Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections
F. Jay Haynes papers
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
1500
12 linear feet
1870-1922
bulk 1885-1916
The F. Jay Haynes Papers consist of correspondence and business records related to F. Jay Haynes's photography and transportation companies. Includes negative registers 1881-1891 and account books; bills and statements 1881-1882, supply orders 1902; photograph customer orders 1886-1887; business correspondence 1876-1914; promissory notes 1879-1899. Haynes Palace Car records include negative registers 1895-1896. Also includes records relating to Yellowstone National Park business and business records from Monida and Yellowstone and Yellowstone-Western stage companies, and the Cody-Sylvan Pass Motor Company.
Collection materials are in English
This collection is open for research.
Donated by Isabel Haynes and the Haynes Foundation in 1977.
In series by general topic, thereunder roughly chronological, thereunder in folders by record type or topic.
Roughly half of the F. Jay Haynes papers formed sections in, or were scattered through, son Jack E. Haynes' research files during the latter's lifetime. During initial accessioning in 1978 the entire collection was refoldered and partially reordered. Since original order was irretrievably lost, an artificial order was created grouping topically similar material in two general divisions, thereunder into series: Business papers (subdivided as Photo business and Haynes Studio Palace Car), and Yellowstone National Park business papers (subdivided into Stage lines, Park photo business), together with the in situ file of F. Jay Haynes personal correspondence gleaned from the papers by Jack E. Haynes, Isabel Haynes, and accessioning staff. With isolated exceptions original folder titles and remaining filing order was destroyed. Upon processing in 1994-1995 the papers (typically single pieces and isolated files) interfiled in the Jack E. Haynes papers were rejoined to roughly six feet of other F. Jay Haynes manuscripts, which had been maintained separately.
As kept originally, F. Jay Haynes or his secretaries occasionally pasted together the corners of incoming and outgoing materials relative to one action into a single group to preserve a record of action taken. When extant, this material remains intact, filed under the date of the top item. If separated, as in most cases, the individual items are filed in their chronological place. Enclosures are kept with cover letters if the two can be matched. Present divisions are obviously artificial, and with the isolated exceptions original folder or piece titles (given in quotes) are supplied by processor, descriptive of material therein.
Other than simple sales from on-site stock, F. Jay Haynes handled most of the Yellowstone Park photo business from his headquarters in Saint Paul. Much information relative to activities stocking and operating his concerns in Yellowstone, and virtually all Park-originated mail orders, and a good bit of news and gossip, are found as he would have handled it, in his general business correspondence. Material in sections on the Haynes Palace Studio Car and photo concessions in Yellowstone National Park are generally limited to operational business records from those concerns. Due to Jack E. Haynes' long custody and use of his father's papers, users should also check the Information and Correspondence Files in Collection 1504 under specific names and topics for information Jack may have gathered.
Unfortunately the Haynes papers are badly incomplete, either through carelessness in filing historical material or the capriciousness of history. Researchers should check the several sections for any possible links between related topics, keeping in mind that topically relevant material is often discovered in unlikely places. For years where a significant amount of material has been divided into particular documents, as "Annual report, 19xx", other years with less material may have documents grouped under a broader heading, as "Finances, 19xx". A note will usually reveal the breadth of material in the latter case. Due to possible references conducted in other business, users will do well to check other sections to locate any mention of a topic, and should continue into the Jack E. Haynes papers to maintain business continuity.
Series 1 Personal Materials
Series 2 Photography Business Records
Series 3 Yellowstone Park Stage-Business Records
Photographer F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921) was one of the 19th century Northwest's best-known individuals. Beginning with a studio business in Moorhead, Minnesota, on the Minnesota-Dakota Territory border, Haynes became well known for his photographs of the great bonanza farms of the 1870s; for his portraits of Indians; his views of the Northern Pacific Rail Road route; and most especially for his successful career as photographer and concessionaire in Yellowstone National Park. Haynes toured the park with his camera every year between 1881 and his death forty years later. First selling photoprints, then pictorial souvenirs, and eventually postcards, Haynes' images were probably the most widely distributed and popularly recognized of any photographer of the American West. Between 1885 and 1905 Haynes also operated a travelling photo studio in a converted Pullman railroad car. This mobility not only made Haynes Palace Studio Car one of the best known features of the Northern Pacific, but also gave him camera access to sights from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound.
Haynes' base of operations began in Moorhead, Minnesota, was moved to Fargo, North Dakota, in 1879 and in 1889 to Saint Paul, Minnesota There he maintained a central studio and photo printing operation, and operated winter offices for his Studio Car and Yellowstone Park photography and transportation concessions, the Monida and Yellowstone and later Yellowstone-Western Stage companies. The Studio Car ceased travelling after the 1904 season and Haynes severed his ties to the Northern Pacific to court ties to the Union Pacific, a working relationship that fed the growing stage line he loved. When the Secretary of the Interior cancelled the MY concession lease in September, 1913, as a result of a suit, Haynes regrouped and was able to have a new lease renegotiated by the end of the year. It was in force until the consolidation of Park concessions in 1916, the year that Haynes retired and sold his business to his son Jack Ellis Haynes. Yellowstone's "Grand Old Man" still made annual trips to the Park until heart failure claimed him in 1921.
