Knowlton captured some unusual island events, including the arrival in 1921 of the first Ford Model T…

Everyone around me has the same pinwheel-eyed expression.

“Whaling required intensive skills—chasing, harpooning and killing the whale…”

Oh, how we islanders long to drive our cars directly from the grocery store to our houses.

When the ambulance crew arrived, they immediately began monitoring his vitals…

Islanders are not afraid to speak of the obvious uncertainties of the future.

A big, well-known California strawberry grower offered the participants samples of two or three varieties of huge, perfectly-formed strawberries…

Today, Gammelin employs about 60 people in fabrication, architectural stonework, construction, and quarrying.

His interactions with native peoples were notably better than that of other explorers.