Shaw & Powell Camping Company
Administrative History
The Shaw & Powell Camping Company (1898-1916) was a permanent camping company in Yellowstone National Park.
The Shaw & Powell Camping Company was permitted to operate "movable camps" in Yellowstone in 1898; the firm was started by Amos Shaw and J.D. Powell (John D. Powell) with headquarters in Livingston, Montana; in 1912 the company bought out the R.C. Bryant Camping Co. that had been operating camping tours from the West entrance since 1910, and known as Bryant-Spence Camping Co. since 1903; the sale also included the Bryant Way hotel in West Yellowstone (the town was known as 'Yellowstone' at that time); they were given permission to build permanent camps in 1913 at all major locations and operated their own stage lines to transport their customers around the park; after the 1916 season the company was merged with the Wylie Camps to form the Yellowstone Park Camping Co.; the transportation business was turned over to the Yellowstone Park Transportation Co.
Citation:
Yellowstone Park by camp, 1909?: t.p. (Shaw & Powell Camping Company)[Shaw & Powell Camping Co., Yellowstone National Park postal cover], [between 1908 and 1916]: envelope (Shaw & Powell Camping Co., Yellowstone National Park, Livingston)
Geyser Bob's Yellowstone Park Historical Service, via WWW, August 8, 2016 (Camps History in Yellowstone National Park: The Shaw & Powell Camping Co.)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Photographs of Shaw & Powell Camping Company in Yellowstone National Park
Contains 62 black and white tourist photographs taken of various points in Gardiner, Montana, and Yellowstone National Park. These photographs were taken on a trip with the Shaw & Powell Camping Company, one of the major camping companies in Yellowstone National Park. Dated approximately 1915. Duplicate photographs of originals also included in the collection.