For more complete biographical information, see Freeman Tilden, Following the
Frontier with F. Jay Haynes (New York: Knopf, 1964), and F. Jay Haynes, Photographer (Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press, 1981).
Material in the F. Jay Haynes papers originated in several businesses with operations scattered in offices diverse locations. Despite the volume of material that survives it is obvious that much material is now missing or was never kept. No series or file should be considered more than representative of Haynes' activities in that business. Much of the bulk, including the bound ledgers now in Collections 1501 and 1502, was kept in Haynes' Saint Paul studio until his death in 1921. Son Jack Ellis Haynes came to possess his father's papers in several stages: first when he assumed the Yellowstone photography concession in 1915, when he bought from his father the entire family photography businesses in 1916, then as executor of the estate upon F. Jay Haynes' death.
In 1945 Jack E. Haynes moved the Haynes business from St. Paul to Bozeman, Montana. He closed the Minnesota studio and transferred the records and negatives to the new Haynes Studios Inc. warehouse. In the early 1950s, while beginning to compile a book of general Yellowstone history, Haynes began to rearrange F. Jay Haynes's business and personal papers, interfiling much of it into his own research files and occasionally adding thereto. Jack planted most of his father's papers (primarily correspondence) and stage company documentation, as he did his own working correspondence, within his own files in alphabetical order under "Haynes, F. Jay." Jack's death in 1962 halted work on his book. With permission of Isabel Haynes, the combined research files were used by Aubrey Haines for producing a work similar to Jack's book, a two-volume narrative history completed in 1977,
The Yellowstone Story.
In 1977 Jack's widow Isabel Haynes deeded the family's collected library with the business and personal records, family photographs, and research files (including the materials in this collection) through the Haynes Foundation to the Montana State University Libraries. Memorabilia and the 20,000-negative collection and records relating to it (registers, copyright documents, etc.) were given to the Montana Historical Society.
During the initial accessioning of the Haynes Family Collection in 1978, the collection was separated into eight collections to reflect the papers of individual members of the Haynes family and records of the companies they operated. The collections were each processed separately in the 1990s. Printed and published items such as books, maps, and pamphlets from the Haynes library have been cataloged individually within the MSU Special Collections library.
This collection was processed in 1995, and additional edits were made 2015 August 25.
Additional manuscripts and records relating to members of the Haynes family and Haynes family businesses have been separated into the following collections at Montana State University:
Haynes Studio and Haynes Picture Shops records, 1878-1932 (1501)
Yellowstone-Western Stage Company records, 1898-1916 (1502)
Lily Snyder Jay Haynes papers, 1876-1928 (1503)
Jack E. Haynes papers and Haynes Inc. records Haynes papers, 1915-1965 (1504)
Isabel Haynes papers, 1866-1992 (1505)
Lida Haynes papers, 1910-1952 (1506)
Haynes Family Photographs, 1866-1969 (1507)
The Montana Historical Society also holds a portion of photographs and records from the Haynes photography business:
24,000 photographs from the Haynes Foundation Collection are cataloged individually in MSH Photograph Collection
Frank Jay Haynes papers, 1876-1962 (MC 146)
F. Jay Haynes Architectural Drawings collection, circa 1890-1930 (MC 86)
Personal materials; business correspondence and photo orders; operational papers from the Yellowstone, Saint Paul, Fargo studios and Haynes Palace Studio Car; operational papers from several stage companies. Personal information forms only a small part of the extant papers. The bulk of material is grouped around the business activities of Haynes' photography studios, especially customer order and supply correspondence, and the business records of the Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company and the Yellowstone-Western Stage Company. Small sections of material from the Yellowstone Park Stage Company and the Montana and Yellowstone Park Transfer Company are available, as well as a box of information on the short-lived Cody-Sylvan Pass Motor Company, the Park's first motorized transportation line.
Records from the various business activities of the firm F. Jay Haynes (including F. Jay Haynes and Brother) constitute about half the bulk of the collection. General business records including bills, invoices, and supplies orders are found here and are paralleled by invoice ledgers found in Collection 1501. The scope of Haynes business as a purveyor of photographs is represented only in a not-quite-statistical sample. Routine photography orders for the year roughly between October 1886 and November 1887 are the only reasonably complete files of this record type, but give a fair indication of the scope and volume of business. Researchers using the business correspondence should compare the invoices and bills found in other sections of the collection as well as in the bound books in Collection 1501. The activities of the Haynes Palace Studio Car are related in the narrative reports furnished to Haynes by his operators, and business activity through the mobile studio can be glimpsed in the "waybills" reporting the negatives taken during a given period. Other records for the car are in the Haynes papers at the Montana Historical Society.
Information from Haynes photographic concession activity in Yellowstone, primarily in the Mammoth studio, is found in the papers, though not as comprehensively as could be wished. Data in this section relates specifically to business; subsistence expenses will be found in the general business papers (except for Yellowstone Park Association bills, which are interfiled in this section). Sales accounts from the stands in the hotels and photo orders taken in the Park for later delivery are also included.
