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Timeless Treasures: 19th C. Native, Western Photographs & French Elegance

Sat, Sep 13, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Join us Saturday, September 13th at 9am MT in Bozeman, MT for Timeless Treasures: 19th C. Native, Western Photographs & French Elegance. This exceptional auction features a remarkable collection of 19th-century Native American artifacts, rare Western photography by Haynes, Huffman, and other Montana photographers, and an impressive selection of 18th-century French furniture. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to acquire historic and elegant treasures. Browse the full catalog at live.naabid.com
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Lot 419

Haynes Yellowstone Photographs and Ephemera

Estimate: $400 - $800
Starting Bid
$125

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For your consideration are Original F. J. Haynes photographs and ephemera of Yellowstone National Park, circa 1930s. The photographs are are all large format photographs of Yellowstone National Park and are all stamped with the Haynes hallmark. Also included are cancelled checks with Jack Haynes signature and Haynes Store envelopes for Jo Mora maps. Frank Jay Haynes, 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, and books, and turned into stereogrpahs and postcards in the late 19th and early 20th century. Jack, like his father, was a photographer, and inherited the family business and continued as the official Yellowstone National Park photographer until his death in 1962. In 1921, when Frank died, Jack also inherited the physical studio outside of Yellowstone National Park and Frank’s archive of YNP photo negatives. Jo Mora was one of the foremost pictorial mapmakers of the 20th century, known for depicting places in the West such Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon National Parks; the Monterey Peninsula; San Diego; and Carmel-by-the-Sea. Today his maps are highly prized by collectors, with a Swann Auction Galleries 2023 auction sale for "The Seventeen Mile Drive" Carmel-by-the -Sea over $4500.00. The five (5) photographs are numbered and titled, "24084 Chimney Rock, Cody Road", "24272 Mule Deer Fawn, Yellowstone Park", "35388 Overhanging Cliff, Yellowstone Park", "35961 Upper Fall of the Yellowstone, Y. N. P." and "37301C Bighorn, Yellostone National Park". All are also marked, "Haynes Inc." The five (5) envelopes are marked at the top left corner, "Haynes Inc. Yellowstone Park Wyoming". The five (5) cancelled checks are marked, "Haynes Picture Shops, Inc. The FIrst National Bank of St. Paul St. Paul, Minnesota" and dated September 1930. Photographs show good condition overall with little to no wear present and no signs of obvious damage present. The photos each measure 8"W x 10"L approximately. Envelopes are also in good condition with no wear, age tanning. Each measures 8.5"W x 11.25"L. Cancelled checks measure 3.75"W x 8.5"L. Collective weight is U6.

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