Frank Jay Haynes photographs circa 1879-1891

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Frank Jay Haynes photographs circa 1879-1891

Photographs of the landscape in Yellowstone National Park and in Southeast Alaska, circa 1879-1891

22 photographic prints; 1 box

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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...