A small section of papers survive from the period of F. Jay Haynes' part-ownership in the Wylie Permanent Camping Company. Haynes had attempted to organize a lodging company similar to the permanent camps and was powerful enough that to keep him from doing so he was allowed to buy out one-third interest in the Wylie Company.
Perhaps the most colorful section of the papers relate to Haynes' most successful Yellowstone ventures, the transportation companies. He became half owner with George Wakefield of the Yellowstone Park Stage Company in 1885, moving tourists between Cinnabar and Mammoth in direct competition with the larger stage lines. Operating without a license the company was barred from the Park and folded. The Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company, organized in 1898 and incorporated in 1900, became the largest stage business in the Park partially due to its connection through the Park's west entrance to the Oregon Short Line Rail Road and consequently to the larger Union Pacific. Due to the loss of his concession over ticket pricing Haynes organized a parallel company under the name Yellowstone-Western Stage Company, recaptured the concession, and bought out the plant of the Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company. Significant topics covered in this section are the 1903 controversy with the Yellowstone Lake Boat Company, the 1912 stock suit and 1913 revocation of the Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company concession, the organization of the YW, and the dissolution of the YW and liquidation of its plant. The bound financial, passenger, and stock ledgers from the MY and YW are found in Collection 1502. Toward the end of the Yellowstone-Western Stage Company section of papers will be found a small collection of materials related to the Cody-Sylvan Pass Motor Company which operated only for the 1915 season transferring passengers between Cody, Wyoming, and Yellowstone Lake. The park's first motorized stage line, it served as the prototype for the 1916 reorganization of the transportation business.
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921--Archives--Archives
F. Jay Haynes (Firm)--Records and correspondence
Haynes Palace Studio Car--Records and correspondence--Records and correspondence
Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company--Records and correspondence
Yellowstone-Western Stage Company--Records and correspondence
Cody-Sylvan Pass Motor Company--Records and correspondence
Yellowstone National Park--History--Sources
Coaching (Transportation)--Yellowstone National Park--History--Sources
Tourism--Yellowstone National Park--History--Sources
Travel--History--Sources
Photography--Minnesota--Business methods--Sources
Photography--Yellowstone National Park--Business methods--Sources
Businesses and Corporations
National Parks
Sports and Recreation
Transportation
Personal Materials
1
A printed listing of individual folders in box 1 is located in the reading room of Special Collections.
Receipts, etc.
1877-1884
1
1
Miscellaneous cards, tickets, etc.
1877-1880
1
2-3
Programs and menus
1
4
Piano purchase correspondence
1880
1
5
Fargo Car Wheel and Iron Works stock
1882
1
6
Personal investments, See also 2:27
1917-1919
1
7
Personal investments
1920
1
8
Correspondence with sister, Ella Henderson
1915-1917
1
9
Safe deposit box receipts
1912, 1917-1918
1
10
Liberty Loan correspondence
1917
1
11
George O. Haynes CD
1917
1
12
Personal account cheques and balances, See also 10:9, 14-17
1919-1921
1
13
Estate chequebook
1
14
Insurance
1877
1
15-16
Miscellaneous notes, mortgages, deeds
1880-1890
1
17
Vacation souvenirs
1909-1910
1
18
Accident insurance
1916
1
19
Life insurance
1920
1
20
Tax receipts
1897-1920
1
21
Taxes
1913
1
22
Taxes
1914
1
23
Taxes
1915
1
24
Taxes
1916
1
25
Taxes
1917
1
26
Taxes
1918
1
27
Taxes
1919
1
28
Taxes
1920
1
29
Taxes, Estate
1920-1921
1
30
Regarding refund of 1918 income tax, F. Jay Haynes
1
31
Taxes, Estate
1922
1
32
Membership cards
1908-1920
1
33
Salt Lake Transportation Club
1916
1
34
Receipts for fur coat storage
1917-1919
1
35
Southwest U.S. vacation itinerary
1918
1
36
Memorial card
1921
1
37
Photography Business Records
2
A printed listing of individual folders in boxes 2-16 is located in the reading room of Special Collections.
Notebooks
1
Advertisements in the St. Paul Dispatch (clippings)
1896
2
2
Diary
1873
2
3
Diary
1874
2
4
Diary
1876
2
5
Diary
1909
2
6
Diary
1913
2
7
Pocket notebook
1916
2
8
Pocket notebook
1917
2
9
Incidents and sketches
1874 May-1877 January
2
10
Oshkosh view work by F. Jay Haynes for W.M. Lockwood, Ripon, Wis.
