Inventory of Photographs From the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, For the Years 1869 to 1873
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The Bancroft Library
2020
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Note
Item list created from pre-existing typescript listing, without verification against originals.
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1873 / taken by William Henry Jackson
Creator:
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Creator:
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Identifier/Call Number: ff/F594.J27 VAULT
Physical Description:
110 photographs
in 4 portfolios
: albumen prints on mounts
; prints between 37 x 30 cm and 54 x 43 cm
Date (inclusive): approximately 1869-1873
Abstract: Photographs taken in the American West as part of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the
library's online catalog.
Conditions Governing Access
RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Organization of the Collection
This collection is organized in 4 portfolios, referred to as "volumes".
Biographical / Historical
William Henry Jackson was the official photographer of the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories between 1870 and 1876,
under the leadership of Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden.
Scope and Content
Chiefly large format landscapes, with some portraits of Native Americans and survey party members, taken in the American West
as part of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, known as the Hayden Survey. Locations include many
views in the vicinities of Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as well as Utah, New Mexico, Montana
Territory, and Idaho.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Photographs from the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1873, F594.J27,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration
Colorado -- Photographs
Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs
Montana -- Photographs
Idaho -- Photographs
Utah -- Photographs
Wyoming -- Photographs
Indians of North America
Albumen prints
Mammoth plates
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
volume 1, item 1
Hot springs, on Gardiner's River
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 224. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 2
Looking down upon Gardiner's River
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 229. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 3
Mud puffs, Lower Fire Hole Basin
1872
Note
Photographer's number: 432. 1872 series.
volume 1, item 4
Extinct Soda Springs Basin--Bear River
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 316. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 5
Hot springs come in Yellowstone Lake
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 275. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 6
Cap of Liberty, distant view
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 226. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 7
Cap of Liberty, near view
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 227. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 8
Large spring upon summit
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 218. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 9
Mt. Hayden, one of the three Tetons
1872
Note
Photographer's number: 419. 1872 series.
volume 1, item 10
Group of springs on summit
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 223. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 11
Group of springs on summit
1871
volume 1, item 12
[Hot springs formations]
1871?
volume 1, item 13
[Hot springs formations]
1871?
volume 1, item 14
Group of lower basins
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 214. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 15
"Hot springs formations, Montana 1872"
1872
Note
1872 series. Title with date from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 16
Crater of the Mud Geyser
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 263. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 17
Mud puffs
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 277. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 18
[Sulphur Spring]
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 260. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 19
Crater of the Grotto
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 297. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 20
Crater of the Castle Geyser
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 294. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 21
Crater of Castle Geyser
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 295. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 22
Mud geyser in action
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 264. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 23
Crater of Giant geyser
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 296. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 24
Mud Spring at Crater Hills
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 261. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 25
Extinct hot spring in the east fork of the Yellowstone
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 305. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 26
Crater of the Architectural Geyser, Lower Fire Hole Basin
1872
Note
Photographer's number: 433. 1872 series.
volume 1, item 27
Mammoth Hot Springs, Gardiner's River [Yellowstone]
1872
volume 1, item 28
Grotto in eruption, Fire Hole Basin
1872?
Note
Photographer's number: 298. [1872 series?]
volume 1, item 29
Sulphur Spring, Sulphur Mountains
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 260. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 30
Yellowstone Lake, bird eye view from south east arm
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 279. 1871 series.
volume 1, item 31
"Prof. Hayden" [in ms.] [Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden]
1871 or 1872?
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 32
"Mrs Hayden in camp at Ogden Utah" [in ms.] [Includes Hayden, Mr. Stephenson, Professor Bradley]
1872?
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 33
"Tent at Salt Lake, Utah" [in ms.]
1872?
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 34
"Mess No 1. Lower Geyser Basin" [in ms on verso. Individuals Identified]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 35
"The boys at table, named the Alligator Mess" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 36
"Packing grub" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 38
[Indian portrait, unidentified]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 39
"Shoshone Indians" [in ms]
Note
Photographer's number: 101.
volume 1, item 40
"Young Indians, message carriers" [in ms]
Note
Photographer's number: 361. Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 41
"Apache" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 42
"Apache" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 43
"Old Indian" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 44
"Pottery maker, New Mexico" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 45
"New Mexico" [in ms. (Indian portrait)]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 46
[Indian man, holding gun, and Indian woman]
volume 1, item 47
"Pueblo woman" [in ms]
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 48
Young bears
1872
Note
Photographer's number: 391. 1872 series.
volume 1, item 49
"Survey office, 1873" [in ms]
1873
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 1, item 50
Smithsonian Institution, photographed by W.H. Holmes
volume 2, item 1
Upper basins, hot springs on Gardiner's River [Yellowstone]
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 217. 1871 series.
volume 2, item 2
"Hot springs formations" [in ms]
1871
volume 2, item 3
Upper basins
1871
Note
Photographer's number: 216. 1871 series. Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 2, item 4
[Hot springs formations]
1871?
volume 2, item 5
[Section of lake?]
