Water Color Photographs Colored from Nature. Yellowstone National Park.

No. 8 in a series of 12 photographs, "Hot Spring Cone, Yellowstone Lake." Hand-tinted albumen print, 5 x 7.75 inches, in publisher's embossed mat with series label on verso, 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Generally crumbly with chipping to corners and creases to mat, starting to split at left corner. Photograph unmarred, VG-. An interesting image, unusual in featuring a chef catching fish, promoting the natural beauty and fresh cuisine awaiting prospective tourists.

F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921) was a studio photographer from the North Dakota Territory commissioned in 1876 to photograph along the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad, initially working from a railroad car outfitted as a darkroom and studio. He began photographing Yellowstone in 1882, and in 1884 opened a studio gallery there, selling photographs of the park's scenery to tourists.