1875
2
11
Notebook [photo accounts]
1876
2
12
Negative field register
1881
2
13
Negative field register
1883
2
14
Negative field register
1883
2
15
Negative field register
1884
2
15A
Northern Pacific Views, Pacific Coast trip, [Negative register]
1885 May
2
16
Negative field register
1888
2
17
Negative field register
1888 May-June
2
17A
Negative field registers, Yellowston National Park
1891
2
18
Negative field registers, Yellowston National Park
undated
2
19-20
South Dakota World's Fair views
1892
2
21
Negative field register
1895
2
22
Account ledger, Photo trip to Detroit area
1874
2
23
Ledger
1880
2
24
Sales diary [sewing machines]
1870
2
25
Deposits, St. Paul
circa 1900s
2
26
Investments
1918
2
27
Record of investment holdings
1919-1920
2
28
Bills and Statements
2
Bills and statements
1879, undated
3
1
Bills and statements
1880 January-August
3
2
Bills and statements
1880 September-December
3
3
Bills and statements
1881 January-July
3
4
Bills and statements
1881 August-December
3
5
Bills and statements
1882 January
3
6
Bills and statements
1882 February-March
3
7
Bills and statements
1882 April-May
3
8
Bills and statements
1882 June-July
3
9
Bills and statements
1882 August-September
3
10
Bills and statements
1882 October-December
3
11
F. Jay Haynes billing statements
1883 April-July
3
12
F. Jay Haynes billing statements
1884 November, 1892 October
3
13
Business licenses
1885-1886
3
14
Supply orders
1902 February-April
3
15
Supply orders
1902 May-June
3
16
Supply orders
1902 July-September
3
17
Supply orders
1902 October-December
3
18
Supply orders
1903 January-March
3
19
Supply orders
1903 April-September
3
20
Supply orders
1903 October-December
3
21
Charles Fee orders
3
22
Charles Fee orders
1891
3
23
Charles Fee orders
1892 December-July
3
24
Charles Fee orders
1892 June-January
3
25
Charles Fee orders
1893 December-April
3
26
Charles Fee orders
1893 March-January
3
27
Charles Fee orders
1894
3
28
Photo Orders
3
Photo orders
1883 February, 1885 September, 1886 January-July
4
1
Photo orders
1886 September
4
2
Photo orders
1886 October 1-7
4
3
Photo orders
1886 October 8-14
4
4
Photo orders
1886 October 15-21
4
5
Photo orders
1886 October 22-28
4
6
Photo orders
1886 October 29-31
4
7
Photo orders
1886 November 1-7
4
8
Photo orders
1886 November 8-14
4
9
Photo orders
1886 November 15-21
4
10
Photo orders
1886 November 22-30
4
11
Photo orders
1886 December 1-7
4
12
Photo orders
1886 December 8-14
4
13
Photo orders
1886 December 15-21
4
14
Photo orders
1886 December 22-27
4
15
Photo orders
1886 December 28-31
4
16
Photo orders
1887 January 1-7
5
1
Photo orders
1887 January 8-14
5
2
Photo orders
1887 January 15-21
5
3
Photo orders
1887 January 22-31
5
4
Photo orders
1887 February 1-7
5
5
Photo orders
1887 February 8-14
5
6
Photo orders
1887 February 15-21
5
7
Photo orders
1887 February 22-28
5
8
Photo orders
1887 March 1-7
5
9
Photo orders
1887 March 8-14
5
10
Photo orders
1887 March 15-21
5
11
Photo orders
1887 March 22-25
5
12
Photo orders
1887 March 26-37
5
13
Photo orders
1887 April 1-7
6
1
Photo orders
1887 April 8-14
6
2
Photo orders
1887 April 15-22
6
3
Photo orders
1887 April 23-30
6
4
Photo orders
1887 May 1-7
6
5
Photo orders
1887 May 9-14
6
6
Photo orders
1887 May 15-25
6
7
Photo orders
1887 May 26-31
6
8
Photo orders
1887 June 1-9
6
9
Photo orders
1887 June 10-17
6
10
Photo orders
1887 June 18-26
6
11
Photo orders
1887 June 27-31
6
12
Photo orders
1887 July 1-8
6
13
Photo orders
1887 July 8-15
6
14
Photo orders
1887 July 16-24
6
15
Photo orders
1887 July 25-31
6
16
Photo orders
1887 August 1-7
7
1
Photo orders
1887 August 8-14
7
2
Photo orders
1887 August 15-23
7
3
Photo orders
1887 August 24-31
7
4
Photo orders
1887 September 1-7
7
5
Photo orders
1887 September 8-15
7
6
Photo orders
1887 September 16-26
7
7
Photo orders
1887 September 27-30
7
8
Photo orders
1887 October 1-10
7
9
Photo orders
1887 October 11-17
7
10
Photo orders
1887 October 18-24
7
11
Photo orders
1887 October 25-31
7
12
Photo orders
1887 November 1-7
7
13
Photo orders
1887 November 8-14
7
14
Photo orders
1887 November 15-21
7
15
Photo orders
1887 November 22-30
7
16
Photo orders
1889 July-August, December 1-14
7
17
Photo orders
1889 December 15-31
7
18
Photo orders
1890 January
7
19
Photo orders
1890 February
7
20
Photo orders
circa 1889 December-1890 February
7
21
Catalogue orders
1889
7
22
Photo orders
1891-1905
7
23
Catalogue orders
circa 1890s
7
24
Business Correspondence
4
Business correspondence
1876-1881
8
1
Business correspondence
1883
8
2
Mail registry receipts
1883
8
2A
Business correspondence
1884
8
3
Business correspondence
1885
8
4
NPRR rail lease contract
1885
8
5
Business correspondence
1886 September-December
8
6
Business correspondence
1887 January-March
8
7
Business correspondence
1887 April
8
8
Business correspondence
1887 May
8
9
Business correspondence
1887 June
8
10
Business correspondence
1887 July
8
11
Business correspondence
1887 August
8
12
Business correspondence
1887 September
8
13
Business correspondence
1887 October-December
8
14
Business correspondence
1889 January-November
8
15
Business correspondence
1889 December
8
16
Receipts, etc.
