Pelican's Roost, near Steamboat Point. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.

Album caption and index card: Pelican's Roost, near Steamboat Point. A detached mass of the hot spring deposit, which has been cut off from the mainland by the action of the waves, and left in the lake 100 feet from the shore. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 30, No. 291: Pelican's Roost, near Steamy Point. A detached mass of the hot spring deposit, which has been cut off from the mainland by the action of the waves, and left in the lake one hundred feet from the shore.