Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs

Cleveland Museum of Art

Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs

Frank Jay Haynes

Date
c. late 1880s
Medium
albumen print from glass negative
Culture
America
Department
Photography
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Frank Jay Haynes was a photographer of life in the American West and the early days of Yellowstone National Park. Arriving in Yellowstone in the 1880s, he accompanied expeditions into the park, serving as official photographer. From canyon bottoms to mountain peaks, Haynes took his cameras to locations where he could capture unique and artistic views. In this photograph, he documented the immense space of the landscape, made particularly apparent by the inclusion of a small figure standing on the cliff at the right.

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