Mountains southeast of lake. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.
Dates
Date Taken
1871
Summary
Album caption: Mountains S.E. of lake, Yellowstone Series 1871. Handwritten notes on album caption: 278. A missing photo in USGS albums in the National Archives. It's in Wabash College Archive too. 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, Nos. 278-282: Yellowstone Lake, a bird's-eye panoramic view, in five sections, taken from the high hills on the east side of the southeast arm, near where the Upper Yellowstone empties into the lake. The first view looks south, and shows the high range that separates the waters of the Yellowstone from those of Wind River. The second view includes the Upper Yellowstone [...]
Summary
Album caption: Mountains S.E. of lake, Yellowstone Series 1871.
Handwritten notes on album caption: 278. A missing photo in USGS albums in the National Archives. It's in Wabash College Archive too.
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, Nos. 278-282: Yellowstone Lake, a bird's-eye panoramic view, in five sections, taken from the high hills on the east side of the southeast arm, near where the Upper Yellowstone empties into the lake. The first view looks south, and shows the high range that separates the waters of the Yellowstone from those of Wind River. The second view includes the Upper Yellowstone and the bay in which it empties. The third and fourth are looking east and northeasterly across the southern arms of the lake and Promontory Point to the distant mountains on the farther side. No. 5, or the last of the series, is a view south, past Promontory Point, into the large open space of the lake, where it fades away into the horizon.
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. Bound Album Collection, (200)1 HMi 1871 v. 3.
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