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A collection of skulls and bones near Fort Sanders. Albany County, Wyoming. 1870.

Dates

Date Taken
1870

Summary

Album caption and index card: A collection of buffalo, elk, deer, mountain sheep, and wolf skulls and bones, heaped up in monument form, being all collected near Fort Sanders, and shows the abundance of game that once abounded on these plains. Albany 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 20, No. 161 caption, "A collection of buffalo, elk, deer, mountain sheep, and wolf skulls and bones, heaped up in monument form, being all collected near Fort Sanders, and shows the abundance of game that once abounded on these plains. Albany County." Handwritten notes on back of duplicate [...]

Contacts

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

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary jwh00348
number photoLibrary 18689
batch photoLibrary btch123
number_in_book photoLibrary 348

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