1871?
Note
Photographer's number: 276.
volume 2, item 6
"Yellowstone Falls" [in ms]
1871?
Note
Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 2, item 7
Upper Twin Lake, Sawatch Range
1870
Note
Photographer's number: 89. 1870 series.
volume 2, item 8
Mystic Lake, M.T.
1872
Note
1872 series.; Cf. no.34-35
volume 2, item 9
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
1872
volume 2, item 10
Cascade, Middle Fork of the Gallatin, M.T.
1872
volume 2, item 11
"Survey camp at Fort Hall, Idaho,1872" [in ms]
1872
Note
1872. Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 2, item 12
Meeting of the U.S. Geological Survey, Fire Hole Basin, [names of individuals on back]
1872?
volume 3, item 2
Camp on Mystic Lake
1872
Note
1872 series, number 36?
volume 3, item 3
[Broad valley, mountains in distance]
1872?
volume 3, item 4
Camp near Ogden, Utah
1872
Note
1872 series, number 1?
volume 3, item 5
Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak
1872
Note
1872 series,number 365?
volume 3, item 6
"Survey tent, Salt Kale, 1872" [in ms.] [Salt Lake?]
1872
Note
1872 series. Title from manuscript notation on item.
volume 3, item 7
Colorado City, Cheyenne Mtn.
1872
volume 3, item 8
Pikes Peak Range, Colorado
1873
volume 3, item 9
Middle Creek, near Mount Blackmore M.Y. [M.T.? Montana Territory]
1872
volume 3, item 10
"The Teton Mtns. Wyoming" [in ms]
1872
volume 3, item 11
Cap of Liberty, Mammoth Hot Springs
1872
volume 3, item 12
Tower Falls
1872
Note
1872 series, number 23?
volume 3, item 13
The Trail in West Gallatin Canyon
1872
Note
1872 series, number 44?
volume 3, item 14
Arched Falls, foot of Mt. Blackmore, M.T.
1872
volume 3, item 15
Bridger Canyon, near Ft. Ellis
1872
volume 3, item 16
Great Falls of the Yellowstone
1872
volume 3, item 17
Moraines on Clear Creek, Valley of the Arkansas, Colorado
1873
volume 3, item 18
"Mt Hayden on the Grand Teton Mts Wyoming" [in ms]
1872?
volume 3, item 19
Hot Springs and Castle Geyser
1872
volume 3, item 20
Castle and hot springs
1872
Note
Photographer's number: 438. 1872 series.
volume 3, item 21
Crater of the Grand Geyser
1872
Note
Photographer's number: 108. c.f. 1872 series, number 444?
volume 3, item 22
Upper Fire Hole, from Old Faithful
1872?
volume 3, item 23
Mammoth hot springs, on Gardiner's River
1872?
volume 4, item 1
Head of the St. Vrain
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 48. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 2
James' and Parry's Peaks. Colorado or Front Range
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 60. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 3
Gray's Peak
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 65. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 4
"Summit of Rocky Mts. in Colorado" [in ms.]
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 67. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 5
"Summts of the Tocky [Rocky] Mts. 1873" [in ms]
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 68. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 6
[Last section of panorama of Front Range, Colorado]
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 70. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 7
Eroded sandstones, Monument Park, Colorado
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 72. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 8
Gateway of the Garden of the Gods, Colorado
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 74. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 9
Cathedral Spires, Garden of the Gods
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 75. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 10
Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 78. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 11
South Park, Mt. Bross, Buffalo Peaks
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 79. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 12
Quandary Peak, Blue River range in distance, north from the summit of Mt. Lincoln
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 82. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 13
Buffalo Peaks
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 85. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 14
Mt.Harvard, view down the Arkansas, from the mouth of Clear Creek, Colorado
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 90. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 15
[Second in panorama over the summits of the Sawatch Range]
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 93. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 16
Treasury Mtn, National Range, Colorado
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 100. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 17
Mountain of the Holy Cross
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 106. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 18
Roches Moutonnies near the Mountain of the Holy Cross
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 107. 1873 series.
volume 4, item 19
Mountain of the Holy Cross
1873
Note
Photographer's number: 106. 1873 series.; variant print.