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Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 512 Collections and/or Records:

Gibbon Falls in Gibbon River Canyon--near Gibbon’s Lunch Station, 1907 August

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239247353]
Identifier: MSS 9076 Item 27
Dates: 1907 August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9076, Photographs of Wylie Permanent Camping Co. in Yellowstone National Park

Benjamin A. Gifford photographs of the West

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239268235]
Identifier: MSS P 392
Scope and Contents

Collection includes seven photographs of the American West, taken by Gifford between the 1890s and the 1920s. Contains images of Yellowstone National Park, including buffalo.

Dates: approximately 1890-1929
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Benjamin A. Gifford photographs of the West

Glass plate negative of a fawn in a sagebrush in Gardiner, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 30
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 30
Scope and Contents

New fawn (mule deer with spots still present) in sagebrush, probably in Gardiner area.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children looking east toward Rattlesnake Butte, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 31
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 31
Scope and Contents

Group of children with women (presumably their mothers and/or caretakers) and definitely looking east across the flats east of Gardner River to Rattlesnake Butte, identifiable in background.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children on west bank of Gardner River, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 3
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 3
Scope and Contents A much clearer and generally better version #31: (#31: Group photo of children with women (presumably their mothers and/or caretakers) and definitely looking east across the flats east of Gardner River to Rattlesnake Butte, (identifiable in backgroound)). The children here are neatly posed and quiet; one of the women is the only adult in the photo and is wearing a bonnet; and almost everyone is wearing a hat and apparently posing on the west bank of the Gardner River looking toward the...
Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children on west bank of Gardner River, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 4
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 4
Scope and Contents

A clearer and quieter version of #31: (#31: Group photo of children with women (presumably their mothers and/or caretakers) and definitely looking east across the flats east of Gardner River to Rattlesnake Butte, (identifiable in the background).

All three adult ladies are present, two of them wearing hats. The children are in slightly different positions, probably based upon their playing.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a group of women and children on west bank of Gardner River, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 5
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 5
Scope and Contents

Another version of #3, slightly different: (#3: Children here are neatly posed and quiet; one of the women is the only adult in the photo and is wearing a bonnet; and almost everyone is wearing a hat and apparently posing on the west bank of the Gardner River looking toward the identifiable Rattlesnake Butte.)

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of a mountain panoramic view, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 20
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 20
Scope and Contents

High elevation, mountain panoramic view. Unknown range, unknown peaks, but could be the Yellowstone National Park area or area to its immediate east.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 1
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Summit of unknown mountain looking out to tops of many other mountain peaks, probably Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of an elk from a distance near LaMar River in Yellowstone National Park, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 22
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 22
Scope and Contents

Elk at a distance on a river, probably Lamar River, in Yellowstone National Park.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9008, Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

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