1889
8
17
Yellowstone Park Association hotel sales agreement
1889 September 15
8
18
Business correspondence
1890-1891
8
19
Undated notes
circa 1890
8
20
Undated clippings
circa 1887-1891
8
21
Business correspondence
1890 January-June
8
22
Minnesota National Guard Regiment honorary membership; Société Scientifique Européenne correspondence, See also 2:1.
1892
8
23
Business correspondence
1892-1893 June
8
24
Business correspondence
1893
8
25
Business correspondence
1894
8
26
Yellowstone Park Association hotel sales agreement
1894 May 19
8
27
Business correspondence
1895
8
28
Freight bills
1895
8
29
Yellowstone Park Association hotel sales agreement
1895 March 18
8
30
Business correspondence
1896
8
31
Freight bills
1896
8
32
Business correspondence
1897
8
33
Business correspondence
1898
8
34
Business correspondence
1899
8
35
Business correspondence
1900
8
36
Business correspondence
1901
9
1
Business correspondence
1902
9
2
Business correspondence
1903
9
3
Business correspondence
1904
9
4
Business correspondence
1905
9
5
Business correspondence
1907
9
6
Business receipts
1907
9
7
Business correspondence
1908
9
8
Business correspondence
1909
9
9
Business correspondence
1910
9
10
Business correspondence, See also Collection 1504 43:11
1911
9
11
Business correspondence
1912
9
12
List of Alaskan negative numbers
undated
9
13
1912-13 Catalogue (Numerical)
9
14
Business correspondence, Louis Glaser Gropische Kunstanstalt
1913 January-1914 January
9
15
Business correspondence
1913 February-April
9
16
Business correspondence
1913 June-July
9
17
Business correspondence
1913 August-November
9
18
Park business report
1913
9
19
Business correspondence
1914 January-March
9
20
Business correspondence
1914 May-December
9
21
YNP photo concession correspondence
1914
9
22
YNP lease agreements
1914
9
23
Data relative to the application of F. Jay Haynes for renewal of photographic concession in Yellowstone National Park
1914 April 8
9
24
Park business financial statement
1914
9
25
Park business financial statement
1915
9
26
Business correspondence
1915-1917
9
27
Business correspondence
1920
9
28
Transportation passes, See also 17:32
1879-1915
9
29
Cheque and Stub Registers
5
Studio account? (6500-6599)
1894 April 5-May 10
10
1
Studio account? (6600-6699)
1894 May 10-June 9
10
2
Studio account? (6800-6899)
1894 July 24-September 1
10
3
Studio account? (6900-6999)
1894 September 1-October 10
10
4
Studio account? (7200-7299)
1894 December 29-1895 February 7
10
5
Studio account?, St. Paul
1905 November 15-1906 April 2
10
6
Studio account?, St. Paul
1906 April 6-December 18
10
7
Park account, Gardiner
1906 June 12-October 9
10
8
Personal account? Passbook, Gardiner
1906 June-September
10
9
Studio account?, St. Paul?
1907 November 23-1908 March 27
10
10
Studio account?, St. Paul?
1908 March 28-August 28
10
11
Studio account?, St. Paul?
1908-August 29-December 17
10
12
Park account?, Gardiner?
1906 October 12-27
10
13
Personal account?, Fargo
1879 May 29-[1880] March 2
10
14
Personal account?, Fargo
1880 April 9-1881 July 5
10
15
Personal account?, Fargo
1881 July 7-1882 June 26
10
16
Personal account?, St. Paul, See also 1:13
1905 November 14-1906 April 2
10
17
1879
11
1-2
1880
11
3-4
1881
11
5-7
1882
11
8-10
1878-1882
11
11-14
1893
11
15
1895
11
16-17
1896
11
18-20
1897
11
21-22
1898
11
23
1899
11
24
Haynes Studio Palace Car
6
Studio Car floor plan (blueline drawing) Includes photonegative
1885
25
1
Narrative reports
1886 November-1887 May
12
2
Narrative reports
1887 June-November
12
3
Narrative reports
1898 July-August
12
4
Narrative reports
1899, 1904
12
5
Narrative reports
1889 August-December
12
6
Narrative reports
1890 January-May
12
7
Narrative reports, See also Collection 1501 bk.9
1890 Jun, December, 1891
12
8
Car log
1890 June 11-1891 January 29
12
9
Waybills (weekly negative register), 1-10
1895
12
10
Waybills (weekly negative register), 11-20
1895
12
11
Waybills (weekly negative register), 21-32
1895
12
12
Waybills (weekly negative register), 1-10
1896
12
13
Waybills (weekly negative register), 11-19
1896
12
14
Waybills (weekly negative register), 20-27
1896
12
15
Waybills (weekly negative register), 28-33
1896
12
16
Waybills (weekly negative register)
undated
12
17
Car operation contract
1901 December 8
12
18
Car business forms
12
19
Business licenses
12
20
