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Haynes Family photographs, 1866-1969

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Haynes family
Title
Haynes Family photographs
Dates
1866-1969 (inclusive)
Quantity
8.2 linear feet
Collection Number
1507, Collection 1507 (collection)
Summary
The Haynes Family Photographs are comprised of photographs taken by F. Jay Haynes (FJH), Jack Ellis Haynes (JEH), and others during the period 1866-1969. The photographs are portraits, candid snapshots, Haynes Inc. (HInc), Haynes Picture Shops (HPS), and Haynes Studios Inc. (HSInc) photographs, and other images covering a very diverse subject matter. The vast majority of the photographs are concerned with friends and family of the of the Haynes (FJH and JEH) and Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Additionally, there are also "Cabinet and Boudoir" photographs taken by FJH as the official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR) and many photographs, numbered and unnumbered, in Haynes family photo albums. Additional images include artwork prepared for Haynes brochures, artwork by illustrator Fritz Schlanze, photos of paintings by W.H. Jackson, an extensive collection of reproductions of paintings by C.M. Russell sold by HInc and HPS in YNP, and other artwork and photographs related to the area surrounding YNP and the West in general.
Repository
Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
Collection materials are in English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Biographical Note

Jack E. Haynes was born to photographer F. Jay Haynes and Lily Snyder Haynes at Fargo, N.D., September 27, 1884, months after his father had been granted his first concession license to operate a photography studio in Yellowstone National Park. The last of the Haynes' three children, JEH nonetheless became his father's heir in the family business. Sometime in the 1910s Jack married his first wife, Margaret Larkin. Little is known about the marriage other than the date of divorce in late March 1930. A week later, April 10, 1930, Jack married Isabel Nauerth, a former employee of the Yellowstone Park Hotel Company and for three years the manager of Roosevelt Lodge. In 1931 the couple had their only child, Lida Marie Haynes. Lida and three friends were killed in an automobile accident in 1952 south of Livingston, Montana. Jack served as executor to for the estates of his father in 1921, mother in 1928, and brother George. Upon F. Jay Haynes' death Jack inherited the Haynes studio business outside of Yellowstone, together with his father's archive of negatives shot over forty years of photography across the northern U.S.

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Content Description

The Haynes Family Photographs are comprised of over five thousand photographs taken by F. Jay Haynes (FJH), Jack Ellis Haynes (JEH), and others during the period 1866-1969. The photographs are portraits, candid snapshots, Haynes Inc. (HInc), Haynes Picture Shops (HPS), and Haynes Studios Inc. (HSInc) photographs, and other images covering a very diverse subject matter. The vast majority of the photographs are concerned with friends and family of the of the Haynes (FJH and JEH) and Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Additionally, there are also "Cabinet and Boudoir" photographs taken by FJH as the official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR) and many photographs, numbered and unnumbered, in Haynes family photo albums. Additional images include artwork prepared for Haynes brochures, artwork by illustrator Fritz Schlanze, photos of paintings by W.H. Jackson, an extensive collection of reproductions of paintings by C.M. Russell sold by HInc and HPS in YNP, and other artwork and photographs related to the area surrounding YNP and the West in general.

The Haynes Family photographs are obviously very focused on the subject of YNP. This is due to the position held by FJH, JEH, and the various Haynes business ventures as the official photographers for YNP. As a result of this close relationship with YNP, a pictorial history of changes in the Park's architecture, society, culture, transportation, and man's relationships to nature and wildlife can be observed in the pictures. The "Cabinet and Boudoir" photographs of FJH and others show the cities, wilderness, and workers of the West while many of the commercial photographs from HInc and HPS focus on scenery and the supposedly tame animals in YNP.

In the production of this finding aid, attempts have been made to confront issues created in an earlier preliminary inventory of the materials. The organization of the collection remains largely intact, however, when applicable, the content of multiple folders has been combined with the intent to create a more coherent representation of the pertinent subject matter. The entire collection is grouped into series by origin, then divided generally by family member or focus, then (as is noted on the Folder titles) are arranged roughly chronologically or by genre. Each photo is numbered sequentially, including through the photo albums. To minimize preservation problems, for storage economy, and to ease retrieval large items have been removed from their frames. A substantial number of photos and the smaller framed items were received in steel storage boxes, fabricated for Isabel Haynes for her manuscript materials. These pictures are kept together with those removed from Collection 1504, the Jack Ellis Haynes and Haynes Inc. Papers, in series 2, Yellowstone National Park. It is apparent that many of the photographs in the Haynes Family Series have been previously mounted in and removed from albums. The original placement of these photos at the beginning of Series 5, Photograph Albums, indicates that IMH was beginning to disassemble the family albums. Note that within the albums there is substantial duplication of images. Descriptions found in the inventory are supplied by the processor unless quoted. Many identifications made by IMH are written to Lida and most seem to have been made from memory substantially later than when the pictures were taken. Not all notes on a photograph are transcribed to the inventory. In the Haynes Family Series, portraits clearly taken at the same sitting are generally identified together. Circa dates are supplied by the processor. Haynes' own negative numbers are recorded in brackets when available. File cards for negatives are kept with negatives.

