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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 high mountain tops, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 12
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 12
Scope and Contents

View of high mountain tops, similar to #1: (#1: Summit of unknown mountain looking out to tops of many other mountain peaks, probably Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park). Possibly taken by Billy Hofer on one of his trips to the summits of the Absaroka Range.

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

Glass plate negative of ice crystals in a doorway, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 33
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 33
Scope and Contents

Feathery ice crystals on outside of door, perhaps at Billy Hofer's cabin near Cinnabar, Montana.

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

Glass plate negative of Mount Everts in Yellowstone National Park, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 23
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 23
Scope and Contents

A slope of Mount Everts 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 Mount Everts in Yellowstone National Park, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 24
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 24
Scope and Contents

Same as #23, but slightly different vantage point, looking up Mount Everts. I am pretty sure I can find this exact spot, taken from the main road through Gardner Canyon.

(#23: slope of Mount Everts 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 older man (probably Billy Hofer) seated at table smoking a pipe, 1887

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 8
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 8
Scope and Contents

Unidentified man in cabin, but I think it is Billy Hofer late in life, probably taken in Washington State. When I click back and forth between this photo and #7 [Billy Hofer's meal in his cabin in Cinnabar, Montana], I see that the nose, the ear, the parting of the hair, the mustache, and even the blue eyes are the same in each photo!

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

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

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239252205], item: 2
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 2
Scope and Contents

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

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

Glass plate negative of volcanic rock formation, 1887

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 31197239252213], item: 13
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 13
Scope and Contents

Unknown rock formation that is clearly volcanic in nature so it probably was taken either inside Yellowstone National Park or outside to the east in the Absaroka Range. Two people can be seen climbing on the lower part of the pinnacles.

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

Glass plate negative of young girl in Billy Hofer's cabin in Cinnabar, Montana, 1887

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31197239252221], item: 32
Identifier: MSS 9008 Item 32
Scope and Contents

A young girl, unidentified and probably pre-teen, apparently taken in Billy Hofer's cabin.

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

Gone with the wind, 1939

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 768 Series 1 File 2291
Dates: 1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS P 768, Collection of motion picture and television film stills and photographs / Productions

Gunga din, 1939

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 768 Series 1 File 2379
Dates: 1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS P 768, Collection of motion picture and television film stills and photographs / Productions

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