Archives West Finding Aid

Correspondence 1876-1923, estate papers, diary, scrapbook. The collection is comprised primarily of the letters of F. Jay Haynes to his wife during business trips, providing a private insight into an important 19th century American photography business and concessionaire's businesses in Yellowstone Park and its attendant frustrations. Later correspondence covers the period after FJH's death in 1921 and the settlement of the estate. Letters from other family members are also included. The files after 1921 primarily contain information on her financial legacy from the FJH estate and letters from son Jack E. Haynes about the Yellowstone concession business. The collection includes a small file of letters to Lily's older sister, Loa Jackson, and a diary which has widely scattered autobiographical entries, most about family matters, husbands travelling, church activity with interleaved summary notes about travel, photography, and business activities in YNP circa 1883-1894. The collection also includes a scrapbook of clippings from Fargo, ND, newspapers consisting of poetry, Haynes advertisements and news items, miscellaneous humor and anecdotes, and descriptions of Yellowstone Park. Indexed by JEH.

Related Material: F. Jay Haynes' papers, Collection 1500, include relatively little personal or family information except in the context of business operations. Lily's surviving letters to her husband, F. Jay Haynes, are filed chronologically in the general correspondence in Collection 1500. The correspondence file of son Jack E. Haynes, Collection 1504, contains information on and correspondence with his mother and family members, and files relating to JEH's management of Lily's income after FJH's death (box 12-14). Collection 1504 also houses additional papers on both the FJH and LVH estates in correspondence from Lily to Jack. Most family information is located in the Isabel Haynes papers, Collection 1505, but is limited somewhat to the period after her marriage to Jack in 1930.