Four tourists in aloha wear and full-skirted dresses lean against a wooden overlook railing, gazing into the vast charred maw of Halemaumau Firepit — the most active crater of Kilauea Volcano — its sheer basalt walls dropping hundreds of feet to a smoldering lava floor still venting pale sulfurous wisps against a postcard-blue Pacific sky. This unused chrome-era card captures Hawaii's volcanic grandeur at the precise moment the islands were transitioning from territory to statehood (Hawaii achieved statehood in August 1959), and the "Hawaii National Park" designation still printed on the card places it before the park's 1961 renaming to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Photographed by Bud Thuener of Pacific Camera and published by Ray Helbig's Hawaiian Service, Honolulu, under the "Nani Li'i" natural color card branding — the brand name meaning "Little Beauty" in Hawaiian. Card stock is Mirro-Krome by H.S. Crocker Co., San Francisco.