of trail to the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, returning from Gorham where she had gone to replenish her food stock

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, getting her lunch from the air-cooled icebox under the floor of the tower, fifty feet above the ground

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking east through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking east through the Whit...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, identifying a plane for the Interceptor Command

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain filling her metal tank which she will carry on her back a half mile up the mountain to the fire tower

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, spotting planes

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain. Carrying wood up fifty-six steps from the mountain top below

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, drinking at the spring before starting the half-mile climb back to the tower with drinking water

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain does all her cooking in the tower. Wood and water must be carried up fifty-six steps from the mountain top below

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of cooking, kitchen, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain sighting through the fire finder which accurately locates fires on topographical maps

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, climbing back to the tower after getting supplies at Gorham. She keeps her dog on a leash because of porcupines

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, can see the lights of her hometown, Berlin, far down in the valley

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Evenings are long and lonely for Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain. Barbara reads or writes letters to her husband who is in the Navy

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Evenings are long and lonely for Bar...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, sighting through the fire finder which accurately locates fires on topographical maps

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. The view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. The view looking northeast from the ...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, running up the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain does all her cooking in the tower. Wood and water must be carried up fifty-six steps from the mountain top below

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hamphire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, running up the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hamphire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplan...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delaware County, PA

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, running up the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. District ranger Bond giving Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, some pointers on the fire location map

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. District ranger Bond giving Barbara ...

Public domain scan of a plan, map, architecture drawing, or diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Evenings are long and lonely for Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain. She reads or writes letters to her husband who is in the U.S. Navy

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Evenings are long and lonely for Bar...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Many visitors climb up from Gorham to visit the fire lookout tower on Pine Mountain. Barbara Mortensen, as fire guard for the national forests, uses these occasions to educate the public in fire prevention and conservation

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Many visitors climb up from Gorham t...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. District ranger Bond giving Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, some pointers on the fire location map

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. District ranger Bond giving Barbara ...

Public domain scan of a plan, map, architecture drawing, or diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A view looking south through the White Mountains from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H.

A view looking south through the White Mountains from the fire tower m...

Picryl description: Public domain view of a mountain range, mountainous landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, arriving at her tower after going down to the valley for supplies. She keeps her dog on a rope for fear he may meet porcupines

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. A view looking northeast from the fi...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, running up the colors

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description