Edward Lovejoy and Henry C. Foster made an extensive series of photographs of the Chicago Fire, plus a series of the city in recovery after the fire (1871). "Rebuilt Chicago, 1872" showed the downtown nearly completely rebuilt and a beehive of activity. This series also included some fine interiors of businesses. They also issued a series of the Interstate Expositions in 1873 and 1874, including their booth selling views. Lovejoy and Foster were a major distributor of pirate views, especially by midwestern photographers, and their label appeared on many views they did not publish. They did offer non-Chicago subjects, including an especially fine series of Yellowstone National Park.

There seem to be two types of Lovejoy & Foster Yellowstone views. The orange mount set and the yellow mount set. The numbering and images are identical, from #300-#324 for a complete set of 25 views (not all views have been recorded). Some of the views contain hand-written titles rather than the reverse title stamp. Most, if not all of the Yellowstone images were originally photographed by Joshua Crissman. Lovejoy and Foster re-issued Crissman's stereoviews after 1883.

Paul Rubinstein (born 1961) is an author and former air traffic controller in Virginia. Paul Rubinstein was born in Oakland, California, in 1961. He graduated from Shattuck-St. Mary's High School in Faribault, Minnesota, in 1979, and California State University-Chico with a B.A. Geography in 1986. He worked as an air traffic controller in Minnesota and Wyoming. In 2000, Rubinstein co-authored the book, The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and Their Discovery. In 2001, he founded a Yellowstone stereoview distribution business called YnpCollector Stereoviews.

Joshua Crissman (1833-1922) was a photographer in the Western United States. Joshua Crissman was born July 29, 1833 in Madison, Ohio. He probably began taking photographs during the Civil War, and moved to the Western United States circa 1868. He moved around Wyoming and Utah taking pictures, and he settled in Bozeman, Montana in 1871, where he was involved with William Henry Jackson in taking photos for the Hayden expedition of Yellowstone country. The stereoviews produced during this expedition, and Crissman's willingness to sell them to individuals and companies for publication, helped make him a popular photographer. After the scientific expedition, Crissman continued photographing Yellowstone's geysers, springs, and tourist attractions until the summer of 1874. His stereograph series, from 1871-1874, are called the "Views of Yellowstone National Park." Around 1874 he again moved around the western United States and continued to operate photography companies until his death in 1922.