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Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 518 Collections and/or Records:

Four men standing in front of the first adobe schoolhouse in Provo, approximately 1900-1950

 Item — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8; Series 9; Series 10; Series 11; Series 12; Series 15; Series 16; Series 13; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197235226179], Folder: 16, item: 335
Identifier: MSS 8424 Series 16 Item 335
Dates: approximately 1900-1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John C. Swensen photographs / John C. Swensen photographs of the pioneer trail
Image of Giant Geyser, Fire Hole Basin
Image of Giant Geyser, Fire Hole Basin

Giant Geyser, Fire Hole Basin

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b1_f2_32a
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Giant Geyser, Fire Hole Basin, approximately 1871

 Item — Box 3: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621884], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 32
Scope and Contents note

A faded photograph by William Henry Jackson of a large geyser in the foreground and trees in the background.

Dates: Other: approximately 1871
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Henry Jackson papers / William Henry Jackson photographs and art

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 / 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

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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

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