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Black-and-white negatives

 Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Found in 702 Collections and/or Records:

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 / Billy Hofer Yellowstone glass plate collection

Glass plate negative of an unknown rock formation, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 17
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 17
Scope and Contents

Unknown rock formation. Not Eagle's Nest Rock in Gardner Canyon.

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

Glass plate negative of an unknown rock formation, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 18
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 18
Scope and Contents

Same rock formation with others, different vantage point.

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

Glass plate negative of an unknown woman, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 27
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 27
Scope and Contents

Unknown woman with curls on her forehead, 1880s or nineties dress, in either a cracked glass plate, or else emulsion of the photo is sloughing off.

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

Glass plate negative of an unknown woman with baby in a deciduous forest, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 29
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 29
Scope and Contents

Unknown woman sitting with baby in deciduous forest. This could be in the Gardiner area, below Sepulcher Mountain somewhere near Rainbow Lakes. She looks like Ella Hoppe and the baby looks like Paul Hoppe. If those identifications are correct, this was Walter Hoppe's family. I can't be positive because the woman is in profile here rather than full facial, but I think it is Ella Hoppe and baby Paul.

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

Glass plate negative of an unnamed rock outcropping in Gardiner, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 19
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 19
Scope and Contents

Striking, unnamed rock outcropping in Gardiner, Montana area, just below Sepulcher Mountain.

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

Glass plate negative of an unnamed rock outcropping in Gardiner, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 25
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 25
Scope and Contents

Same as #19, but at a slightly different vantage point, moved to the northeast. (#19: Striking, unnamed rock outcropping in Gardiner, Montana area, just below Sepulcher Mountain).

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

Glass plate negative of an unnamed rock outcropping in Gardiner, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 26
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 26
Scope and Contents

Almost the same as 19.

(#19: Striking, unnamed rock outcropping in Gardiner, Montana area, just below Sepulcher Mountain).

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

Glass plate negative of August "Specimen" Schmidt holding Paul Hoppe, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 28
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 28
Scope and Contents

August "Specimen" Schmidt, Cinnabar resident, holding Paul Hoppe who grew up to be the buffalo keeper in Yelowstone National Park. I've written about Schmidt and Paul Hoppe in Gateway To Yellowstone: The raucous town of Cinnabar on the mountain frontierR (2015). Compare this photo to one in Bill and Doris Whithorn's Photo history of Aldridge, pageg. 171.

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

Glass plate negative of Billy Hofer and friend on freight wagons near Cinnabar, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 6
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 6
Scope and Contents

Billy Hofer (driving) and unidentified friend, both on two freight wagons, being pulled by a six-horse team with two more horses tied behind. Background is near Cinnabar, Montana.

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

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