1918
The path of the eclipse on June 8, 1918, started south of Japan, went across the Pacific Ocean, and then across the United States. The largest city to see totality was Denver. The U.S. Naval Observatory obtained a special grant from Congress to send a team to Baker City, Oregon to observe the event. Howard Russell Bulter, an artist and physicist, painted a picture of the eclipse after only watching it for 112 seconds. The 1918 solar eclipse was the last time totality crossed the continental United States, from the Pacific to Atlantic.