During the composition of this finding aid, attempts have been made to improve the organization of the preliminary inventory. These attempts include renaming Series and Subseries titles. Additionally, expanded descriptions of these sections have been created with the intent of aiding the researcher. The researcher is advised that photos from a variety of subject areas relating to both the Haynes Family and the YNP Series exist in the Oversized Photos Series. The presence of this series is two-fold: 1) to maintain the original order of the photographs in this collection, and 2) to separate photographs intended for framing from those meant to be placed in albums or to be used by the various Haynes commercial interests.

Other issues which may be of concern include the identification system used, disjointed order in subject matter, and comments on the individual Series and Subject groups. The original numbering system of photographs from the preliminary inventory has been retained. This system extends through the entirety of the collection with the exception of bound photograph albums which are identified with the code "Bk n", where n is the number of the bound album within that group. Occasionally the order of subjects within a given series is unclear due to a lack of relevance between consecutively numbered groups of photographs in portions of the collection. While it might seem preferable to renumber or otherwise rearrange individual images of the collection, this operation would destroy whatever evidential value may exist in the original order of the images as arranged by Isabel Haynes. Individual series scope and content notes have been newly composed since the processor in charge of the preliminary inventory failed to include series descriptions or identify any changes he may have made in the original order imposed on these photos. Attempts have been made to interpret the logic of the original arrangement from the preliminary inventory, but these descriptions have been based on observations and research made several years after the inventory was composed and may vary from the intent of the original processor.

This "Virtual Finding Aid" was created with the financial assistance of the Montanaiana Regrant Program of the Montana Library Network.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The copyright for all professional images produced by the Haynes commercial photographic studios resides with the Montana Historical Society, which also hold the archival copies of those images. Permission to reproduce any given image may have to be obtained from the Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.

Preferred Citation

[Creator Name], [Date of Creation], [Brief Description of Object], Folder [#], Box [#], [Collection Name], [Collection #], Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Series 1 Haynes Family, 1878-1965

Subseries 1 - F. Jay Haynes Family, 1878-circa 1925

Subseries 2 - Nauerth Family, 1885-1911

Subseries 3 - Jack E. Haynes, 1885-1960

Subseries 4 - Isabel M. Haynes, 1900-circa 1930

Subseries 5 - Lida Haynes, 1932-1954

Subseries 6 - Haynes Family, 1929-1961

Subseries 7 - Haynes' Friends, circa 1920-circa 1965

Series 2 Yellowstone National Park, 1866-1963

Subseries 1 - YNP Photographs, 1883-1963

Subseries 2 - Greater Yellowstone Area and the "West", 1866-circa 1960

Subseries 3 - Collection 1504 Separated Photographs, 1882-1963

Subseries 4 - Unnamed Features in YNP, undated

Series 3 Oversized Photographs, 1884-1961

Subseries 1 - Haynes Family and Friends, 1890-1961

Subseries 2 - Other Topics, 1884-1961

Series 4 Pictorial Items, circa1870-1920

Subseries 1 - Detroit Photographic Company chromolithographs, circa 1870-circa 1910

Subseries 2 - Prints, Haynes and others, 1870-1920

Subseries 3 - Charles M. Russell reproductions, undated

Subseries 4 - Haynes waterfall prints, hand-tinted, undated

Subseries 5 - F. Jay Haynes Cabinet and Boudoir Photographs, circa1883-

Series 5 Photograph Albums, 1890-1969

Subseries 1 - Disbound Albums, circa 1905-circa 1952

Subseries 2 - Bound Albums, 1890-1969

Acquisition Information

Donated by Isabel Haynes and the Haynes Foundation in 1977.

Processing Note

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 2011 March 14.In 2025, a box of Haynes glass lantern slides found in the stacks (which appears to have been purchased from a dealer) was added.

Related Materials

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: F. Jay Haynes papers, 1870-1922 (1500) 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)

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)

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Richard Saunders. Additional edits by Kim Allen Scott, 2011. Updated by Heather Mulliner, 2022. Updated by Jodi Allison-Bunnell
2025

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