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Crater of Grotto Geyser. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.

Dates

Date Taken
1871

Summary

Album caption: Grotto Geyser, Fire Hole Basin, Hot Springs Series. Handwritten notes on album caption: Missing in USGS Albums and glass negs in National Archives. Close up view – see 57-HS-1182. KW #J-9-4 in YNP – similiar photo – many tall trees back of Geyser. Wabash College Archives has good photo 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 31, No. 297: Crater of Grotto, a few rods below the Giant, and ensconced in a grove of trees. It differs externally from all the other craters, but, like the rest, consists of a mass of siliceous sinter, twelve feet in diameter and five feet high, full of large [...]

Contacts

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

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Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Bound Album Collection, (200)1 HMi 1871 v. 2.

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