Fort Washakie photograph collection, 1880-1890 (bulk 1883).

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Fort Washakie photograph collection, 1880-1890 (bulk 1883).

Nine albumen photographic prints taken in or around Fort Washakie on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Some, if not all, of the images were taken by Frank Jay Haynes in 1883. The photographs show buildings, military personnel, freighting, and two views of the Little Wind River.

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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...