Carroll T. Hobart papers 1871-1904

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Carroll T. Hobart papers 1871-1904

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The papers document Carroll T. Hobart's involvement in the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad through correspondence, photographs, printed material, and documents. The correspondence consists mostly of Hobart's business correspondence. Principal correspondents include his wife Alice, his contractor brother Charles F. Hobart, and T. F. Oakes and Robert Harris of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The photographs include images of Yellowstone National Park by F. Jay Haynes, William Henry Jackson, and Carleton Watkins, in stereographs, cabinet cards and unmounted albumen prints. The papers also include documents and financial papers relating to the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad, two pen-and-ink maps, one of them a plat map of Cinnabar, Montana, and two office journals from 1881-1882.

Total Boxes: 11 (incl. 2 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 2 broadsides; Linear Feet: 7.31

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349327

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hobart, Charles F.

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Hobart, Carroll T.

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Carroll T. Hobart, Northern Pacific Railroad Superintendent and manager of the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company. From the description of Carroll T. Hobart papers, 1871-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702164074 ...

Oakes, Thomas F.

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Hobart, Alice M.

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Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

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Renowned photographer of Western landscapes, employed by the United States Geological Survey and commercial enterprises to document wilderness areas and Native American cultures. From the description of Colorado Views [picture], ca. 1870-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 46460710 Official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories conducted by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. From the description of Papers, 1851-1878. (Duke University Library). ...

Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921

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F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), a photographer who traveled extensively in the West, was best known for his early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. In the 1870s and 1880s, Haynes operated studios in Moorhead, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, and St. Paul, Minnesota. As the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, he maintained the "Haynes Palace Studio," a special railroad car equipped as a mobile photography studio. In 1891, when tourist travel to Alaska was on the rise, Hayne...

Oakes, Thomas F.

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Hobart, Alice M.

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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These documents are duplicate copies from the papers of George A. Brackett, now part of the Northern Pacific Railroad collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. From the description of Papers. 1864-1914. (Tri-College Library). WorldCat record id: 18832082 Isaac "Ike" Gravelle was born in Canada in October 1871. He came to the United States in 1886. He was sent to the Montana State Prison in May 1891 on a conviction for horse stealing. After his release in 1893 he worked...

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Watkins was a pioneer California photographer, most well known for his large-format photographs. From the description of Views of Thurlow Lodge by Carleton Watkins: photograph album, circa 1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510599 An American landscape photographer, Carleton E. Watkins was noted for his views of the Pacific Northwest and Yosemite. From the description of Carleton E. Watkins Collection. [1879]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); ...

Harris, Robert, 1830-1894

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Hobart, Carroll T.

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Carroll T. Hobart was a Northern Pacific Railroad Superintendent and manager of the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company early in the history of commercial enterprises in Yellowstone Park. Hobart had served as a railroad superintendent for at least ten years when he was made Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park Branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. Shortly after this he formed an improvement company with two other men, Henry F. Douglas, a merchant of Fort Yates, Dakota ...

Yellowstone Park Improvement Company.

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Hobart, Charles F.

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