Crater of Beehive Geyser. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1872.
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Date Taken
1872
Summary
Album caption and index card: Crater of Beehive Geyser. On the opposite side of the river from Castle and Old Faithful. A very symmetrical cone, about 5 feet in height and 6 feet in diameter at its base. It is most beautifully beaded all over its exterior surface with small pearl-like drops of silica. Its eruptions are of great force, throwing a stream fully 200 feet in height, and holding it up with perfect steadiness for a period of from 10 to 15 minutes. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1872. See also: jwh00957 and jwh01574 Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1872 Series, page 43, No. 442: Crater of Bee-Hive [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: Crater of Beehive Geyser. On the opposite side of the river from Castle and Old Faithful. A very symmetrical cone, about 5 feet in height and 6 feet in diameter at its base. It is most beautifully beaded all over its exterior surface with small pearl-like drops of silica. Its eruptions are of great force, throwing a stream fully 200 feet in height, and holding it up with perfect steadiness for a period of from 10 to 15 minutes. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1872.
See also: jwh00957 and jwh01574
Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1872 Series, page 43, No. 442: Crater of Bee-Hive Geyser. On the opposite side of the river from Castle and Old Faithful. A very symmetrical cone, about five feet in height and six feet in diameter at its base. It is most beautifully beaded all over its exterior surface with small pearl-like drops of silica. Its eruptions are of great force, throwing a stream fully two hundred feet in height, and holding it up with perfect steadiness for a period of from ten to fifteen minutes.
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Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Collection.
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