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Contains eighteen handwritten letters to Elizabeth B. Lampman, all but one having postmarked envelopes, written between July to August 1903 by Edmund C. Babcock; there are also two letters written by an anonymous person or persons, located in the letter of July 16th written from Cripple Creek, Colorado. Letters document Babcock's travels through Yellowstone National Park as the secretary of the Brooklyn Christian Endeavor Union.

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Contains business records of the Cody-Sylvan Pass Motor Company, including profit and loss statements as well as correspondence regarding trips in automobiles through Yellowstone. Materials date from between 1915 and 1916.

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Contains 36 Yellowstone National Park black and white stereographs, with a few duplicates of varying quality. The dates range from 1871 to 1910. The stereographs were produced by several photographers, the main contributors being Joshua Crissman, Henry Bird Calfee, and the Nelson (Nelse) partnership.

Scope and Contents Contains the travel journal of Hollis "Sam" Wave Cowgill kept from June 8 to August 24, 1924. Hollis records names of travelling companions, weather updates, miles travelled each day, and the cities and towns passed through. During the trip, his party went through Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, and Indiana. Included are accounts of a trip to Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and other various historical sites including Fort Bridger, Sherman's Hill, and a...

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Materials include a four-page letter written from Helena, Montana, by Philip M. Crapo to his sister relating his visit to Yellowstone National Park just months after the area was officially made a national park. Crapo was one of the approximately 300 persons who visited the park in its first year. He describes many of the thermal features, falls of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone River canyon, and other scenery of the park that he saw in his visit. Dated September 20, 1872.

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Contains 110 black-and-white stereoviews, taken in the Yellowstone Park area in 1871-1872. Negatives by Joshua Crissman of Bozeman, Montana. 107 of these negatives were published and marketed by William Isaac Marshall in 1876. Three stereoviews by Lovejoy and Foster, using some of Crissman's negatives.

Scope and Contents This collection contains Paul D. Veach's papers documenting his experience working at Lake Lodge in Yellowstone National Park during the summer of 1948, including photographs, negatives, correspondence, and ephemera. Photographs and negatives document tourist activity in the park, Lake Lodge employees, the scenery and wildlife, and transportation. The collection also contains letters and postcards addressed to Paul D. Veach, an empty autograph book, an unidentified poem lamenting the food at...