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1927 Yellowstone photo album, 1927

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Foshay, F. L.
Title
1927 Yellowstone photo album
Dates
1927
Quantity
.25 linear feet, (1 box containing one string-bound album)
Collection Number
UUS_P0670
Summary
Photo album containing 92 photographs of Yellowstone National Park taken around 1927.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Documents included with the album list the photographer as F. L. Foshay, though this information does not appear on the item itself.

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Content Description

String-bound photo album with embossed cover and attached label with "Yellowstone Park, Wyo. 1927" on front. It contains 92 black and white photographs, each with a title and/or description in typescript. Images depict the Mammoth Hot Springs district, including a permanent camp, hotel, and views clouds and surrounding mountains. Of note are images of visitors milling around Old Faithful, "Mr. Gearjammer" the park bus driver, upper and lower Yellowstone Falls, and Dunraven Pass ranger station. Also includes images of marmots, black bears, and a grizzly bear with quadruplet cubs.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the 1927 Yellowstone photo album must be obtained from the Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Section Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: 1927 Yellowstone photo album USU_P0670. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0670, USUSCA.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

These materials were purchased from Back of Beyond Books in 2019.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Photo album

    • Description: Mammoth Permanent Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 01
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Lodge Building at Mammoth Camp-Sheep Mtn. and Snowy Range
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 02
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Mammoth Permanent Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 03
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Clouds from Mammoth Permanent Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 04
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: View up Lava Creek from Mammoth Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 05
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Looking Up Lava Creek from Mammoth Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 06
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Sheep Mountain From Snow Pass Trail to Electric Peak
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 07
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: On Snow Pass Trail to Electric Peak
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 08
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs, Note Auto in Center for Idea of Size
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 09
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 10
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 11
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 12
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 13
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 14
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 15
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Top of Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 16
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel From Jupiter Terrace
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 17
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone Park. As Seen from the Top of Jupiter Terrace.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 18
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Liberty Cap-Old and New Hotels at Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 19
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Jupiter Terrace-Mammoth Hot Springs
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 20
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Overflow From Jupiter Terrace - Mammoth Hot Springs Capitol Hill in Middle Center - Mt. Everts on Right Sheep Mtn. on Left-Snowy Range on the Sky Line
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 21
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Old Faithful Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 22
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Old Faithful Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 23
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Old Faithful Geyser - Yellowstone National Park
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 24
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Riverside Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 25
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Riverside Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 26
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Riverside Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 27
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Riverside Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 28
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Iron Creek - Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 29
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Three Sisters Hot Springs at Old Faithful
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 30
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Boiling Paint Pots - Canyon Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 31
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Punch Bowl Hot Spring
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 32
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: The Economic Geyser - It Wastes No Water
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 33
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Daisy Geyser - Yellowstone Park - Graceful pose by "Mr Gearjammer" driver of park bus #152 Which was 12 years old in 1927 - A white motor bus - used every year of the 12 and still going strong.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 34
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Joining the Drys - Daisy Geyser - Yellowstone
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 35
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: The Sawmill Geyser - It Makes a Noise Like One Note the Petrified Stump
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 36
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Grotto Geyser
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 37
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: The Black Growler Geyser - Norris Geyser Basin
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 38
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Uncle Sam's Cloud Factory - The Upper Geyser Basin
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 39
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Lower or Norris Geyser Basin - Where the Lid of Hades is Thin
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 40
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Upper (Old Faithful) Geyser Basin-Yellowstone
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 41
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Upper (Old Faithful) Geyser Basin-Yellowstone
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 42
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Up a Tree on Observation Rock at Old Faithful
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 43
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Forest in Yellowstone National Park
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 44
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Fire Hole River From Our Cabin at Old Faithful
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 45
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Fringed Gentians and Asters on Nature Trail at Old Faithful
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 46
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Gibon River Falls
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 47
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Kepler Cascades - Yellowstone National Park
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 48
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Looking Across Yellowstone Lake Toward the Absaroka Range, Wyo.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 49
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: View from our Cabin at Yellowstone Lake
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 50
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Looking Across Yellowstone Lake Toward the Absaroka Range, Wyo.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 51
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Looking Across Yellowstone Lake Toward the Absaroka Range. Sage Brush in the Foreground.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 52
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Lake, From Lake Camp, Yellowstone National Park.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 53
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: The Bird Jockey.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 54
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: A Chilly August Day at the Dunraven Pass Ranger Station
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 55
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Fumeroles at Canyon Camp - Yellowstone Park. Mt. Dunraven and Mt. Washburn on Sky Line.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 56
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Rhyolite Rock Decomposed the Chalk by Hot Springs Near Canyon Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 57
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Chittenden Bridge - Yellowstone River
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 58
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Canyon Bridge - Yellowstone River
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 59
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Upper Yellowstone Falls - 109 Feet High as Seen from our Cabin
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 60
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Lower Falls of the Yellowstone - 308 Feet
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 61
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone River Above the Falls
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 62
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Crystal Falls across Yellowstone Canyon from our Cabin at Canyon Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 63
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Lower Yellowstone Falls - 308 Feet
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 64
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Falls from Canyon Rim
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 65
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Falls and Canyon from Artists Point
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 66
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Falls and Canyon from Artists Point
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 67
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Falls and Canyon from Artists Point
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 68
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Falls and Canyon from Artists Point
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 69
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: View Down Yellowstone Canyon from Artists Point
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 70
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: View Down Yellowstone Canyon
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 71
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: "Witches Broom", Parasitic Growth on Pine Trees. Yellowstone National Park
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 72
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: The King of the Marmots - Lake Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 73
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: [untitled] Woman with Marmots
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 74
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Yellowstone Marmots
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 75
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Winter Hibernators are Hungry All Summer
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 76
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: The Empty Bag
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 77
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Black and Brown Bear Lunching with a Flock of Ravens Canyon Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 78
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Grizzly Bears Lunching with a Flock of Ravens-Canyon Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 79
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Mrs. Marie Grizzly Bear and Quadruplets Pete and Repeat-Kate and Duplicate. Canyon Camp, Yellowstone National Park.
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 80
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Soda Crackers are Allowed on Bruin's Diet
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 81
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Bruin Empties All the Rubbish Boxes
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 82
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Going Somewhere
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 83
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Anticipation
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 84
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Expectation
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 85
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Satisfaction
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 86
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Recuperation
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 87
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Cabin M20 at Mammoth Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 88
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: "Home" at Old Faithful
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 89
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: "Home" at Lake Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 90
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: "Home" at Canyon Camp
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 91
      Location: Photo album
    • Description: Wind River Canyon - Wyoming
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 1, Item 92
      Location: Photo album

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Subject Terms

  • National Parks

Geographical Names

  • Yellowstone National Park--Photographs.

Finding aid created by Ruthie Huskinson, Heather Housley, and Daniel Davis
2025

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