Skip to main content

Badlands near Casper Mountain. Natrona County, Wyoming. 1870.

Dates

Date Taken
1870-08-23

Summary

Album caption and index card: Badlands near Casper Mountain. There is here a considerable area covered with light gray sandstones, which have weathered into most unique forms. They resemble the ruins of some old village, with portions of the stone walls and the chimneys remaining. Natrona County, Wyoming. 1870. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1870 Series, page 13, No. 74 caption, Bad Lands, near Caspar Mountain. There is here a considerable area covered with light gray sandstones, which have weathered into most unique forms. They resemble the ruins of some old village, with portions of the stone walls and the [...]

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Jackson, William Henry

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

jwh00274.jpg thumbnail 11.11 MB image/jpeg
jwh00274.tif 25.14 MB image/geotiff

Material Request Instructions

Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Collection.

Rights

This USGS product is considered to be in the U.S. public domain. For further information on the USGS Information Policies and Instructions, refer to the Copyrights and Credits section on this web page: http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html

Additional Information

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary jwh00274
number photoLibrary 18616
batch photoLibrary btch109
number_in_book photoLibrary 274

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...