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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 [...]

Contacts

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

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Material Request Instructions

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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Photo Number https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier jwh00278b

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