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Frank Jay Haynes Yellowstone National Park Camera

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD
Frank Jay Haynes Yellowstone National Park Camera
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This lot is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own a piece of American History. Frank Jay Haynes used this camera to document and photograph the American West. It bears his brass tag which reads Haynes Equipment Corporation, Rapid Photographic Apparatus, St. Paul Minnesota. This camera resided in his Yellowstone National Park Studio in Montana. After his death this camera and the following lot were sold to a private collector in Jackson Hole Wyoming. These items have sat dormant in storage for nearly 3 decades. This grouping is of Institutional Grade, and would be the highlight of any Western Photography collection. Frank Jay Haynes (October 28, 1853 – March 10, 1921), known as F. Jay or the Professor to almost all who knew him, was a professional photographer, publisher, and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through photographs the settlement and early history of the great Northwest. He became both the official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railway and of Yellowstone National Park as well as operating early transportation concessions in the park. His photographs were widely published in articles, journals, books and turned into stereographs, and postcards in the late 19th and early 20th century.