13063. Giant Geyser, Yellowstone National Park.
[St. Paul, Minnesota]: Haynes, Inc., [1913]. Photograph. Black and white photograph [9.25" x 7.25"] printed on white matte photo stock [10" x 8"]. The Haynes, Inc. number and title is stamped in ink on the reverse. A bit of edgewear (not affecting image) and few small smudges on the reverse. Clear, sharp, and nicely contrasted image. Near Fine. Item #70768
A beautifully composed and exposed photograph, a straight-on view of "The Giant" Upper Basin Geyser in action and towering above the surrounding landscape.
"'The Giant' has a rugged crater, ten feet in diameter on the outside, with an irregular orifice five or six feet in diameter. It discharges a vast body of water, and the only time we saw it in eruption the flow of water in a column five feet in diameter, and one hundred and forty feet in vertical height, continued uninterruptedly for nearly three hours. The crater resembles a miniature model of the Coliseum" (N. P. Langford, 1870).
"Jack Ellis Haynes was born in Fargo, ND on September 27, 1884, to photographer F. Jay Haynes and Lily Snyder Haynes. He was the youngest of three children. Jack began working in his family's photography business in St. Paul, MN at a young age and joined his father for summers in Yellowstone starting in 1897. Jack Ellis Haynes succeeded his father the family photography business eventually taking ownership of the Haynes Yellowstone National Park businesses in 1915" (Archives West: https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/).
Price: $100.00