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Handwritten notes on back of photograph: W.H. Jackson 208. Thomas Moran seated at water's edge (12/15/1970 by Nell Carico, USGS). The Second Cañon. Plate 75 View of the Yellowstone, 1871. In USGS album First Canon to Yellowstone Lake. No. 208 missing from USGS albums in the National Archives. See stereo 421, 422, 423 (1871). No index card. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 24, No. 208: The Second Cañon at the water's edge. On one side rise abrupt perpendicular walls of gneiss, and on the opposite side, less abrupt, are scattered a few cottonwoods among the mass of rocky debris...
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Album caption: Yellowstone Lake, where the River leaves it. Yellowstone Series 1871. Handwritten notes on album capition: no. 267 – missing photograph – USGS in the National Archives. It's in Wabash College Archives. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 29, Nos. 267, 268: Yellowstone Lake, looking south from where the river leaves it, and showing the larger portion, or the body of the lake. It is some twenty-two miles long, from north to south and about ten to fifteen miles in width from east to west, with an elevation of 7,427 feet above tide-water. In shape it is aptly...