Advertising bills
1886, 1888
13
1
Cash book
1888
13
2
Expenses
1888
13
3
NPRR bills
1890
13
4
NPRR bills
1891
13
5
NPRR bills
1892
13
6
Bills payable
1892
13
7
Cash report
1892 May 30-June 25
13
8
Cash report
1892 June 27-July 30
13
9
Cash report
1892 August 8-September 3
13
10
Cash report
1892 September 15-24
13
11
NPRR bills
1893 January-July
13
12
NPRR bills
1893 August-December
13
13
Weekly reports
1893 February 26-April 29
13
14
Weekly reports
1893 April 30-June 24
13
15
Weekly reports
1893 June 25-September 30
13
16
Weekly reports
1893 October 1-November 25
13
17
Weekly reports
1895 July 20, August 3
13
18
Daily reports
1896
13
19
Weekly reports
1896 April 25-July 27
13
20
Weekly reports
1896 July 4-August 29
13
21
Weekly reports
1896 September 5-October 31
13
22
Weekly reports
1896 November 7-December 12
13
23
Weekly reports
1898 April 16
13
24
Daily reports
1897, 1900
13
25
Weekly reports
1899 June 3
13
26
Weekly reports
1901 February 2
13
27
Weekly reports
1902 August-November
13
28
Weekly reports
1904 March 26
13
29
Yellowstone National Park Photography Business
7
Ground lease
1884
25
2
Tour party photo order lists
1887
14
2
Bills and statements
1888
14
3
[YPA sales] commission on views [i.e. pictures sold]
1888
14
4
Business correspondence
1891
14
5
YPA accounts
1891 June-August
14
6
YPA accounts
1891 September-October
14
7
Daily sales tallies (probably Mammoth)
1891
14
8
Photo orders
1892
14
9
YPA accounts
1892
14
10
Wylie Permanent Campground Company
8
YPA accounts
1893
14
11
Park Studio sales tabulation and statement to Secretary of the Interior
1893
14
12
Mammoth ground lease renewal
1894
14
13
Correspondence
1895 March-December
14
14
Upper Basin property contract
1896
14
15
Business correspondence
1896
14
16
Bills and accounts
1896
14
17
Shipping receipts
1896
14
18
Mounted Boudoir in Park [photo sales tally]
1896
14
19
Business correspondence, See also Collection 1504 59:5
1897
14
20
Boudoirs for 1897 [YNP photo sales tally]
1897
14
21
YPA bills
1897
14
22
Photo business in Yellowstone Park [statement]
1897
14
23
Hotel sales proposal and agreement
1897
14
24
Business correspondence
1898
14
25
Composite photo/drawing of Madison Junction
14
26
Park view record [photo sales tally]
1898
14
27
Business correspondence
1899
14
28
Business correspondence
1900
14
29
YPA accounts
1901
14
30
Business correspondence
1902
14
31
YPA hotel sales contract
1902
14
32
Business correspondence
1903
14
33
Picture sales in Yellowstone Park, Season 1903
14
34
Price schedule and slide list
1904
15
1
Supply orders
1904 January-April
15
2
Business correspondence
1904 June 1-15
15
3
Business correspondence
1904 June 16-30
15
4
YPA accounts
1904 June 24
15
5
Billed-goods receipts
1904 June
15
6
Business correspondence
1904 July 1-15
15
7
Lease contracts
1904-1913
15
8
Billed-goods receipts
1904 July
15
9
Business correspondence
1904 August 1-15
15
10
Business correspondence
1904 August 16-31
15
11
Billed-goods receipts
1904 August
15
12
Business correspondence
1904 September
15
13
Billed-goods receipts
1904 September
15
14
Business correspondence
1904 October-November
15
15
Business correspondence
1905
15
16
Business correspondence
1906
15
17
Business correspondence
1907-1910
15
18
Park business statement
1910
15
19
Business correspondence
1911
15
20
JEH Upper Basin subsistence account
1911
15
21
Petty cash receipts
1912
15
22
Business correspondence
1912-1913
15
23
Park order due bills
1913
15
24
Upper Basin Studio stock receipts
1913
15
25
YNP freight shipments
1913
15
26
Billed-goods accounts
1913
15
27
Petty cash receipts
1913
15
28
FJH subsistence account with W.A. Hall Co.
1913
15
29
Business correspondence, See also 9:22-26
1915
15
30
Printed rate schedules
1894, 1914
15
31
Park photo orders
1890
16
1
Park photo orders
1890
16
2
Park photo orders
1896
16
3
Park photo orders
1904 June-August
16
4
Printing orders
1904 September-October
16
5
Printing orders
1904 November
16
6
Printing orders
1904 December
16
7
Park photo orders
1908 June-September
16
8
Park photo orders
1912 June-August 7
16
9
Park photo orders
1912 August 8-September
16
10
Share purchase contract
1909
16
11
Correspondence
1911-1916
16
12
Correspondence
1917
16
13
Correspondence regarding [WPCC] notes and stock, between A.L. Smith and FJH. Transcripts supplied by FJH to his lawyer.
