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One of the enduring mysteries of Yellowstone National Park is how little is known of the men who actually built the many hotels and Old Faithful Inn. This was brought to my attention when my family and I visited the park in July 2016. We often would wander over to the majestic Old Faithful Inn and sit in the upper balcony. One after noon I noticed a guide with a group of tourists and heard him emphasizing the amazing woodwork. When the group departed,...
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Images of a trip (or trips) to Yellowstone National Park circa 1917 by August and Gertrude Godina. __The collection consists of 64 black and white photographic prints originally housed in a photograph album but since removed and affixed to an acid-free paper support. The images document Yellowstone National Park in the transitional era between the introduction of the automobile and the transfer of administration from the military to the newly formed...
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This collection contains materials related to the operations of Yellowstone National Park?s history program, consisting mainly of records from the Historian?s Office. Activities related to the history program include historical research; historic buildings preservation, management, and maintenance; cultural landscape research; and museum collection management. Researchers may find these records valuable when studying how Haines (and other park historians)...
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The scrapbook consists of photographs, menus, tickets, receipts, travel documents, brochures, pamphlets, and timetables. The items are pasted onto beige construction paper and bound between red vinyl boards with the word "Scrapbook" in gilt on the cover. The scrapbook may have been created at a later date given the materials in the book as well as the non-chronological arrangement of the materials. The scrapbook begins with a trip to Yellowstone National...
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The collection consists of diaries of a trip through Yellowstone National Park in 1896 by Eva K. Moger and her family. The collection contains two versions of the same diary describing a wagon trip through Yellowstone National Park in 1896. The first diary is a small pocket-sized notebook with a canvas cover inscribed "Memorandum" and is recorded in pencil. The second diary exists only in photocopy format, but it appears to be recorded in a larger...
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Scrapbook of a trip by rail to Yellowstone National Park and the Canadian Rockies by Dorothy and Harry B. Goodspeed in 1937. The scrapbook consists of 11 loose pages of manila construction paper with photographs and ephemera affixed with glue. Contents of the scrapbook include commercial photographs and postcards, personal snapshots, images clipped from magazines, small publications, and ephemera. The commercial photographs and postcards, primarily...
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Photograph album of a camping trip by automobile to Yellowstone National Park, ca. 1920, by William Elmer Rounds. The collection consists of well labeled, black and white photographs affixed on black construction paper with photograph corners. The album covers appear to be adhesive shelf paper made to look like wood grain, probably added at a later date. The album depicts a camping trip through Yellowstone National Park, beginning at the West Entrance,...
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Scrapbook of a trip of the western U.S. by rail in 1923, including a visit to Yellowstone National Park. The scrapbook is a large volume with a green cloth binding embossed with black floral design and the words "Scrap Book". The scrapbook includes text and images cut from promotional brochures, commercial photographs, menus, maps, timetables, newsclippings, poems, and handbills. While most items are pasted to the pages, there are a few loose materials...
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This collection contains material related to the construction and maintenance functions of Yellowstone National Park from 1918 to the present. Through the years the Park has worked cooperatively with the Bureau of Public Roads, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Emergency Conservation Work Program, the Public Works Program, private contractors, Park concessioners, and many other state and federal agencies in completing a wide variety of projects...
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One scrapbook and 10 loose black and white prints. The prints were most likely not part of the album. Cecilia Engel created the scrapbook regarding her trip with friends to the Western United States, August 6-23, 1924. The majority of the scrapbook is about the Yellowstone Park Camps Co. (YPCC) camp facilities in Yellowstone National Park. __Cecilia created a scrapbook of the trip with photographs, descriptions, poems, songs, and collected images...
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The collection consists of two photograph albums dated 1919 and 1924 as well as a song book and baggage sticker from 1924. The 1919 album has olive cloth covers, black paper pages with images inserted through corner slits, and is bound with a cloth ribbon or shoelace. The 1924 album has black leather covers, black paper pages with images affixed by small pieces of tape at the corners, and a 3-ring metal binding. Both albums include detailed captions....
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The collection consists of records pertaining to G. L. Henderson and his family including his son and daughter-in-law, Walter J. and Eva Fitzgerald, as well as daughters and sons-in-law, Jennie and George Ash, Mary and Henry Klamer, and Barbara and Alexander Lyall. The records consist of biographical and genealogical materials, business records, correspondence, writings, and ephemera. The biographical and genealogical materials detail the history...
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A collection of small manuscripts, photographs, and other ephemera which document the classic trip to Yellowstone National Park over time. __This collection was created by the Archives to house small groups of materials with related content: trips or vacations to Yellowstone National Park. The collection includes letters, narratives, photographs, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and collectible materials such as vehicle licenses, stickers, brochures,...