Hayden Survey Party

Summary

This image was taken as part of the Hayden Survey of western Wyoming and Colorado, which later led to the formation of the U.S. Geological Surveys of the Territories within the Department of the Interior. William Henry Jackson, then a budding photographer, took thousands of photographs for the Hayden Survey, most notably the first images of the headwaters of the Yellowstone River. Pictured is the survey group, most of them sitting around an object in Yellowstone Park, at the Lower Geyser Basin. Numbers identify people in the image: 1. Gannett; 2. Peale; 3. Savage; 4. [no name]; 5. William Henry Holmes; 6. Bingham; 7. Hovey; 8. Wakefield; 9. Sloane; 10. Brown; 11. William Logan.

Subject

• Hayden, F. V (Ferdinand Vandeveer) 1829-1887
• Gannett, Henry 1846-1914
• Peale, A. C (Albert Charles) 1849-1914
• Savage, Joseph
• Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933
• Bingham, A. E
• Hovey, Stephan
• Wakefield, E. B (Edmund Burritt) 1846-1921
• Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) 1851-1940
• Brown, A. E
• Logan, William B
• Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)

Notes

• See also number SIA_007177_B14_F04_I01
• See also number SPI_1493

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2018-111380

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

1872

Restrictions & Rights

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• No Copyright - United States

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Geology
• Geologists

Place

• Yellowstone National Park
• Yellowstone River

Form/Genre

Photographs

Local number

SIA RU007177 [SIA2018-111380]

Physical description

Albumen prints

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