1910-1915
16
14
Correspondence
1918
16
15
Weekly summary reports
1911-1912
16
16
Weekly summary reports
1913-1915
16
17
Misc. financial data
1916
16
18
Deed for stock sale to A.W. Miles
1916
16
19
Statement showing gross earnings, expenses, depreciation, profit, dividends and surplus
1909-1916
16
20
Acmegraph/Haynes postcard comparisons
1912
16
21
Yellowstone Park Stage-Business Records
3
A printed listing of individual folders in boxes 17-25 and flatfile is located in the reading room of Special Collections.
Yellowstone Park Stage Company (National Park Line)
1
Yellowstone Park Stage Company (Wakefield & Haynes); George Wakefield bills
1885-1886, 1888-1898
17
1
Monida and Yellowstone Stage Company
2
Concession correpondence
1897 December-1989 May
17
2
MY concession lease
1898 May 28
17
3
Description of route of [MY] stage line: Fountain Hotel to Monida
17
4
Correspondence
1898 June-November
17
5
Lease sites plat map
1898 November 24
25
3
Correspondence
1899 April-December
17
7
Building sites lease
1899 December 19
17
8
Incorporation papers
1900-1903
17
9
Correspondence
1900
17
10
Correspondence, transportation passes
1901
17
11
Exchanged tickets
1901
17
12
Pocket notebook giving rates
1901
17
13
Correspondence, transportation passes
1902 May-October
17
14
Finances and payroll
1902
17
15
Correspondence
1903 January-February
17
16
Correspondence, Henry W. Child to FJH
1903 February 25
17
17
Correspondence, transportation passes
1903 April-December
17
18
Finances
1903
17
20
Yellowstone Park as an attraction to the Oregon Short Line R.R. and connections
1903
17
19
Freight received by rail at Cinnabar and Gardiner ...
1903 September
17
21
Concession sites leases 1903-1907
1903
17
22
Exchanged tickets
1903
17
23
Correspondence, transportation passes
1904 January-September
17
24
Park rates and agreements; correspondence and minutes from a meeting in Chicago
1904, 1903 December 15
17
25
Certificate of amendments to articles of incorporation
1904 March
17
26
Inventories and auditor's statement
1904
17
27
Correspondence
1905 January-June
17
28
Correspondence
1905 July-November
17
29
Statement of W.W. Humphrey account
1899-1905
17
30
Finances and auditor's statements
1905
17
31
Transportation passes
1905
17
32
Correspondence
1906 January-April
18
1
Correspondence
1906 May-June
18
2
Correspondence
1906 August-September
18
3
Letter to [Robert] Duff
circa 1906
18
4
Finances
1906
18
5
Yellowstone National Park [rates] Meeting, 1906 Jan 16
18
6
Monida Office cash account
18
7
Correspondence
1907 January-September
18
8
Finances; transportation passes
1906-1907
18
9
Tourists to Yellowstone Park during the month of June 1907, 1908
18
10
Correspondence
1908 February-October
18
11
Finances
1908
18
12
Advantages to travel through Yellowstone Park from the western entrance by having the hotel located at the junction of Gibbon and Firehole Rivers ...; "How to improve the Service in Yellowstone Park"
18
13
Correspondence
1909 January-March
18
14
Correspondence
1909 April
18
15
Correspondence
1909 May-July
18
16
Correspondence
1909 August-September
18
17
Covell, Earl D. "Report on location and feasibility of construction of a proposed road from Six Mile Post to Yellowstone, Mon."
1909 September
18
18
Correspondence
1909 October-December
18
19
Finances
1909
18
20
"Proposed [OSLRR] depot at Yellowstone," tracing blueline from 1907 draft and revised blueline
1909 March
18
21
Correspondence
18
22
Correspondence
1910 June-August
18
23
Correspondence
1910 September-December
18
24
Finances
1910
18
25
Tables of comparative travel statistics
1899-1911
19
1
Transportation in the Yellowstone National Park, corrected copy
1911
19
2
Correspondence
1911 March, June-September, November
19
3
Finances
1911
19
4
Printed matter proofs
19
5
Horse record
1911
19
6
Statistical summaries
1899-1911
19
7
Bookings
1912
19
8
Correspondence
1912 February-May
19
9
Correspondence, Tower Falls relay station
1912 June
19
10
Tower Falls relay station site and stable plans, see also Collection 1504 59:55
1912 June
25
5
Tour arrangements for W.I. Washburn
1912 July-September
19
12
Correspondence
1912 July-December
19
13
Notes on railroad line to West Yellowstone, Mont. (probably written by or for MY lawyer James R. Hickey)
19
14
Park travel statistics
1912
19
15
YNP lease documents
19
16
OSLRR sales statement for 1911 Jan-Jun
1912 January 10
19
17
OSLRR sales statement for 1911 Jul
1912 May 10
19
18
OSLRR sales statement for 1911 Aug-Dec
1912 June 10
19
19
Financial reports
1912
19
20
Horse record
1912
19
21
Disbursement tallies [expenses]
1912
19
22
Annual reports
1912
19
23
Payroll
1912 June
19
24
Misc. financial notes and receipts
