Old Faithful at Yellowstone (1880s-1909)
/Internet Archive has 4 volumes of images of Yellowstone National Park produced by F. Jay Haynes from the 1880s to 1909. It is interesting to think about what it must have been like to visit the park during those early years. It would have taken a lot more effort to get there than it does today! At the same time – the facilities would have been minimal/primitive….there would not be crowds of people or problems with vandalism either.
I selected pictures of Old Faithful as sample images – a wonderful variety of depictions: 2 in color, 1 at sunrise. Each volume is well worth browsing for the other images as well.
Yellowstone National Park: in water colors (188?....the volume does not have a title or copyright page but presumably it was sometime after fall 1881 when he spent 2 months in the park and took over 200 photographs; he had a lease for a small photography studio in the park by 1884).
Yellowstone National Park: the world's wonderland (1889 with Truman Ward Ingersoll and Charles Frey)
Haynes souvenir album : Yellowstone Park (1909)
I’ve only been to Yellowstone once…and it was before I photography became a hobby…thinking about what time of year I want to go next time and hone my plans for the type of photography I want to attempt there.
