APPRAISER COMMENTS:

This appears to be a pair of tinted silver print photographs of Yellowstone National Park, by Frank Jay Haynes, circa the turn of last century. Good condition, some fading and small crease to one photograph. Frank Jay Haynes [1853-1921], often called the "Pioneer photographer of the old west," opened his first studio in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1876 and in 1879, he opened a larger studio in Fargo. Haynes was the official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railroad and traveled throughout the northwest taking promotional photographs for the railroad. Haynes even had his own railroad car, called Haynes Studio from 1885-1905. He is remembered in the history of photography primarily for his many early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. He obtained a license to operate a photographic concession in the Park at Mammoth Hot Springs. Haynes opened The Log Cabin Studio which served Yellowstone Park for many years selling photos to visiting tourists. He moved his studio to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1889 and traveled throughout the West and Alaska earning the reputation as one of the West's finest early photographers. In addition to 2,400 Stereoviews, Haynes sold literally thousands of Cabinet Cards, individual and family portraits, and of course hand-colored photographs. Most of Haynes hand-colored photographs were Yellowstone Park images sold to park visitors and tourists. Haynes Yellowstone images usually include Old Faithful and other geysers, Great Falls, Lower Falls, and other magnificent views throughout Yellowstone Park. More often than not Hayes pictures were impressed with the "Haynes" name rather than signed in pencil or pen. Usually "Haynes, Yellowstone Park" or "Haynes Studio, St Paul" will be impressed in small letters, either into the image itself, or into the matting. F Jay Haynes retired in 1916, and died in 1921. His son, Jack Ellis Haynes, was also a photographer and continued the family's business. Although Jack Ellis Haynes continued to sell a limited number of hand-colored photographs, most of his work consisted of machined-produced prints of his father's works. This included postcards, travel brochures, Yellowstone Travel Books, etc. The pictures of Jack Ellis Haynes are generally not as collectible as those of his father.

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