19
25
Bookings
1913
20
1
OSLRR sales statement for 1912
1913 April 24
20
2
Correspondence
1913 January-April
20
3
Correspondence
1913 May
20
4
Correspondence
1913 June
20
5
Correspondence
1913 July
20
6
Correspondence
1913 August 1-22
20
7
Correspondence
1913 August 26-30
20
8
Correspondence
1913 September
20
9
Correspondence
1913 October-December
20
10
Telegram cipher
1913
20
11
Investigation of charges against the MY
1913 June 14
20
12
Recapitulation [of ticket income reporting] 1908-1912
20
13
Bills for legal costs
20
14
Desk and vault seals
1913 July
20
15
"Old Faithful Inn, designed by F. Jay Haynes," blueline front elevation
25
6
Party bookings calendar
1913
20
17
Memo of Park travel, 1911; party-ticket exchanges
20
18
OSLRR sales statement for 1913 Jan-Jun
20
19
OSLRR sales statement for 1913 Jul
20
20
OSLRR sales statement for 1913 Aug
20
21
OSLRR sales statement for 1913 Sep-Dec
20
22
Income tax return
1914 January 20
20
23
Balance sheet and financial report
1913
21
1
Annual report
1913
21
2
Payroll items
1913
21
3
Advertising copy
21
4
Misc. finance items
1913
21
5
Montana and Yellowstone Park Transfer Company
3
Montana & Yellowstone Transfer Company incorporation
1913
21
6
YW lease of Montana & Yellowstone Park Transfer Co. property
1914
21
7
Yellowstone-Western Stage Company
4
Yellowstone-Western Stage Company corporation notices
1913
21
8
Bunkhouse drawings
25
7
Bookings
1914
21
9
Correspondence
1914 January-July
21
10
Correspondence
1914 August-December
21
11
Union Pacific ticket agents' tour thank-you letters
1914
21
14-16
YW logographs
21
17
Copies of printing on hand [YW form samples]
1914
21
18
Statement of operations and surplus account, 1910-1913
21
19
Income tax statement
1914
21
20
Finances and receipts
1914
21
21
Automobiles in Yellowstone Park
1914
21
22
Agreement for sale of [YW] stock, 1914
21
23
Statements and returns
1914
21
24
Chalet Hotel project
1914
21
25
Correspondence
1915 January
21
26
Correspondence
1915 February
21
27
Correspondence
1915 June
21
28
Correspondence
1915 June-September
21
29
Correspondence
1915 October-December
21
30
Transportation concession lease
1915
22
1
Yellowstone park bookings
1915 February 26
22
2
Tour calendar; Tour bookings
1915
22
3
Tour business material
1915
22
4
Cause of delay of passengers at Yellowstone
22
5
Mrs. Louise Hubscher accident at Thumb, 1915 Sep 9
22
6
Stage and hotel schedule [tour packages]
22
7
Memorandum of YNP travel, season of 1915
22
8
Finances
1915
22
9
Statement of assets; balance sheet
1915
22
10
Financial report, original and corrected copies
1915
22
11
Correspondence
1916 January-April
22
12
Correspondence
1916 May
22
13
Correspondence
1916 June
22
14
Correspondence
1916 July-September
22
15
Correspondence, transportation passes
1916 October-December
22
16
Lease contracts
1916
22
17
FJH's suggestions for motorizing transportation business in YNP
22
18
Proposed YW motor coach, blueline (White body, Hopkins) coachwork
1916
25
8
Minutes of a meeting of the concessionaire's of Yellowstone Park, with Secretary Albright
22
20
At a conference of certain concessionaires .... 1916 Dec 10
22
21
YNP "bookings corrected up to June 27th
22
22
Travel and misc. expenses
22
23
Finances
22
24
Payroll
22
25
Taxes
22
26
Daily route telegrams
23
1-30
Financial statement
24
1
Correspondence
24
2
Correspondence
24
3
Stock agreements and contracts
24
4
Special stockholder meeting minutes
24
5
Sales of YW misc. supplies
1917
24
6
Correspondence
1917
24
7
Correspondence
24
8
YW barn remodeling contract
24
9
Bills and inventories
24
10
MY taxes
24
11
YW taxes
24
12
YW taxes
24
13
Cheques to Robert Duff; YW Ranch condemnation
24
14
Correspondence
1917 January-February
24
15
Correspondence
1917 March-April
24
16
Correspondence
1917 May-June
24
17
Correspondence
1917 September-December
24
18
Correspondence
1918 January-June
24
19
YW taxes
24
20
Correspondence
1918
24
21
Special use permit
24
22
YW taxes
24
23
Special use permit
24
24
Equipment sales
24
25
Tax correspondence
24
26
MY taxes
24
27
MY taxes
24
28
YW building lease
24
29
New York Central Railroad bill
24
30
Special use permit
24
31
MY dissolution papers and taxes
24
31
YW dissolution papers and taxes
24
32
Montana & Yellowstone Park Transfer Co. dissolution papers
24
33
Haynes Palace Studio Car floor plan (blueline drawing)
25
1
YNP Ground lease
25
2
Cody-Sylvan Pass Motor Company
5
Cody Gateway to Yellowstone Park Memorandum for Year 1916.
22
27
Deposition of Mr. Kelly of White [Motor] Co regarding autos in Yellowstone Park
22
28
Correspondence
22
29
Correspondence
22
30
Stockholders' meeting minutes
22
31
Financial statements and audit
22
32