F. Jay Haynes photograph collection [graphic]. [1870s-1890s]

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F. Jay Haynes photograph collection [graphic]. [1870s-1890s]

The images in the Haynes collection came from a variety of sources over many years. The collection has been organized into fifteen files by geographic location in North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota. The North Dakota files include Jamestown (12 images), Badlands (17), Fargo (42), Bismarck (4), Dalrymple farms (3) and the Grandin farms (3). There are 17 views of Yellowstone National Park, 3 of Brainerd, Minn., as well as of railroad construction (8), and Northern Pacific Railroad Co. (4), as well as his studio railroad car, and his Fargo studio. The Fargo images were printed from 4x5 copy negatives that are also in the collection.

61 film negatives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7019823

North Dakota State University Library

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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...

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...