Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 [graphic] : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches sent whilst en route

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104 albumen photographs document President Chester A. Arthur's excursion through Northwestern Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park in August of 1883. Views along the Presidential party's route include Fort Washakie; the Wind River Valley; the Snake River Valley; Gros Ventre River; the Grand Tetons and Gros Ventre range. Images of Yellowstone show geysers; waterfalls; Yellowstone Lake; Mammoth Hot Springs; and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Photographs also depict camp sites along the route; some portraits of Shoshoni and Arapaho Indians; two portraits of the President with members of his party.

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Photographs bear original captions. Album also includes 43 numbered interleaves reproducing Associated Press coverage of the trip.
"The party: Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States; Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War; Philip H. Sheridan, Lieutenant General; George G. Vest, United States Senator; Dan G. Rollins, Surrogate of New York; Anson Stager, Brigadier General, United States Volunteers; Jno. Schuyler Crosby, Governor of Montana; M.V. Sheridan, Lieutenant Colonel and Military Secretary; James F. Gregory, Lieutenant Colonel and Aide-de-Camp; W.P. Clark, Captain, Second Cavalry, Acting Aide-de-Camp; W.H. Forwood, Surgeon, United States Army; Geo. G. Vest, Jr., Saint Louis, Missouri; Escort: Troop G, Fifth Cavalry, Captain E.M. Hayes, Lieutenant H. DeH. Waite"--title page.
Prints measure 16 x 22 cm. and 10 x 7.5 cm. and are mounted on card stock.
Photographs taken by Frank Jay Haynes, official photographer for the trip.

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WA copy acquired in the mid to early 1960s per evidence of original catalogue card.