Images

An ash plume rises from the summit crater of Parícutin sometime during 1946-48. A thick ash deposit covers the foreground. An estimated 4,500 cattle and 550 horses died during the heavy ashfall in the early months of the eruption, devastating the local people who depended on the animals for food, plowing, and transportation.

Beryl Spring is a hydrothermal area in some restrictive topography! The road from Norris Geyser Basin to Madison Junction follows the Gibbon River through a tight valley. With not much of a choice, the road threads between the river and Beryl Spring over some exceedingly hot ground.

The Snake River flowing below the Teton Range. Photo by Ansel Adams, 1942, public domain, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/519904.

The interior of the Hamilton bathhouse in 1939.

Visitors observing Beryl Spring from the side of the road in 1923, prior to the construction that breached its sinter cap and altered the spring’s characteristics. From the National Park Service archives, retrieved by M.A. Bellingham.

Early visitors at Handkerchief Pool, Black Sand Basin, around 1923.

Old Faithful Inn, swimming pool, and store, with Beehive Geyser in the foreground, in 1921.

The Fountain Hotel with Leather Pool in the foreground and the hot water pipe visible in the meadow. Photo by JP Clum Lantern. Date unknown. Public domain in YELL photo archives (https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/history/1872_1918/structures/Page.htm).

Photo of Dr. Hermon Schlundt and a park ranger sampling a pool in Norris Geyser Basin for radium. The description of the photo states that this was the site where the radioactive element thorium was first discovered in the United States. Plate IIIB from Schlundt and Moore, 1909 (USGS Bulletin 395).

Historic colorized photograph of Old Faithful geyser and Old Faithful Inn. Originally, the shingle roofing of the Old Faithful Inn was painted red with a material thought to be a fire retardant. Today, the shingles have a natural wood finish.

Newspaper clipping from the Billings Weekly Gazette, December 21, 1900, detailing possible reasons for the disappearance of Leroy R. Piper on July 30, 1900 (source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20351311/lr-piper-still-missing-relatives-of/).

The Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps pose on Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park. Pvt. John Findley, front left, was the primary bicycle mechanic for the unit, and so carried a heavy toolbox attached to his handlebars.  Photo by F.

The Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps walk their cycles up Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park. Photo by F. Jay Haynes, 1896.  Montana Historical Society Research Center, Haynes Foundation Photograph Collection, H-3615. Used with permission from the Montana Historical Society.

The Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps ride on an inactive portion of Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park. Photo by F. Jay Haynes, 1896.  Montana Historical Society Research Center, Haynes Foundation Photograph Collection, H-3616. Used with permission from the Montana Historical Society.

Sapphire Pool in Biscuit Basin, Yellowstone National Park, photographed by Frank Jay Haynes in about 1887. Bulbous-shaped geyserite knobs surrounding the pool reminded the photographer of biscuits. Haynes was the official Yellowstone National Park photographer at the time.  

Geological map of Yellowstone National Park based on work by William Henry Holmes in 1878 as part of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden’s United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, with topography mapped by Henry Gannett and triangulation by Allen David Wilson.  From the Twelfth Annual Re

Photo of Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (Chief Joseph) taken in November 1877 by O.S. Goff in Bismarck.  From Wikipedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chief_Joseph-1877.jpg).

Painting of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by artist Thomas Moran, who was part of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871.  Painting from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Painting by Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930), Yellowstone Lake, 1871, watercolor (Phoenix Art Museum).  The view is from northern Yellowstone Lake looking to the south.  In the foreground, one can see the Annie in the northern lake and the three largest of the lake’s islands: Stevenson Island, with Frank Island and the smaller Dot

Henry Elliott’s 1871 map of Yellowstone Lake (https://hdylake.org/about/history-of-mapping-yellowstone-lake/). The headwaters of the Snake River, Upper Valley of the Yellowstone River, and Pelican River are shown.

Geologist Ferdinand Hayden at work with a rock hammer.  USGS photo by William Henry Jackson, 1870.