Members of the 1870 U.S. government survey of the Yellowstone River and Rocky Mountains led by Ferdinand Hayden (also known as the "Hayden Geological Survey")
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintMembers of the 1870 U.S. government survey of the Yellowstone River and Rocky Mountains led by Ferdinand Hayden (also known as the "Hayden Geological Survey"). Standing left to right: John "Potato John" Raymond and "Val," cooks; Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), landscape painter; Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930), artist; James Stevenson (1840-1888), assistant; Henry D. Schmidt, naturalist; E. Campbell Carrington, zoologist; L. A. Bartlett, general assistant; William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), photographer. Sitting left to right: C. S. Turnbull, secretary; J. H. Beaman, meteorologist; Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829-1887), geologist in charge; Cyrus Thomas (1825-1910), agriculturist; Raphael, hunter; A. L. Ford, mineralogist. The Library of Congress copy of this photograph is captioned "A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden's camp of the U.S. Geological and Geophysical Survey, Red Buttes, Wyoming Territory, August 24, 1870."
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4325
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1870
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4325]
Gelatin silver prints